October 10, 2014
Casa Artom
Venice, Italy
Mob-ility Symposium
9am Opening Remarks
9:10am Keynote Speaker
10:15am Coffee Break
10:30am Panel 1
11:30pm Panel 2
12:30pm Lunch
2pm Special Guest
2:35pm Panel 3
3:45pm Coffee Break
4:00pm Panel 4
5pm Reception
9:10am, Keynote Speaker, Dima Mohammed, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Discussing on the Move: Personal Reflections
"To be on the move is to learn to live with differences: not just the different places and the different people we meet, but also the different people we become ourselves. Discussions are good ways of dealing with differences: by acknowledging them and engaging with them we can make the best out of our mobility, and in order to be able to do that, it is essential that we see some common ground and build on it.
In this talk, I reflect on my personal mobility experience and explore the connection between mobility and (argumentative) discussion. I use concepts from argumentation studies --ex. critical discussion (van Eemeren and Grootendorst, 2004), as well as from migration studies –ex. transnationalism (Vertovec, 2009) and from moral philosophy –ex. cosmopolitanism (Appiah, 2006), in order to highlight aspects in which mobility and discussion skills are interdependent. I show how, in my own experience as a descendent of Palestinian refugees who has herself settled and moved between 5 different countries (not always voluntarily), the more I move the better I can discuss and the better I can discuss the more I make out of my mobility. "
10:30am, Narrative Approaches to Switzerland and Europe’s Vexed Stance on Mobility, Human Rights,
and Asylum Politics
Chair: Samantha Larsen, Wake Forest University
Caroline Wiedmer, Franklin University Switzerland, “Stories of Abjection/Stories of Glory: Swiss Narrative Constructions of Self and Others against the Backdrop of a Tarnished Humanitarian Tradition”
Sara Steinert Borella, Franklin University Switzerland, “Black Sheep, White Sheep: Race, Migration and the Counter-Narrative in Fernand Melgar’s The Fortress and Special Flight”
11:30am, Immigration, Mobility
Chair: Camry Wilborn, Wake Forest University
Mariangela Veikou, University of Leicester, “The right to Asylum and EU Asylum procedure in Greece”
Roberta Cimarosti, Universita’ Ca' Foscari Venezia and Wake Forest University "English as a Motion Language"
Dario Pellizzon, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, "Going global: patterns, tools and funding for researchers' mobility"
M. Agnese Chiari, Wake Forest University, "Foreigners Gathering in Venice: the Scuole di Nazionalità"
Lunch
2pm, Special Guest: André Aciman, Graduate Center, City University of New York,
“How Memoirists Toy with Memory”
2:35pm, Historical Musings around Mobility
Chair: Jake Shubert, Wake Forest University
Shaul Bassi, Universita’ Ca' Foscari Venezia and Wake Forest University "Strewn over the Universe": Jewish Cosmopolitanism in Venice"
Peter Praxmarer, Universita’ della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, “Mobility and Intercultural Communication in Contemporary Modernity: Conceptual Musings”
Darius Williams, Wake Forest University, “Reassessing the American Hope: The Role of Education upon Socioeconomic Un-Mobility of the Urban American”
4pm, Technology and Mobility
Chair: Brooke Lucas, Wake Forest University
Elena Biserna, University of Udine, “Audio Walks, Sound, Mobility, Urban Space”
Jarice Hanson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, “The Past, Present, and Future of Mobility Facilitated by Mobile Phones”
Samantha Larsen, Wake Forest University "Globe Trotter: A Travel Smartphone Application"
Casa Artom
Venice, Italy
Mob-ility Symposium
9am Opening Remarks
9:10am Keynote Speaker
10:15am Coffee Break
10:30am Panel 1
11:30pm Panel 2
12:30pm Lunch
2pm Special Guest
2:35pm Panel 3
3:45pm Coffee Break
4:00pm Panel 4
5pm Reception
9:10am, Keynote Speaker, Dima Mohammed, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Discussing on the Move: Personal Reflections
"To be on the move is to learn to live with differences: not just the different places and the different people we meet, but also the different people we become ourselves. Discussions are good ways of dealing with differences: by acknowledging them and engaging with them we can make the best out of our mobility, and in order to be able to do that, it is essential that we see some common ground and build on it.
In this talk, I reflect on my personal mobility experience and explore the connection between mobility and (argumentative) discussion. I use concepts from argumentation studies --ex. critical discussion (van Eemeren and Grootendorst, 2004), as well as from migration studies –ex. transnationalism (Vertovec, 2009) and from moral philosophy –ex. cosmopolitanism (Appiah, 2006), in order to highlight aspects in which mobility and discussion skills are interdependent. I show how, in my own experience as a descendent of Palestinian refugees who has herself settled and moved between 5 different countries (not always voluntarily), the more I move the better I can discuss and the better I can discuss the more I make out of my mobility. "
10:30am, Narrative Approaches to Switzerland and Europe’s Vexed Stance on Mobility, Human Rights,
and Asylum Politics
Chair: Samantha Larsen, Wake Forest University
Caroline Wiedmer, Franklin University Switzerland, “Stories of Abjection/Stories of Glory: Swiss Narrative Constructions of Self and Others against the Backdrop of a Tarnished Humanitarian Tradition”
Sara Steinert Borella, Franklin University Switzerland, “Black Sheep, White Sheep: Race, Migration and the Counter-Narrative in Fernand Melgar’s The Fortress and Special Flight”
11:30am, Immigration, Mobility
Chair: Camry Wilborn, Wake Forest University
Mariangela Veikou, University of Leicester, “The right to Asylum and EU Asylum procedure in Greece”
Roberta Cimarosti, Universita’ Ca' Foscari Venezia and Wake Forest University "English as a Motion Language"
Dario Pellizzon, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, "Going global: patterns, tools and funding for researchers' mobility"
M. Agnese Chiari, Wake Forest University, "Foreigners Gathering in Venice: the Scuole di Nazionalità"
Lunch
2pm, Special Guest: André Aciman, Graduate Center, City University of New York,
“How Memoirists Toy with Memory”
2:35pm, Historical Musings around Mobility
Chair: Jake Shubert, Wake Forest University
Shaul Bassi, Universita’ Ca' Foscari Venezia and Wake Forest University "Strewn over the Universe": Jewish Cosmopolitanism in Venice"
Peter Praxmarer, Universita’ della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, “Mobility and Intercultural Communication in Contemporary Modernity: Conceptual Musings”
Darius Williams, Wake Forest University, “Reassessing the American Hope: The Role of Education upon Socioeconomic Un-Mobility of the Urban American”
4pm, Technology and Mobility
Chair: Brooke Lucas, Wake Forest University
Elena Biserna, University of Udine, “Audio Walks, Sound, Mobility, Urban Space”
Jarice Hanson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, “The Past, Present, and Future of Mobility Facilitated by Mobile Phones”
Samantha Larsen, Wake Forest University "Globe Trotter: A Travel Smartphone Application"
