THURSDAY 12 OCTOBER
Venue: Photothek in Palazzo Grifoni Budini Gattai
10.00
Introduction
Costanza Caraffa, Eva-Maria Troelenberg, Anna Sophia Messner
10.20
Keynote Lecture
Attending to Migration
Margaret Olin /// Yale University, New Haven, CT
Chair: Costanza Caraffa
11.20 Coffee Break
PANEL I ARRIVALS ?
Chair: Eva-Maria Troelenberg
11.50
Portraying Race beyond Ellis Island
Leslie Ureña /// photography historian and curator, Washington, DC
12.25
Migrating Objects – A Suitcase as Photo Archive
Anna Sophia Messner /// Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
13.00 Lunch Break
PANEL II PARTICIPATORY PRACTICES
Chair: Jeanette Kohl /// University of California, Riverside, CA
14.30
How To Self-Translate the Experience of Migration–Participatory Practices in Social Documentary Photography
Birgit Mersmann /// Universität Basel
15.05
Born Immigrant
Morteza Khaleghi /// artist, Rome
15.40
Photo-Monologues and Photo-Dialogues from the Family-Album: Belonging, Uprooting, Migration
Ya'ara Gil-Glazer /// Tel-Hai Academic College
16.15 Coffee Break
Venue: Villa Romana
18.00
Roundtable
Whose Images / Whose Imaginations?
Moderators: Estelle Blaschke /// Université de Lausanne
Angelika Stepken /// Villa Romana, Florence
Participants: Fide Dayo /// artist, Rome
Armin Linke /// artist, Milan/Berlin
Rob Pinney /// photographer, London
FRIDAY 13 OCTOBER
Venue: Photothek in Palazzo Grifoni Budini Gattai
PANEL III DIASPORAS, COMMUNITIES, IDENTITIES
Chair: Alison Boyd
9.30
Things We Lost in the Fire: Images from the Bamboo Club 1966 - 1977
Gavin Maitland /// freelance writer, researcher and lecturer, UK
10.05
Photographer as Ethnographer: Visual Studies of Urban Migration in Germany
Elâ Kaçel /// Bahçesehir University, Istanbul and Humboldt-Fellow at RWTH Aachen
10.40 Coffee Break
11.10
Entangled: Contemporary Iranian Photography in Migration Context
Cathrine Bublatzky /// Universität Heidelberg
11.45
Objects of Escape - Inventories of Migration
A joint art project by Massimo Ricciardo and Thomas Kilpper
presentation and tour of the installation in the Photothek with Massimo Ricciardo /// artist, Turin
12.45 Lunch Break
PANEL IV ENCOUNTERS AND NARRATIVES
Chair: Shamoon Zamir /// New York University Abu Dhabi
14.30
Pictures of Longing: Migration Photographs as Grass-Root Stories
Sigrid Lien /// University of Bergen
15.05
Moving Pictures: Slavery, Anthropology and Cultural Resilience in Sudan
Katie J. Hickerson /// University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
15.40 Coffee Break
16.10
Photographing Palestinian Refugees
Issam Nassar /// Illinois State University, Normal, IL
16.45
Portraits of Unbelonging: Photographs as Sites of Encounters with the Ottoman State and Armenian Emigrants to the United States
Zeynep Devrim Gürsel /// Macalester College, St. Paul, MN
17.20 Final Discussion