ESF Exploratory Workshop
Lisbon 20-21 May 2010
Convened by Marzia Grassi (ICS-UL)
Thursday 20th May 2010
09.30-9.45 Welcome and inaugural adress
Marzia Grassi (Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal)
09.45-10.00 Presentation of the European Science Foundation (ESF)
Luisa Lima, Standing Committee for Social Sciences (SCSS)
10.00-10.30 “Gender and African migration to Portugal”
Marzia Grassi (Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal)
10.30-11.00 “Travelling ideas and dislocated fantasies: Notions of family, sexuality and gender in Europe/Africa relations in the 20th century”
Signe Arnfred (Roskilde University, Denmark)
11.00-11.30 Coffee / tea break
11.30-12.00 “West African Associations in Italy: Transnational engagements, co-development and citizenship”
Bruno Riccio (University of Bologna, Italy)
12.00-13.00 Discussion
13.00-14.30 Lunch
14.30-15.00 “Migration Internationale et transformation des relations de genre dans les communautés de la moyenne vallée du fleuve Sénégal"
Fatou Sarr (University Check Anta Diop, Senegal)
15.00-15.30 “The new transnational Cape Verdean Matrifocal Families”
Martina Giuffrè (University of Rome, Italy)
15.30-16.00 “The impact of the transnational network in the Equatorial Guinea case in a gender view”
Yolanda Aixelá (Spanish Council for Scientific Research, Spain)
16.00-16.30 Coffee / tea break
16.30-18.30 Discussion
19.00 Dinner
Friday 21th May 2010
09.30-10.00 “The exchange of care between migrants living in Australia and Belgium and their parents living in El Salvador: a comparative analysis"
Laura Merla (Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal)
10.00-10.30 “African diasporas and gendered trajectories”
Giovanna Campani (University of Florence, Italy)
10.30-11.00 "Migrant Assimilation in Europe: A Transnational Family Affair”
Sam Scott (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)
11.00-11.30 Coffee / tea break
11.30-12.30 Discussion
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.30 "Migration Trajectories of Immigrant Women in Portugal"
Karin Wall (Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal)
14.30-15.00 “The situation of migrant women and their integration into Italian society”
Olivia Salimbeni (University of Florence, Italy)
15.00-15.30 “Transnational fathering projects and practices: some evidence from the UK”
Majella Kilkey (University of Hull, United Kingdom)
15.30-16.00 Coffee / tea break
16.00-18.30 Discussion on follow-up networking, future activities and collaboration
19.00 Dinner
