International conference – University of Freiburg, Switzerland – 2 March 2018
Conceptualized and organized by Francesca Falk (University of Freiburg) & infoclio.ch. In cooperation with the PhD-Program «Migration and Postcoloniality in Switzerland». What role does migration play in establishing new ways of living and in the organization of societies? Socio-political innovation means the emergence, implementation and dissemination of new social and political practices in different areas of society. The conference aims to identify and analyze such societal transformations, which happen in relation to migration, and to explain their underlying conditions.
| Programme | ||
|---|---|---|
| 9.00-9.05: | Welcoming address – Francesca Falk & Enrico Natale | |
| 9.05-9.15: | Introduction – Francesca Falk | |
| Session 1 | ||
| 9.15-9.45: | João de Athayde (Université Aix-Marseille): Les Agudàs, les esclaves du Brésil retournés au Bénin et au Togo: des innovations sociales à l’engagement dans la décolonisation | |
| 9.45-10.15: | Anna Badino (Université Aix-Marseille): Mobilité géographique et changements familiaux. Regards sur la société italienne des années 1960 au prisme des migrations internes | |
| Chair: Matthieu Gillabert | ||
| 10.15-10.45 | Coffee break | |
| Session 2 | ||
| 10.45-11.15: | Anna Di Giusto (Italian Society of Women Historians): Riace. The Laboratory of a New European Identity? | |
| 11.15-11.45: | Toni Ricciardi (Université de Genève): Brücken und Vermengungen. Migration und die italienische Kultur und Gesellschaft | |
| Chair: Sarah Baumann | ||
| 11.45-13.30 | Lunch break | |
| Keynote lecture | ||
| 13.30-14.15: | Michael Goebel (Freie Universität Berlin): Migration as a Motor of Change: Colonial Subjects in Interwar France and Decolonization | |
| Chair: Damir Skenderovic | ||
| Session 3 | ||
| 14.15-14.45: | Nancy L. Rhoden & Laurel Clark Shire (University of Western Ontario): Migration and Toleration: Opportunities for Redefining Insiders and Outsiders in Late Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia | |
| 14.45-15.15: | Israel Abayomi Saibu & Cecilia Titilayo Clement (Anchor University Lagos & Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria): The Dynamics of Migration and Societal Changes in African Cities: ‘Lagos from Farmstead and Fishing Settlement to a Mega City’ | |
| Chair: Pauline Milani | ||
| 15.15-15.30: | Coffee break | |
| Session 4 | ||
| 15.30-16.00: | Abduhalim Albakko (Koç University): The Syrian Community in Fatih and Mechanisms of Survival Employed by them | |
| 16.00-16.30: | Kijan Malte Espahangiz (Universität/ETH Zürich): Frauen in der Emigration. Partizipative Aktionsforschung und sozio-politische Innovation in der Schweiz der 1970er Jahre | |
| 16.30-17.00: | Sylvia Kafehsy (Universitätspital Zürich): The Politics of Trauma: Neue Lernformen im Umgang mit Gewaltbeziehungen | |
| Chair: Marina Richter | ||
| 17.00: | End of the conference & Aperitif | |
Registration Attendance is free. Please register by sending a mail to
info@infoclio.ch.
Location University of Freiburg, Switzerland (Avenue de l’Europe 20, 1700 Freiburg), room MIS 3016