Thursday 27 March 2025
Roma Tre University
Sala del Consiglio
via Ostiense 159
00154 Rome

On Thursday, March 27, 2025, the workshop “Arte, Memorie migranti e Diritti umani“, second part of the cycle of collaborative workshops “Canvas of Hope: The Power of the Arts in Times of Conflict”, took place in the Council Hall of the Department of Law (via Ostiense, 159 – Rome), under the patronage of Amnesty International Italia and City of Peace for Children Foundation Basilicata. Full details can be found in the following attachments:
– Programme 27 March 2025
– Book of Abstracts

Friday 28 March 2025
University of Milan
Department of International, Legal and Historical-Political Studies
Sala Lauree
Via Conservatorio, 7 – Milano

On Friday 28 March 2025, from 9:30 a.m., the Department of International, Legal and Historical-Political Studies of the University of Milan will host the International Workshop “Migrazioni e violenze di frontiera. Pratiche del ricordo e dell’oblio attraverso il Mediterraneo/Migrations et violences frontalières: Pratiques de mémoire et d’oubli à travers la Méditerranée“.
The event will be an important opportunity for discussion and collective reflection on the processes of construction of public and collective memory of contemporary migrations through the stories of those who have crossed the Mediterranean. We will discuss traumatic memory and forms of forgetting, listening to and re-elaborating denied mourning, and artistic practices that contribute to the construction of a public memory of these slaughters. We will also address public mobilisations and legal support for the victims‘ families’ demands for truth and justice. The seminar is accompanied by Silvia Di Meo’s photographic exhibition entitled “La Mèr(e) Méditerranée: presences and resistances against the border regime“. The event is promoted in the framework of the research activities carried out by the research group coordinated by Professor Monica Massari (University of Milan) in the following projects: MOBS (PRIN 2020); Tramigrart (PRIN 2022); Memodias (Horizon-MSCA-202); Ithaca (Horizon 2020); Interdiasporic memories and international solidarity (PSR 2022).
The Scientific Committee is composed by Monica Massari, Silvia Di Meo, Gianluca Gatta e Thomas Aureliani.
Full details can be found in the programme.

Wednesday 12 and Thursday 13 March 2025
Roma Tre University
Sala professori
via Ostiense 234
00154 Rome

On Wednesday, March 12 and Thursday, March 12, 2025, the first part of the cycle of collaborative workshops “Canvas of Hope: The Power of the Arts in Times of Conflict” took place in the Professors’ Room of the Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts (via Ostiense, 234 – Rome), under the patronage of Amnesty International Italia and City of Peace for Children Foundation Basilicata. Full details can be found in the following attachments:
– Poster Canvas of Hope
– Programme 12 and 13 March 2025
– Book of Abstracts

Wednesday 27 November 2024
University of Ferrara
Department of Law – Aula Magna
Corso Ercole I d’Este, 37 – Ferrara (Italy)

On Wednesday, November 27, 2024, at the Festival of Migrations held at the University of Ferrara, Monica Massari and Silvia Di Meo from the University of Milan participated in the workshop on “Migrant Memories. Why and How to Make Memory of Migration” during which they presented the preliminary results of the ongoing research under the PRIN2022 TRAMIGRART project with a presentation entitled ”From Cutro to Tunisia: Policies of Remembrance and Forgetting across the Mediterranean.”
Full details can be found in the programme attached.

Friday 15 March 2024
University of Milan
Seminar Room ‘Giorgio Pizzutto’, DEMM
Via Conservatorio, 7 – Milan (Italy)

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The workshop “Social Research and Artistic Practices: Critical Views on Languages, Methods and Forms of Knowledge Production” held at the University of Milan on 15 March 2024 intended to weave a dialogue between researchers and artists involved from different perspectives and professional practices in that border zone between art and social research, questioning complex social issues at the core center of a number of research projects promoted by our research group based at the Department of International Legal and Historical-Political Studies on migration, diaspora, memory and borders. These projects propose collaborative models of knowledge production that attempt to overcome traditional dichotomies between theoretical and practical forms of knowledge and are inspired by a deep public vocation.
Speakers: Monica Massari (University of Milan), Gianluca Gatta (University of Milan, The New School), Alessandra Cianelli (artist and researcher), Opher Thomson (writer and videomaker), Alexandra D’Onofrio (University of Manchester), Costanza Meli (art historian and curator, ISOLE Association), Maria Nadotti (journalist and writer), Barbara Spadaro (University of Liverpool), Anna Lisa Tota (University of Roma Tre).