AEMI

16 AEMI JOURNAL 2015
Tirabassi also urged the Assembly to
make a public announcement supporting
the victims of the Lampedusa catastrophe.
Sarah Clement wanted members to
contribute to the Places of Memory and
History concept by sending her information
and pictures of three places connected
to migration in their country.
12. Future venues
Representatives from several member
institutions have expressed their wish
to host the AEMI conference in the
years to come. The 2014 Annual AEMI
meeting will take place in Riga, Latvia
which that year has the status as European
Capital of Culture. Ms. Marianna
Auliciema, representing Latvians
Abroad Museum and Research Centre,
announced that the theme for next year
will have a special focus on refugees.
The venue for 2015 is still to be decided.
The actual alternatives are Altreitalie,
Center on Italian Migrations,
Turin, Italy or The Red Star Line in
Antwerp, Belgium.
In connection with the 400th anniversary
of the first European recorded
landfall in Western Australia in 2016,
Ms. Nonja Peters has proposed Perth,
Australia as the venue for the Annual
AEMI conference that year. Another alternative
might be Santiago de Compastella
in Spain.