European University Institute Bodies across borders: oral and visual memory in Europe and beyond
Bodies across borders: oral and visual memory in Europe and beyond

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Oral and Visual Memories of People Carrying the Status of ‘Migrant’ in Italy and the Netherlands: Ethical, Terminological and Cultural Reflections – Wednesday 26 October, European University Institute, Florence

Lecture in the framework of the History Departmental Colloquium, European University Institute, Florence – Wednesday 26 October at 15:30 
This presentation is based on the ongoing European Research Council Project “Bodies Across Borders: Oral and Visual Memory in Europe and Beyond”, located at the Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute, Florence.
The project combines various directions of research (cultural history, cultural geography, memory studies, as well as gender and visual studies) concerning the construction of emerging forms of European memory and identity. Among those is the survey and analysis of products by visual artists on working on topics of migration to Europe. Selected works are presented to migrants in the course of individual and collective interviews. The interviewees are then requested to produce in their turn visual images of their migration itineraries, through the media of photography, drawing and video.
The resulting documentation of oral and visual memories involves numerous scientific and ethical problems, among which the question of terminology regarding the process of mobility towards Europe and the typification of heterogeneous groups of people as “migrants” and “refugees.” The critical assessment of these problems is the intellectual contribution that we as researchers can give to the present European situation, labelled by the media as “the migrant crisis”. The BABE research project being midway, it will be presented as work-in-progress, evidencing the problems of collection and interpretation as well as of archiving and disseminating our results
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BABE-HAEU conjunct session at the UDPN École d’été, 14 July 2016

The BABE-HAEU conjunct session is part of the École d’été  organized by the network “Usages des Patrimoines Numérisés” (Université Sorbonne Paris Cité) taking place at Villa Finaly, Florence, 11-15 July 2016.
Methodological challenges raised by the archival processing of visual and oral sources collected during BABE Project fieldworks will be discussed within the larger framework of the digitization projects currently carried out by the Historical Archives of the European Union.
The HAEU will host all the BABE material once the collection will be completed.

Session Programme:

Thursday 14
14:00 – 17:00 The Historical Archives of the European Union-Villa Salviati
Presentation of the BABE Research Project “Bodies Across Borders : Oral and Visual Memory in Europe and Beyond”
Liliana Ellena and Leslie Hernández-Nova (European University Institute, Department of History and Civilization, Florence)
The Historical Archives of the European Union
Dieter Schlenker (HAEU Director, European University Institute, Florence)
15:30 – 15:45 Afternoon Break
Visit of the Historical Archives of the European Union  
Full UDPN École d’été Programme
“Usages des Patrimoines Numérisés”
   

Leslie Hernández Nova, November 13, 2015

Leslie Hernández Nova presents the paper “Mapping the Own Culture across Europe: Visual Memory of Peruvian Migration Trajectories”
at the workshop Mental Maps: Historical and Social Science Perspectives, held in Stockholm at the Södertörn University as part of the European Research Project Research Spaces of Expectation: Mental Mapping and Historical Imagination in the Baltic Sea and Mediterranean Region.

19-20 May 2016, Lectures on Memory and Visuality, Florence

 
The intersection between visuality, memory and politics is a crucial field of inquiry for the BABE research project, calling attention to the historical processes through which practices of mobility and border regulation have reconfigured the European space after 1989.
The two invited lecturers aim to enlarge our methodological perspective by discussing research fields and approaches based on colonial and postcolonial India. They will explore how visual meanings were generated and transformed in relation to the geopolitics of empire and to the national self-making of post-colonial India, and will shed light on the cultural and institutional relations shaping political spaces. Furthermore, their contributions will discuss how protocols of personal identification as well as the visualization of material/imagined borders reflect multiple temporalities.
Thursday 19 May
Film in the Archive of Mediatized Politics 
by Professor Ravi Vasudevan (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi)
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Friday 20 May
The ‘Look’ of the Document: The Colonial Subject in Transit, British India, 1882-1921
by Professor Radhika Singha (Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)
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10-11 March, Cultural Memory and Oral History in Global Perspective

Joint Initiative of Professors Alexander Etkind and Luisa Passerini.

This workshop aims to explore the connections between various forms of memory and their recording, transmission and preservation through different media, as these have been developing in the last fifty years across the globe. Particular relevance will be given to exchanges and osmosis between cultural and geopolitical areas as well as fields of knowledge and the arts.

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‘Bodies across European Borders: Oral and Visual Memory in Europe and Beyond’ (BABE): a conversation with Luisa Passerini, Donna Gabaccia, and Franca Iacovetta

‘Bodies across European Borders: Oral and Visual Memory in Europe and Beyond’ (BABE): a conversation with Luisa Passerini, Donna Gabaccia, and Franca Iacovetta, to be published in the “Women’s History Review” forthcoming Special Issue “Borders, Conflict Zones, and Memory: scholarly engagements with Luisa Passerini”