Summer School in Castel Volturno
The 2015 edition of the Summer School took place in Castel Volturno (CE), at Venus Park Hotel, July 13 to 16. Under the direction of prof. Laura Zanfrini, the school has focused attention on the right not to emigrate, on the conditions that make migration a compulsive choice and the responsibility of all those actors that take advantage of migration for various reasons, failing in duty to create, in the countries of [...]
MIM Summer School 2015
From 22 to 25 June 2015 in Valencia (Spain) the summer school (Escuela de Verano) of the Master Internacional de Migraciones of the Universitat de Valencia was held. SIMI was one of the co-organizers of the summer school together with other Scalabrini center for migration studies and other EU universities, which have been constituting a consortium since 2006. The 2015 edition of the summer school, tiled “Towards the Global Fracture. Migrations and Multiple Ethicizations”, focused on one of the [...]
Simposium on Migration and Religion
From 8 to 10 June 2015 in São Paulo, Brazil, the first "International Symposium on Religion and Migration" (The Symposium Internacional sobre Religião and Migração) was held. The theme chosen for this first edition was "Human Mobility and Religious Identities (Mobilidade humana and Identidades religiosas). The symposium was held in the Monte Alegre campus of the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo and it was organized jointly by the Post-graduate [...]
Seminar on Scalabrini and Bonomelli in Piacenza
On 15 May 2015 from 15.00 to 18.00 hrs. at the Aula 12 of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Piacenza, the Seminar titled, “Bonomelli and Scalabrini: Two Bishops whose Hearts a Diocese was not Enough to” was held. The even was organized by the Fondazione Migrantes (CEI), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, Scalabrini International Migration Institute (SIMI) in Rome and Fondazione Iniziative e Studi sulla Multietnicità (ISMU) in Milano. The program was composed of two sessions. The first [...]
Study Group SIMI-PUG – Second Meeting
On 11 May 2015 the second meeting of the group Studio SIMI - PUG, which has chosen as topic for the whole 2015 "irregular migration" was held in the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. In this meeting prof . Fabio Baggio presented his contribution titled, "Irregular migration, trafficking and smuggling. Mixed scenarios in the European Union and in Italy" , through which he tried to trace the current landscape of unauthorized migrants in Europe [...]
Lessons in the Master ASUS in Rome
The Director of SIMI, Fabio Baggio, was invited to deliver the course "History and problems of migration" within the Master Program in Intercultural and interfaith Mediation organized by the Academia of Human and Social Sciences (ASUS) in collaboration with the Salesian Pontifical University. The Master, which is constituted of lectures and distance learning, is structured in 1,500 hours, equal to 60 ECTS. The course entrusted to Prof. Baggio includes 4 hours of lectures, which were [...]