AEMI

12 AEMI JOURNAL 2015
Emigration on Social Networks of the Elderly
• Session 4 Child and Return Migrations
- Rewards and Challenges was chaired by
Maddalena Tirabassi, Altreitalie Center
on Italian Migration. Speakers:
Paul Pauseback, Noordfriisk Instituut:
Germany: Dreams, Ex-emigrants
and Millions of Dollars – What We Get
Back from Overseas
Nonja Peters, Curtin University, Australia:
Migrants, Refugees and a Sustainable
Europe – Then and Now
Jeroen Doomernik, Amsterdam Institute
for Social Science Research,
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands:
Migration for Adoption: A Specific Kind
of Trafficking?
Friday, 26 September 2014
The morning session started with a keynote
speech by Prof. Dr. Vita Zelče,
ASPRI and Faculty of Social Sciences,
University of Latvia, who spoke about
Major Flows of Migration Early 19th
Century to 1991: Latvian Case.
• Session 5 Media and Migration was
chaired by Hans Storhaug, the Norwegian
Migration Center. Speakers:
Patrick Fitzgerald, Mellon Centre of
Migration Studies, N. Ireland, Refugees
in Irish Migration History
Mārtiņš Kaprāns & Inta Mieriņa,
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology,
University of Latvia, Latvia: Latvian
Emigrant Communities: Media, Identity
and Belonging
Andris Straumanis, University of
Wisconsin - River Falls, USA: The View
from Hell: Latvian Press Reports of Emigration
to Brazil, 1890-1915
•Session 6 Archives and Museums was
chaired by Knut Djupedal, Museum of
Migration, Norway. Speakers:
Maira Bundža, Western Michigan
University, USA: Preservation of Baltic
Migrant Culture in Libraries and Archives
Emilia García López, Council for
Galician Culture, Spain: Letters Galician
Exile on the Web: Epistles Project
Marie-Charlotte Le Bailly and Nadia
Babazia, Red Star Line Museum, Belgium:
The Valorisation of Migration Stories
as European Biographical Heritage &
Their Use as a Museum Tool to Connect
Past and Present – The Case of the Red
Star Line Museum
Maija Hinkle, Latvians Abroad - Museum
and Research Centre, USA: Latvians
Abroad - an Interim Assessment
After lunch the organisers and the staff at
the Occupation Museum had arranged
for a visit and guided tour at Stūra māja
(former KGB building). Dinner was
enjoyed at Rozengrals, Riga’s only authentic
medieval restaurant.(Located
on the narrowest street of Old Riga, it
is a modern incarnation of what was
once Vinarium Civitatis Rigensis – the
wine-cellar and festival hall of Riga city
council, mentioned in scripts as early as
in 1293. Source: http://www.virtuallatvia.lv/medieval-restaurant-rozengrals/.)
Saturday, 27 October 2014
Saturday morning conference members
were taken on a bus tour through a
beautiful landscape of birch forest to the
medieval city of Cēsis. Mr. Jānis Rozenbergs,
Chairman of Cēsis Regional
Council, spoke about the problems the
city is facing due to diaspora. Unable to