Join us for a talk about "Italy is Out" a book that explores the implications of Italian migration.
Tuesday 7 December, 3pm
Virtual Event

A conversation with the editors, writers, and the subjects of the portraits.
A round table with Mario Badagliacca

Introduced by Director ICI London Katia Pizzi

The internationally renowned documentary photographer in conversation with Professor Derek Duncan (University of St Andrews), Professor Charles Burdett (University of London) and Dr. Antonia Dawes (King’s College London).

The speakers will discuss the book Italy is Out recently published in the UK (Liverpool University Press) by Mario Badagliacca and Derek Duncan, fruit of the collaboration between the photographer and the research team of ‘Translationalizing Modern Languages: Mobility, Identity and Translation in Modern Italian Cultures’, a ARHC-funded project which explored the implications of Italian migration in a global perspective tracing cultural transformations across borders, generations and language.

Italy is Out is the fruit of the collaboration between Mario Badagliacca, the established documentary photographer, and the research team of Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Mobility, Identity and Translation in Modern Italian Cultures (2014-16). This ARHC-funded project explored the implications of Italian migration in a global perspective tracing cultural transformations across borders, generations, and language. Badagliacca visited some of the project’s key locations conducting interviews with Italians or people of Italian descent before photographing them in familiar locations. The subjects of the portraits were invited to bring along three objects representing their attachment to Italy. The sheer variety of the objects which appear alongside the portraits suggest the diversity of the migrant experience. Photographs shot in London, New York, and Buenos Aires feature members of the historical Italian community, but also first generation migrants in search of opportunities not offered at home. A similar complexity emerges, more unexpectedly, in the postcolonial Italian communities of Tunis and Addis Abeba. The photographs are accompanied by essays written by members of the research team and people who have in some way participated in the project. Fiction, autobiography and academic reflection sit side by side adding to Badagliacca’s multifaceted exploration of Italians abroad.

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Join us for a talk about "Italy is Out" a book that explores the implications of Italian migration.
Monday, November 29, 1:00 P.M.
Virtual Event

Hosted by Edvige Giunta and Marie Garcia.
A conversation with the editors, writers, and the subjects of the portraits.
Mario Badagliacca & Derek Duncan, Jacopo Colombini, Claudia Giunta, Edvige Giunta and Georgia Wall.
Italy is Out is the fruit of the collaboration between Mario Badagliacca, the established documentary photographer, and the research team of 'Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Mobility, Identity and Translation in Modern Italian Cultures' (2014-16). This ARHC-funded project explored the implications of Italian migration in a global perspective tracing cultural transformations across borders, generations, and language.

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contact egiunta@njcu.edu

Italy Is Out can be ordered HERE

Mario Badagliacca is a Sicilian photographer who documents human mobility, its culture and constraints. His book, co-edited by Derek Duncan (Department of Italian) Italy is out, contains a selection of portraits of Italians who have emigrated accompanied by a study of objects which they chose to represent their ongoing attachment to Italy. It also contains a series of short written pieces – historical, fictional, academic, autobiographical. Join them to discuss the multiple ways of responding to these very moving images. Mario and Derek will be joined in conversation by the Italian-American writer Edvige Giunta, featured in the book.

Wednesday, 10th November, Byre Theatre University of St. Andrews

Please Note: This is a live stream of a live in-person event at the Byre Theatre, which can be booked HERE.



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Shop in the UK: Liverpool University Press

Shop in Italy: IBS-La Feltrinelli

Shop in the USA and Canada: Oxford University Press

Moors of Sicily apre l'Edizione 2019 del Letterando in Fest a Sciacca

Claudia Durastanti è la prima di un quartetto di scrittrici, volutamente tutto al femminile e di alto livello, che segnerà il festival curato da Paola Caridi e che si aprirà ufficialmente giovedì pomeriggio. L’inaugurazione è alle 18:30 presso il Salone degli Specchi con l’apertura al pubblico della mostra fotografica “Mori di Sicilia/Moors of Sicily” di Mario Badagliacca, lavoro sviluppato in occasione della grande esibizione artistica dal titolo Resignification in scena allo ZAC di Palermo lo scorso anno durante Manifesta 12. Una mostra fotografica, quella di Badagliacca, dedicata alla rappresentazione del corpo nero, dei mori in Sicilia, rispecchiamento di una dimensione tutta mediterranea dell’Isola. A comporre la mostra saranno anche le teste di moro realizzate da Giuseppe Trapani, nome noto della ceramica artistica di Sciacca, in un gioco di rimandi tra tradizione e fotografia d’arte.

