BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//AltSOU - ECPv6.3.7//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://altsou.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for AltSOU REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Rome BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240520T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240520T120000 DTSTAMP:20260420T053738 CREATED:20240417T172018Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240513T094717Z UID:342-1716199200-1716206400@altsou.com SUMMARY:Sinking Europe\, Thinking migration: the law in theory and practice DESCRIPTION:WHO?\nMartina Flamini (Ufficio del Massimario in Corte di Cassazione)\, Chiara Favilli (UniFi)\, Françoise Blum (Navire Avenir)\, Romain Lanneau (Statewatch)\, SOS Méditerranée (Name tbc)\, Tineke Strik (European Parliament) \nWHAT?\nThe European Union seems to be determined to contain migration at any cost\, including the high chance of being complicit in the death at sea of people attempting to access Europe\, and of fundamental rights breaches at its borders. A growing number of regulations and legislative proposals aim at creating major obstacles to prevent people on the move from enjoying their fundamental rights. Additionally\, internal regulations continue to separate people depending on the basis of social\, cultural and ethnic faultlines. While theorizing migration law as racist and postcolonial seems quite straightforward\, forging practices of resistance becomes more and more arduous due to the political landscape.The roundtable provides a platform for a critical discussion on the multifaceted challenges and complexities surrounding the legal framework of migration in the European Union (EU). Drawing on diverse perspectives from civil society\, policymaking\, activists and practitioners\, the roundtable will delve into these matters through a collaborative dialogue. The hope is that through lively exchanges among the participants\, innovative strategies of resistance and creative policy proposals can be imagined. \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS\n\nMartina Flamini\, civil judge engaged in migration and asylum law\, privacy law\, human rights\, data protection\, non discrimination\, and medical malpractice. She is currently working in Ufficio del Massimario of the Italian Court of Cassation. She is a member of groups “asylum and migration”\, European project ACTIONES\, REJUS and FRICORE in the field of asylum and migration. Martina Flamini is also a judicial trainer of the Italian School of Judiciary and of the EUAA. Martina Flamini is going to contribute to the collective reflection on (sinking) Europe dealing with migration and asylum drawing from her vast experience on the field as a judge.\n\n  \n\nChiara Favilli\, lawyer and professor of EU law at University of Florence. Chiara acted as a lawyer in a Dublin case before the CJEU in preliminary reference procedure (C‐228/21\, C‐254/21\, C‐297/21\, C‐315/21 e C‐328/21). She will share her experience in challenging the most disreputable piece of legislation in EU migration law\n\n  \n\nFrançoise Blum\, former European civil servant\, she is currently engaged in the Navire Avenir Project\, which aims at the creation of a European Maritime Flag for operations of rescue of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea. Françoise will present how this project fits into the European migration context and discuss the role of the law in shaping the rescue of migrants at sea.\n\n  \n\nRomain Lanneau\, Consultant researcher working for Statewatch\, a civil society organisation that produces and promotes critical research\, policy analysis and investigative journalism to inform debates\, movements and campaigns on civil liberties\, human rights and democratic standards. Romain will discuss the use of secret evidence in migration and asylum cases in the EU and the potential (in theory) for data protection to offer an effective remedy\n\n  \n\nTineke Strik is an MEP in the European Parliament since 2019\, affiliated with the Greens. She is also a professor of Citizenship and Migration Law at Radboud University. She will offer a political perspective on European migration law and in particular talk about the New Pact on Migration and Asylum that has been discussed in and adopted by the Parliament in April 2024. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n \n Details \n \n \n\n \n Date: \n \n May 21\, 2024 \n \n\n Time: \n \n \n 18:15 – 19:15 CEST\n \n \n\n \n \n \n Event Category: altSOU’24\n Event Tags:Academia\, Activism\, Migration\n \n \n\n \n\n \n Organiser \n \n \n \n \n AltSOU Team \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nVenue \n\n\n\n \n \n\n \n Sala Triaria (Villa Schifanoia) + on zoom\n \n\n \n \n \n\n\n Florence\,\n\n\n\n Italy\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Add to calendar \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Google Calendar \n \n \n \n iCalendar \n \n \n \n Outlook 365 \n \n \n \n Outlook Live URL:https://altsou.com/event/sinking-europe-thinking-migration-the-law-in-theory-and-practice/ LOCATION:Sala Triaria (Villa Schifanoia) + on zoom\, Florence\, Italy CATEGORIES:altSOU'24,Hybrid event,Roundtable END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240521T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240521T103000 DTSTAMP:20260420T053738 CREATED:20240418T163800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240518T182501Z UID:555-1716282000-1716287400@altsou.com SUMMARY:Political humanitarianism\, the Black Mediterranean and border violence DESCRIPTION:WHO?