WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
Mob-ility Symposium
October 10, 2014
Casa Artom
Venice, Italy
Casa Artom in Venice, Italy, is a beautiful palace on the Grand Canal. The house is named after Camillo Artom, who left Italy under the Fascist regime and found refuge in North Carolina, where the medical school at Wake Forest University granted him a visa. He thanked Wake Forest by donating Casa Artom to the University. The consulate of the Unites States in Venice was located there before WFU.
The story of Camillo Artom is one of mobility, the theme of the Mob-ility Symposium, to be held on October 10, 2014. The Symposium is an opportunity to reflect on the movement of persons, ideas, traditions, goods, and the political, social, and cultural ramifications of mobility, as they relate to the changing practices in travel, the environment, social-economic status, and technology.
These often include, but are not limited to, discussion of citizenship, immigration, diasporas, belonging, and place. Specifically, the Symposium invites a focus on the people who move (the ‘mob’ in mobility): migrants, travelers, tourists, temporary citizens, and asylum seekers, refugees, stateless people. Venice is a perfect site for the ‘Mob-ility Symposium’ as a historic trade city, a merchants’ harbor where people have always come and gone.
Our keynote speaker is Dima Mohammed, a Palestinian argumentation scholar who is currently working at the Argumentation Lab of the Instituto de Filosofia da Nova at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. Her domain of specialization includes argumentation theory, philosophy of language, persuasion research and political philosophy.
We invite papers, paper abstracts, discussion panels, and encourage creative submissions related to all aspects of mobility, including:
· Migration, immigration, emigration
· Diaspora, exile, refuge, asylum
· Citizenship rights, nationality, borders
· Socio-economic status
· Travel, transportation
· Technology, mobile modes of communication
· Environment, sustainability
· Security, surveillance
Papers must not exceed 25 pages and must include a title, the author’s/s’ affiliation, and contact information.
Paper Abstracts must not exceed 2 pages and must include a title, the author’s/s’ affiliation, and contact information.
Discussion panels or Performances/Creative Expressions must include a 250-word rationale, a 250-word abstract of each proposed paper or contribution, and a list of presenters with affiliation and contact information.
We encourage submissions from faculty, students, artists, activists, practitioners, and community members.
ALL submissions are due July 31, 2014
Send/Email all submissions to:
Alessandra Von Burg
[email protected]
Department of Communication
Wake Forest University
Mob-ility Symposium
October 10, 2014
Casa Artom
Venice, Italy
Casa Artom in Venice, Italy, is a beautiful palace on the Grand Canal. The house is named after Camillo Artom, who left Italy under the Fascist regime and found refuge in North Carolina, where the medical school at Wake Forest University granted him a visa. He thanked Wake Forest by donating Casa Artom to the University. The consulate of the Unites States in Venice was located there before WFU.
The story of Camillo Artom is one of mobility, the theme of the Mob-ility Symposium, to be held on October 10, 2014. The Symposium is an opportunity to reflect on the movement of persons, ideas, traditions, goods, and the political, social, and cultural ramifications of mobility, as they relate to the changing practices in travel, the environment, social-economic status, and technology.
These often include, but are not limited to, discussion of citizenship, immigration, diasporas, belonging, and place. Specifically, the Symposium invites a focus on the people who move (the ‘mob’ in mobility): migrants, travelers, tourists, temporary citizens, and asylum seekers, refugees, stateless people. Venice is a perfect site for the ‘Mob-ility Symposium’ as a historic trade city, a merchants’ harbor where people have always come and gone.
Our keynote speaker is Dima Mohammed, a Palestinian argumentation scholar who is currently working at the Argumentation Lab of the Instituto de Filosofia da Nova at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. Her domain of specialization includes argumentation theory, philosophy of language, persuasion research and political philosophy.
We invite papers, paper abstracts, discussion panels, and encourage creative submissions related to all aspects of mobility, including:
· Migration, immigration, emigration
· Diaspora, exile, refuge, asylum
· Citizenship rights, nationality, borders
· Socio-economic status
· Travel, transportation
· Technology, mobile modes of communication
· Environment, sustainability
· Security, surveillance
Papers must not exceed 25 pages and must include a title, the author’s/s’ affiliation, and contact information.
Paper Abstracts must not exceed 2 pages and must include a title, the author’s/s’ affiliation, and contact information.
Discussion panels or Performances/Creative Expressions must include a 250-word rationale, a 250-word abstract of each proposed paper or contribution, and a list of presenters with affiliation and contact information.
We encourage submissions from faculty, students, artists, activists, practitioners, and community members.
ALL submissions are due July 31, 2014
Send/Email all submissions to:
Alessandra Von Burg
[email protected]
Department of Communication
Wake Forest University