Inaugurazione 30 maggio 2019, ore 18.00 Salone degli Specchi, Badia Grande
Sciacca

Picturing Refugees
How Photographing Lost Objects Revealed Another Lens on Migration

by Megan Alcantar for The New Humanitarian
'On the Italian island of Lampedusa, it is clear that Italy’s political crisis over migration has much deeper roots that any government furor.
In recent weeks, Italy has shuts its ports to several NGO boats carrying people rescued at sea. Italy’s new government projects a defiant stance to voters and to Europe that Italy will no long shoulder responsibility for sea arrivals to the continent.
Lampedusa, which is closer to the coast of North Africa than to mainland Europe, has been the first port of call for boats of people seeking shelter in Europe for almost two decades. Over the years – including the peak arrivals of recent years and the latest drop in numbers – people arriving on Lampedusa have been held in official facilities while they undergo expedited asylum procedures and face potential deportation...' Read the full article here

On May 2-4, 2019 Bard College Berlin and the University of Potsdam invite you to the joint symposium “Shifting Frames: Migrant Children, Politics and History”, and the exhibit 'Fragments' by Mario Badagliacca.

This symposium will critically explore policies and cultural representations of child migrants--specifically but not only those labeled as "child refugees"--in the UK and its former colonies the USA, Canada, Australia and South Africa, with comparison to our location of Germany. It aims to think towards frames beyond humanitarianism for understanding and discussing child migration and seeks ways of connecting scholarly research with activism.

On May 2 at 18:00, Professor Jacqueline Bhabha from Harvard University will deliver the keynote lecture "The Human Rights of Child Migrants: An Unfinished Agenda." This public event will take place at the University of Potsdam, Campus Am Neuen Palais, House 8, Rm 0.64, and will be followed by reception.

May 3-4 will see presentations from scholars in addition to short film screenings and photography viewings, as well as a walking tour.

This event is organized by Prof. Dr. Kerry Bystrom, Bard College Berlin; Dr. Sunčica Klaas, University of Potsdam, and Dr. Carly McLaughlin, University of Potsdam.

This major funders of this event are the Thyssen Foundation, the Universitätsgesellschaft Potsdam e.V. and the University of Potsdam, with additional support from Bard College Berlin and AlNatura.

Date & time: May 2-4, 2019
Venue: University of Potsdam, Campus Am Neuen Palais

Location: University of Potsdam, Campus Am Neuen Palais

Frammenti, an exhibition by Italian photographer Mario Badagliacca, will run for the week of Cork World Book Fest. It focuses on objects taken from asylum seekers and migrants as they arrived on the island of Lampedusa. Mobile phone parts, battered guidebooks, broken compasses and cigarette packets were all taken, and later disposed of, by the police. In documenting this collection of lost belongings, Badagliacca encourages us to reflect on the value of objects and the value of human life. His photographs tell stories of migration, displacement and hope, as they help us to trace the different subjectivities of their owners; their faces, voices, stories and journeys.

Held in collaboration with the Memory research group of the Centre for Advanced Study in Languages and Cultures, University College Cork.