\nBeppe Caccia (Mediterranea)\, David Yambio (Alliance for the Refugees in Libya)\, Ida Danewid (University of Sussex)\, Vivian Gerrand (Deakin University) and others! \nWHAT?\nThis unconference panel is an ‘egalitarian exchange of questions’\, which aims to bring humanitarian organisations into dialogue with university-based activists working for the rights and dignity of migrant people within and beyond Europe. Among other questions\, we will discuss what the historical role of mobility controls has been in capturing and disciplining a mobile workforce\, and how activist-academic discourse can build practically applicable counter-narratives to this. We will critique and formulate political alternatives to today’s humanitarian discourse by exploring non-statist forms of care and communality seen among Mediterranean communities. We will examine new possibilities thrown up by the way the Black Mediterranean and ‘bordered’ violence have changed over the past 20 years. We will centre the role of refugees as protagonists in the fight for human rights\, particularly in the context of Libyan refugees in Italy. These questions\, collectively reflected upon\, will feed into the creation of an action plan for use by university communities who wish to bridge the gap between academia\, humanitarian activism and journalism for migrant rights. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS\n\nDr. Ida Danewid is a social and political theorist based in the Department of International Relations at the University of Sussex. Her research interests are in anticolonial political thought\, the black radical tradition\, gender studies\, and histories of internationalism “from below.” She is the author of Resisting Racial Capitalism: An Antipolitical Theory of Refusal (Cambridge University Press). \n\n\n Vivian Gerrand is a scholar of alternative / counter narratives\, migration\, citizenship\, postcoloniality\, radicalisation and resilience who has been studying cultures of migration in Italy since 2003. She lives with European heritage on the unceded lands of the Kulin Nation in Naarm (Melbourne\, Australia)\, where she was born.\n\n\nDavid Yambio (Alliance for the Refugees in Libya) – To be completed\n\n\nBeppe Caccia (Mediterranea)- To be completed\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue URL:https://altsou.com/event/political-humanitarianism-the-black-mediterranean-and-border-violence/ LOCATION:Sala Triaria (Villa Schifanoia) + on zoom\, Florence\, Italy CATEGORIES:altSOU'24,Hybrid event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240521T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240521T123000 DTSTAMP:20260420T053738 CREATED:20240418T164533Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240513T101847Z UID:558-1716289200-1716294600@altsou.com SUMMARY:Beyond borders? Academic and activist research at EU borders DESCRIPTION:WHO?\nFederico Alagna (Scuola Normale Superiore)\, Kamila Fiałkowska (University of Warsaw and Badaczki i Badacze na Granicy)\, Giulia Fabini (University of Bologna) and Martina Tazzioli (University of Bologna) \nWHAT?\nThis roundtable focuses on borders and calls for a dialogue that brings empirical\, conceptual and philosophical perspectives together. While Frontex has increased its workforce to control the external borders next to national border guards\, it is also becoming increasingly normal to encounter border controls within the Schengen area itself. External and internal borders of the European Union (EU) are spaces of daily violence and illegal pushbacks\, but also of daily resistance from those on the move and their supporters. How do we tell the story of this resurgence of borders in Europe? Have they always been so present\, or are they just more visible? What is our role as researchers and/or activists doing research at/on borders?  \nThis roundtable invites speakers to share their experiences – as academics and/or activists – at the internal and external borders of the EU. Through a roundtable format\, the event aims at:  \n\nSharing field experiences about the situation at particular borders in Europe\nDiscussing the changing nature of borders and of (re/de)-bordering practices and their effect on people on the move and locals\nReflecting collectively on more critical understandings of borders and migration\nDiscussing how it is possible to navigate political engagements within academic institutions Each participant will make a presentation of their research and/or activist experience of 10 minutes\, after which we will open the floor for discussion.\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKERS\n\nGiulia Fabini is a Junior Assistant Professor in the Department of Legal Studies at the University of Bologna. She holds a PhD in Law and Society from the University of Milan and was a student researcher at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at UC Berkeley. Giulia’s research focuses on border control and the interaction between migrants and the police\, migrant struggles\, immigration courts\, and the prison system from a gender perspective. She is currently collaborating on two research projects on police women and the prison police. Giulia acted as the Assistant Editor for the European Journal of Criminology (2017-2020) and she is a member of the editorial boards of Studi sulla questione criminale\, Rivista Antigone\, and Justice\, Power and Resistance. As an activist\, she is an observer of