AEMI

ANNUAL MEETING 2015, TURIN, ITALY
‘Ethnic media’ The role of the leading Portuguese
newspaper (“Contacto”) in Luxembourg
Margherita Di Salvo, Tuscia University,
Viterbo, Italy: From Italy to England
and back between histories, identities and
languages
Carlo Stiaccini CISEI; Andrea Torre
Centro Studi MEDI’, CISEI, Genova,
Italy: Mobility in Genoa during economy
crises: from history to present times
Maria M. Berglund, Swedish Migration
Center, Karlstad, Sweden: Father
in new fatherland, mother in new
mother soil. new fatherland, mother in
new mother soil. Depictions of migranthood
and parenthood in Swedish fiction
2004–2014
Friday 25
Session 4: European Diaspora
Chair: Brian Lambkin, Mellon Centre
for Migration Studies, Ulster American
Folk Park, Omagh, United Kingdom.
Speakers:
Janja Žitnik Serafin, Slovenian Migration
Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia:
Care for diasporic communities: the case
of a bilateral agreement between Slovenia
and Bosnia and Herzegovina
Maria Beatriz Rocha-Trindade, Centro
de Estudos das Migrações e das
Relações Interculturais, Universidade
Aberta, Lisboa, Portugal: Bonding the
Portuguese diaspora: secular, religious and
leisure catalysts politics and practices
Elisa Gosso, University of Turin:
Crossing Boundaries: negotiating transnational
heritage and belonging in the German
Waldesian Diaspora
Session 5 and 6: Archives,
Museums and Projects
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Chair: Hans Storhaug, Norwegian Emigration
Center, Stavanger, Norway.
Speakers:
Brian Lambkin, Mellon Centre for
Migration Studies, Ulster American
Folk Park, Omagh, UK: The Irish National
Diaspora Centre
Margaret Hills de Zárate, Queen
Margaret Univ., Edinburgh, UK; Loredana
Polezzi, Univ. of Warwick, UK:
Transnational Italian networks and transnational
Italian studies
Paul Pauseback, Nordfriisk Instituut,
Bredstedt, Germany: Making Europe
Bottom Up: migration from and to the region
of North-Frisia in Schleswig-Holstein
from 1800 till today
Sarah Clément, Génériques, Paris,
France: European citizenship through European
migration history
Maria Luisa Caldognetto, Nicolas
Graf, Centre de Documentation sur
les Migrations Humaine, Dudelange,
Luxembourg: Food traditions amongst
Italian migrants in Luxembourg, between
the need to be faithful to the past and new
future challenges
Nonja Peters, Curtin University and
University of Western Sydney, Australia:
Developing a sustainable model in mutual
cultural digital heritage
An unforgettable farewell dinner at Villa
Abegg, hosted by Marco Demarie, Head
of Research in Philanthropy at Compagnia
di San Paolo, marked the end
of the 25th annual international AEMI
conference. The participants enjoyed
Italian gourmet food and wine at this
historic building, which is the surviving
part of the vineyard that belonged to the
regent Christine of France, daughter of
king Henry IV of France.