#escapes2021 – Agenda

IMG loghi UNIMI, Escapes, AMM, ITHACA

#escapes2021 International Online Conference

Mediterranean Crossings:
Refusal and Resistance in Uncertain Times

University of Milan, 24 – 26 June 2021


Thursday 24 June 2021

Friday 25 June 2021

Saturday 26 June 2021

From 17 to 27 June 2021

  • FILM PLATFORM

All times are in Central Europe Summer Time CEST (GMT + 2)

Thursday 24 June 2021


10:00 AM -1:00 PM Opening Plenary
Chair: Monica Massari (University of Milan)

  • 10:00 AM – 10:15 AM Welcome Remarks
    Elio Franzini, Rector of the University of Milan
    Ilaria Viarengo, Director of the Department of International, Legal and Historical-Political Studies, University of Milan
    Luca Maria Bianchi, Director of the Department of Philosophy Piero Martinetti
    Luca Ciabarri, Escapes, University of Milan
  • 10:15 AM -10:30 AM Introduction on the Conference’s aims, vision and proposed approach
    Monica Massari (University of Milan)
  • 10:30 AM – 1:00 PM How to narrate? Storytelling and auto-ethnography
    – Screening of “Waiting” (17:09 min., 2020, by Shahram Khosravi and Dagmawi Yimer)
    – Reading by Ubah Cristina Ali Farah
    – Screening of the film’s trailer “Chauka Please Tell Us The Time” (Arash Kamali Sarvestani, Behrouz Boochani)
    – A conversation of Alessandro Triulzi (AMM – Archive of Migrant Memories) with Ubah Cristina Ali Farah (writer, poet, performer, social activist), Behrouz Boochani (University of Canterbury (NZ)/University of New South Wales), Shahram Khosravi (Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University), Omid Tofighian (University of New South Wales/University of Sydney) and Dagmawi Yimer (filmmaker)
    – Questions and discussion

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2:30 PM – 4:30 PM

PANEL 4A Session 1 (Ita)

I dilemmi dell’umanitarismo tra diritto, politiche e pratiche
Etiche e politiche dell’attivismo

Convenors: Luca Ciabarri (University of Milan), Barbara Pinelli (Roma Tre University)

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PANEL 6 (Eng)

Border crossings, memories and opacity: potentials and limits of participatory audio-visual experiences

Convenor: Gianluca Gatta (AMM – Archive of Migrant Memories)

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5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

PANEL 4A Session 2 (Ita)

I dilemmi dell’umanitarismo tra diritto, politiche e pratiche
Etiche e politiche dell’attivismo

Convenors: Luca Ciabarri (University of Milan), Barbara Pinelli (Roma Tre University)

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PANEL 5 (Eng)

Follow the money: migration industry, refugees’ unpaid labour and value extraction

Convenors: Martina Tazzioli (Goldsmiths, University of London), Ana Valdivia (King’s College)

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Friday 25 June 2021


9:00 AM -11:00 AM

PANEL 8 (Eng)

The implementation of the EU Hotspot Approach in the Mediterranean Borderscape: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Infrastructure of Migration Management

Convenor: Chiara Pagano (University of Bologna)
Chairs: Bilgin Ayata (University of Graz), Kenny Cupers (University of Basel)

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PANEL 4B Session 1 (Ita)

I dilemmi dell’umanitarismo tra diritto, politiche e pratiche
Razzializzazione, classe, genere e diritti

Convenors: Luca Ciabarri (University of Milan), Barbara Pinelli (Roma Tre University)

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11:30 AM – 1:30 PM

PANEL 1 (Eng)

Ethical dilemmas in migration research: beyond protocols and procedures towards a politics of migrants’ voice

Chairs: Monica Massari (University of Milan) and Ombretta Ingrascì (University of Milan)

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PANEL 4B Session 2 (Ita)

I dilemmi dell’umanitarismo tra diritto, politiche e pratiche
Razzializzazione, classe, genere e diritti

Convenors: Luca Ciabarri (University of Milan), Barbara Pinelli (Roma Tre University)

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2:30 PM – 4:30 PM

PANEL 2 (Ita)

2011-2021: dieci anni di accoglienza di richiedenti asilo e rifugiati in Italia

Convenors: Davide Biffi (University of Milano-Bicocca), Emanuela Dal Zotto (University of Pavia)

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PANEL 3 (Eng)

Collecting memories of solidarity on and beyond Mediterranean crossings

Convenors: Amira Ahmed (American University of Cairo), Rachel Ibreck (Goldsmiths, University of London), Fatma Raach (University of Jendouba)

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5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Roundtable (Eng)

The use of law in the struggles for freedom of movement: opportunity or limitation?

Coordinated by Elena Fontanari (University of Milan), Lucia Gennari (ASGI), Carlo Caprioglio (Roma Tre University), Francesco Ferri (ASGI)

With the participation of: Francesca Esposito (Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford), Fiorenza Picozza (Institute of Geography UNAM, Mexico), Enrica Rigo (Roma Tre University), Maurice Stierl (Warwick University of London / Alarm Phone)

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Saturday 26 June 2021


10:00 AM – 1:00 PM Closing Plenary

Disquieting memories and hidden archives in and across a postcolonial sea

Chair: Luca Ciabarri (University of Milan)

  • 10:00 AM – 10:15 AM Introduction and presentation of the speakers
    Gianluca Gatta (AMM – Archive of Migrant Memories)
  • 10:15 AM – 1:00 PM
    Disquieting archives and uncertain narratives
    Iain Chambers (University of Naples “L’Orientale”)
    – Screening of “All’aldilàdiqua” (30:00 min, by Alessandra Cianelli and Opher Thomson)
    – A conversation of Liliana Ellena (BABE – European University Institute) with Alessandra Cianelli (artist and writer)
    – Questions and discussion
    – Closing speech: Jean-Pierre Cassarino (College of Europe, Natolin Campus)

Closing plenary .pdf

FILM PLATFORM

From 17 to 27 June 2021 a list of films – directed by some of the speakers or related to the conference themes – will be available at: www.archiviomemoriemigranti.net/mc-filmplatform/

#escapes2021 flyer .pdf
#escapes2021 plenaries and panels program .pdf
Book of abstracts
#escapes2021
Call for papers
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