Activities

List of Activities

15 march 2019

Activity

University of Pavia

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15 February 2024

Together with the Centro Milano Donna – Municipio 8, WAD Reasearch Team will coordinate a public roundtable regarding perspectives on well-being in Milan among women with experiences of migration/mobility.

The meeting aims to open a possibility of sharing between people who live the city, associations, but also activists, operators, and volunteers, in order to better understand the challenges and frontiers of wellbeing in everyday city life and to imagine scenarios of individual, collective or networked transformation.

Poster and programme available here: https://anthrodaymilano.formazione.unimib.it/home-page/anthroday-edizione-2024/programma-2024/ 

15 December 2023

SIAA - Paper Presentations

XI SIAA Conference - University of Perugia (Italy)

WAD Team Members presented the following papers to the  XI Conference of the Italian Society of Applied Anthropology (SIAA) “SOCIAL USES OF ANTHROPOLOGY. Heritage, Health, Territories”:
Consoli, G., Desideri, sfide e difficoltà nella vita associativa di donne nella diaspora marocchina in Lombardia 

 

17 October 2023

Together with the gynaecologist Luca Bello, Aurora Massa (WAD Team member) will talk about practices, imaginaries and sterotypes around female genital modifications.

Poster and programme available here: https://wad.unipv.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Ginecologia-Z-17-10-2023.pdf 

1 December 2023

Organised inside the FAR 2022 “Ties, Reproduction and Mobility Borders (Project coordinator: Selenia Marabello) with the collaboration of LEA (Laboratorio di Etno-Antropologia) and WAD Research Team (Marco Gardini [P.I.], Aurora Massa, Serena Scarabello, Giulia Consoli) the FAR final workshop “Framing Mobility and Motherhood” will bring together national and international scholars discussing mothering practices through mobility experiences on a global scale.

Poster and programme available here: https://wad.unipv.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/locandina-workshop-Unimore.pdf

5 October 2023

Together with the “Centro Studi Popoli Extraeuropei Cesare Bonacossa” (C.S.P.E.), the WAD project is pleased to invite you to the seminar held by Pier Giorgio Solinas with contributions from Berardino Palumbo, Claudia Mattalucci and Valentina Fusari. The event will be introduced by Pierluigi Valsecchi and chaired by Marco Gardini [Wad P.I.].

Poster and programme available here: https://wad.unipv.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Locandina-Solinas-5_10.pdf

3 April 2023

Organised by WAD Research Team (Marco Gardini [P.I.], Aurora Massa, Serena Scarabello, Giulia Consoli) the first Women Of African Diaspora International Worshop will bring together scholars and actors from the civil society interested in exploring more deeply women diasporic trajectories and narratives alongside relatedness and reproductive practices, desires, difficulties, and constraints.

Poster and programme available here: https://wad.unipv.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Workshop-Wad_-3-April-2023-poster.pdf

21 - 23 September 2023

SIAC Panel - (Re)thinking “the social” through relatedness and reproductive practices

Together with Alessandra Gribaldo, Giulia Consoli (WAD Team member) will coordinate the panel n.9 at the IV Conference of the Italian Society of Cultural Anthropology “The Return of the Social”

Panel programme available here: https://www.siacantropologia.it/panel-09/

21- 23 September 2023

SIAC - Paper Presentations

WAD Team Members presented the following papers to the  IV Conference of the Italian Society of Cultural Anthropology “The Return of the Social”:
Gardini, M., Violare le interdizioni statutarie: un’etnografia delle unioni “proibite” sugli altipiani del Madagascar

Massa, A., Le difficoltà del ritorno. Rituali e homemaking tra le donne migranti dall’Eritrea

Scarabello, S., “They said my son is afraid of white people … how is that possible, if white hands have helped him to be born?”. Black mothering experiences among second-generation women of Ghanaian descent in Italy

31 May-3 June 2023

IX ECAS Conference - Cologne (Germany)

Together with Chiara Quagliariello, Serena Scarabello (WAD Team member) will coordinate the Anth14 panel at the IX European Conference On African Studies “African Futures”. Discussant: Marco Gardini (WAD P.I.). Registration is now open: https://ecasconference.org/2023/  

Panel programme available here: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/ecas2023/p/12354# 

2nd June 2023

ECAS - Paper Presentations

WAD Team Members presented the following papers to the IX European Conference On African Studies:
     Consoli, G., “Here, one was enough!” Exploring negotiations between reproductive and mobility desires among women of an Italian Moroccan diaspora in Lombardy
     Massa, A., Making future, making place. Mothering practices of migrants from the Horn of Africa in Europe
     Scarabello, S., How to be(come) a good mother: an intergenerational perspective on motherhood experiences among women of Ghanaian descent in Italy

8th June - 10 June 2023

IX ERQ Conference - Trento (Italy)

WAD Team Members presented the following papers to the IX Ethnography and Qualitative Research International Conference:
     Consoli, G., “Was it because of my strange name?” Intergenerational struggles in childbirth and childrearing of two mothers and two daughters within the Moroccan diaspora in Italy
     Scarabello, S., “We travel for their future!” Mothering and mobility choices among women of the Italo-Ghanaian Diaspora

15 December 2022

Together with Federica Tarabusi and Davide Falcone, Giulia Consoli (WAD Team member) organised and discussed the “Santi Migranti” film presentation at the X National Conference of the Italian Society of Applied Anthropology (SIAA) “Rethinking Sustainability through Applied Anthropology”.

Designed by ReconLab

3 April 2023

Organised by WAD Research Team (Marco Gardini [P.I.], Aurora Massa, Serena Scarabello, Giulia Consoli) the first Women Of African Diaspora International Worshop will bring together scholars and actors from the civil society interested in exploring more deeply women diasporic trajectories and narratives alongside relatedness and reproductive practices, desires, difficulties, and constraints.

Poster and programme available here: https://wad.unipv.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Workshop-Wad_-3-April-2023-poster.pdf

31 May-3 June 2023

IX ECAS Conference - Cologne (Germany)

Together with Chiara Quagliariello, Serena Scarabello (WAD Team member) will coordinate the Anth14 panel at the IX European Conference On African Studies “African Futures”. Discussant: Marco Gardini (WAD P.I.). Registration is now open: https://ecasconference.org/2023/  

Panel programme available here: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/ecas2023/p/12354#