Cork City Libraries
57-61 Grand Parade, Cork WCR-01-T56

Price: Free

OPENING:
27 April-4 May 2019

Mundo Critico-Revista de Desenvolvimento Cooperação n.3 2019 online

Por esta 3ª edição da Mundo Crítico passam algumas das questões que hoje se colocam à cooperação para o desenvolvimento, a nível internacional e também nacional, procurando contribuir para um retrato, diverso e a várias vozes, sobre uma realidade que está a sofrer grandes mutações, tanto em termos conceptuais como de políticas e práticas, que podem mesmo pôr em causa a cooperação como valor nas relações entre espaços geográficos, políticos e culturais.
Este número inicia com uma conversa imperfeita, num tom crítico, sobre as actuais tendências da Cooperação para o Desenvolvimento e sobre a necessidade de criar capacidades locais que perdurem. O dossiê saber e circunstâncias inaugura com 6 questões sobre a Cooperação Portuguesa,uma reflexão realizada pelo Conselho Editorial, que procura assim contribuir para o debate necessário (e urgente) no sector. A editoria inclui textos sobre diferentes visões e abordagens de países como a China e a Noruega -, as recentes decisões da Cooperação Portuguesa em matéria de Ajuda Pública ao Desenvolvimento, bem como uma reflexão sobre os profissionais da “indústria” do Desenvolvimento, o sector não governamental nos PALOP ou a actuação e as mudanças nas ONG em Angola. Por fim, surge um texto sobre banda desenhada no feminino e a abertura de caminhos de cooperação e solidariedade.
Os modos de ver a migração para a Europa, pelo olhar do fotógrafo italiano Mario Badagliacca, a partir de objectos de migrantes que desembarcam em Lampedusa são a proposta para esta edição. Já as narrativas apresentam dois trabalhos jornalísticos sobre o bairro do Jamaica, em Portugal, e um reencontro na Etiópia, após a assinatura do acordo de paz com a Eritreia. Recuperamos a editoria inovações (iniciada no primeiro número),com dois exemplos de processos de promoção dos direitos humanos na Guiné-Bissau e ao nível da CPLP e outro de cooperação no ensino entre Portugal e Moçambique. A edição termina com ecos gráficos de banda desenhada e algumas sugestões de leituras no escaparate sobre a Cooperação para o Desenvolvimento na actualidade.

Descarregar revista online: Mundo Critico-Revista de Desenvolvimento Cooperação n.3 2019

Mundo Critico web site link

Mediterranea Saving Humans - La via di terra a Palermo, Teatro Politeama 28 October 2018, 11.00 a.m.
With the participation of: Roberto Alajmo, Vanessa Ambrosecchio, Mario Badagliacca, Letizia Battaglia, Francesco Bellina, Gabriele Bevilacqua, Paola Caridi, Marco Da Milano, Emma Dante, Mariangela Di Gangi, Serena Ganci, Carmelo Graceffa, Itastra, Yossif Latif Jarallah, Simona Mafai, Alessio Mamo, Giuseppe Marsala, Fausto Melluso, Giuseppe Piazzese, Giuseppe Milici, Beatrice Monroy, Paola Nicita, Caterina Pasqualino, Santo Piazzese, Vincenzo Pirrotta, Costanza Quatriglio, Isabella Ragonese, Valerio Rizzo, Evelina Santangelo, Alessandra Sciurba, Antonio Sellerio, Olivia Sellerio Quartet, Shobha, Daniele Vicari.
Mediterranea Saving Humans Project
Mediterranea is a platform of different initiatives of civil society coming to the central Mediterranean after the NGOs have been forced to leave in consequence of being criminalized by political rhetoric, even though no inquiry has ever come to any conviction.
Mediterranea bears great resemblance with the NGOs operating in the Mediterranean sea during the last years, observing, documenting and informing the public of what is happening in those waters, not being carried out by anyone nowadays. At the same time, Mediterranea is different: a non-governmental project by the joint work of heterogeneous organizations and individuals, open to all voices from different perspectives, secular and religious, social and cultural, union and political, that feel the urge to share the goals of this project, which aims at giving hope, rebuilding humanity, and defending law and rights.
The action of Mediterranea is moral disobedience and civil obedience. Disobedience to the nationalist and xenophobic public discourse and to the interdiction of witnessing what is happening in the Mediterranean; but obeying to the constitutional and international law, the law on the seas and general human rights, including the obligation of saving those who are in danger and bringing them to a safe harbor.
Facebook Livestream Event
Mediterranea Saving Humans crowdfunding and donations

To be [defined] aims at articulating two main concepts about displacement, migration and exile: definition and construction on one side and de-construction and resistance on the other one.

Starting from the many representations and definitions of the persons that we call “migrants”, the exhibition investigates the means, rhetorics, rituals, discourses, limits and banalities, the institutions, the imaginary and the relations that construct the object “migrant” and the extent to which this construction is affecting the lives and the imagination of the same subjects. On the other hand, it will also take into account the resistance of the subjects, namely how each person manages to reclaim their subjectivity and their identity as individuals beyond the label they are given of migrants. This act of reclaiming can occur across different lines of struggle, both intimate and public, but all militant, all revolutionary, all related.

5th October, 7.30 pm
Vernissage with the participation of the artists Moira Agius, Mario Badagliacca, Glen Calleja, Katel Delia, Emmanuel Guillaud, Alberto Favaro, Malik Nejmi, Aurélie Percevault, Guy Woueté.


5th October- 4th November 2018
Spazju Kreattiv, Main Staircase and Space C
Valletta