The meeting “Lampedusa Laboratory” will take place on 21 July at 10 am at the “Area Marina Protetta” in Via dei Cameroni.
Below, you will find the list of the speakers. We would like to underline that the meeting is open to the public. Therefore, we welcome all contributions able to stimulate ideas around the Museum of Migrations in Lampedusa and to consolidate a transnational network of sharing migratory experiences in the Mediterranean area.
We invite you to attend the presentation of the exhibition related to the Museum of Migrations that will take place tomorrow at 12.30 am at the „Area Marina Protetta“ (more details: http://www.lampedusainfestival.com/programma2013/programma2013-en.html)
Speakers:
- Costanza Meli, Museum of Migrations of Lampedusa and Linosa, Associazione Isole http://www.progettoisole.org/
- Dagmawi Yimer, film director and vice-President of Archivio delle Memorie Migranti http://www.archiviomemoriemigranti.net/en
- Iain Chambers, Professor of Cultural and Post Colonial Studies at the Università Orientale di Napoli, coordinator of the international research group “Cultural Memory, Migrating Modernity and Museum Practises” http://magazine.unior.it/ita/content/postcolonial-museum-archivi-e-memorie-nellera-digitale-intervista-iain-chambers
- Silvana Carotenuto, Professor of Contemporary English Literature at the Università di Napoli L’Orientale, former Director of the Centre of Post Colonial Studies
- Simona Wrigth, Professor and Director of Italian Studies, The College of New Jersey, USA
- “Lampedusa’s Gaze: Messages from the Outpost of Europe”, Italica (forthcoming, 2014)
- Charles Heller, researcher and coordinator of the project “Watch the Med”, A Mapping Platform to Monitor the Maritime Borders of the EU for Violations of Migrants’ Rights, a collaboration between Boats4People and the Forensic Oceanography research project at Goldsmiths College (http://www.boats4people.org/index.php/en/watchtehemeden)
- Gianfranco Schiavone, lawyer, President of Associazione Studi Giuridici sull’Immigrazione http://asgi.wordpress.com/about/english-version/asgis-work-in-europe/
- Riccardo Noury, Amnesty International Italia
- Hagen Kopp, member of the network “Welcome to Europe” (http://w2eu.info/), Transborder-Map (http://www.noborder.org/)
- Fabrizio Coresi, anthropologist and vice-President of In Migrazione onlus http://www.inmigrazione.it/
- Francesco Vietti, anthropologist, member of the Scientific Board of “Centro Interculturale della Città di Torino” and member of the association “Viaggi Solidali”
- Gilles Reckinger, author of the book “Lampedusa: Begegnungen am Rande Europas”
- Carole Reckinger, peaceworker and photojournalist http://www.carolereckinger.co.uk/about/
AMM
Archivio delle memorie migranti
www.archiviomemoriemigranti.net