Antigone Association and has the authorization to visit prisons in Emilia-Romagna region. She is part of the European Society of Criminology\, the European Group for the study of deviance and social control\, and the Law and Society Association. Her most recent publication is Governing Immobility in the COVID-19 Crisis in Italy: Non-conforming Behaviors of Migrants Confronting the New Old Processes of Othering\n\n\nKamila Fiałkowska is a researcher at the Centre of Migration Research\, University of Warsaw and one of the coordinators of the Researchers on the Borders (Badaczki i Badacze na Granicy – https://www.bbng.org/) – a grassroots\, inter-university\, interdisciplinary research network created in response to the ongoing humanitarian crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border. Kamila obtained her PhD in 2018 at the Faculty of Political Studies and International Relations at the University of Warsaw. Her research focuses on gender relations in migratory settings\, masculinity studies and family relations\, as well as the construction of national and gender identities. \n\n\nMartina Tazzioli is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Cultures at the University of Bologna. She holds a PhD in Politics from Goldsmiths\, University of London\, and an MA in Philosophy from the University of Pisa. Martina’s research is situated at the crossroads of Political Geography\, Critical Migration and Border Studies\, and Political Philosophy. She is currently working on three projects: One on memory of border controls and migrants’ struggles\, a related project about counter-mapping and legal geographies of border violence on the central Mediterranean route\, and a research project about social reproduction activities in camps\, with a focus on Greece. Her latest publications include Border abolitionism: migration containment and the genealogies of struggles (2023)\, The Making of Migration. The Biopolitics of Mobility at Europe’s Borders (2019)\, and Spaces of Governmentality: Autonomous Migration and the Arab Uprisings (2015). \n\n\nFederico Alagna is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Political Science and Political Sociology in the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the Scuola Normale Superiore and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of Bologna. Federico’s research focuses on the politics of migration in the EU and Italy\, with specific reference to the migrant smuggling policy regime\, the role of civil society actors in the production of migration policies from below\, the criminalisation of people on the move and solidarity initiatives. He is a political activist\, mostly in the migrant solidarity and right to the city movements\, and is part of the sea rescue initiative Mediterranea Saving Humans. In the past\, Federico has also served as Deputy-Mayor for Culture and Public Education of the City of Messina.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue URL:https://altsou.com/event/beyond-borders-academic-and-activist-research-at-eu-borders/ LOCATION:Sala Triaria (Villa Schifanoia) + on zoom\, Florence\, Italy CATEGORIES:altSOU'24,Hybrid event,Roundtable END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240521T181500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240521T191500 DTSTAMP:20260420T053738 CREATED:20240418T171127Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240518T181801Z UID:582-1716315300-1716318900@altsou.com SUMMARY:Exposing Fortress Europe? The role of the University DESCRIPTION:WHO?\nJosé Bautista \nWHAT?\nOur goal during this summative session on Migration is to plan direct involvement\, as university members\, in the fight against the migration control industry and the externalisation of EU border controls. With the help of an independent investigative journalist from Spain\, we shall discuss how migration control mechanisms are sustained by political fear-mongering and public spending\, maintained through EU regulations\, and promoted by academia. In line with the 2024 EU New Pact on Migration and Asylum\, democratic governments with connections to authoritarian regimes\, universities\, corporations and large NGOs work together to support a model based on detention\, deportation and externalisation. We shall also revisit questions and perspectives explored during our roundtable on Political Humanitarianism\, the Mediterranean and Border Violence\, with the practical purpose of creating an action plan that university members can use\, in collaboration with activists\, journalists\, and members of civil society\, to work towards alternatives to these models. \nAbout the speaker\nJosé Bautista is an independent investigative journalist based in Spain and specialized in economics migrations. He leads the investigative journalism team at Fundación porCausa\, and also works for The New York Times and Der Spiegel. Bautista has worked for other media outlets and organizations\, including The Wall Street Journal\, Público\, La Marea\, Agencia EFE\, El País\, El Confidencial\, Lighthouse Reports\, OCCRP\, Folha de São Paulo\, eldiario.es\, and CEPAL\, among others. He holds a double master ‘s degree at Sorbonne Paris and the ESCP Business School. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue – TBC URL:https://altsou.com/event/exposing-fortress-europe-the-role-of-the-university/ LOCATION:Sala del Capitolo (Badia) + on zoom\, European University Insitute\, Florence\, Italy CATEGORIES:altSOU'24 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR