Dissemination Workshop in Luanda
On 25 February 2015, the Director of SIMI, Fabio Baggio, participated in a seminar in Luanda, Angola, organized by the Scalabrini Institute for Human Mobiity in Africa (SIHMA) in collaboration with the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People (SEPAMI) of the Conferencia Episcolal Angolana and the national Caritas. The seminar served to present the Portughues version of the book "Africanos on the Move." It was attended by some sixty experts, [...]
SIMI-PUG Study Group
Saturday, January 31, 2015, at the operational headquarters of SIMI, Via Dandolo 58, Rome, the study group SIMI - PUG held the first meeting for the year 2015. This group was formed as a joint initiative of the SIMI and the Pontifical Gregorian University and it itnends to study certain relevant areas of the phenomenon of human mobility. The study group currently consists of four professors from SIMI and 4 professors from the Gregorian [...]
Council of Institute
On 30 January 2015 at the headquarters of SIMI in via Dandolo 58, Rome, the first Council of Institute of the Academic Year 2014-2015 was held. Fr. Fabio Baggio (director), Fr. Aldo Skoda (vicedirector and amdinistrator), Sara Salvatori (secretary), Fr. René Manenti, Bro. Gioacchino Campese, Fr. Luigi Sabbarese, Fr. Giovanni Rizzi and Deacon Carlos Barbosa attended the meeting. The Council approved the financial report for 2014, the budget for 2015 and the program of the courses for the licentiate in 2015-2017. The [...]
Conference in Bisogne (BS)
On 23 January 2015 the Commissione di Pastorale Sociale of the Catholic Parrish of Bisogne, province of Brescia, organized the first of three nights dedicated to the issues and problems of immigration in Italy. The first night was titled "Immigration beyond common places". For such occasion the SIMI director was invited to deliver a conference on the causes, trends and main data concerning the immigration phenomenon in Italy. The audience gathered for the event actively participated in [...]
Round Table Discussion in Sora
On 18 January 2015 at the Centro San Luca in Sora (FR) the Office of Migrantes of the Diocese of Sora Cassino Aquino Pontecorvo organized a Round Table Discussion on the main theme of the 101 World Migrant and Refugee Day : "Church without Borders, Mather of All". The SIMI Director participated to the Round Table Discussion with a presentation titled, "The Theological Dimension of Christian Hospitality". The event, which was honored by the presence of the loca Bishop, H.E. the most [...]