#MFFPollenzo, Conferences
The packed program of the Migranti Film Festival includes many opportunities for meeting, debate and discussion. In particular, a number of conferences and debates will be held on the Saturday and Sunday of the festival.
Saturday June 10
10.30 am – Aula Magna – Conference
We Are Migrants: Experiences of Italian Migration and New International Migration in Italy
Putting down roots and changing identities
Introduced and moderated by Roberto Burdese, Slow Food Italy’s honorary president.
With:
Representatives of the Sansostese Calabresi community in Bra
Ciro Falanga, owner of Bocconciro Mozzarella Campana
Pietro Schwarz, intercultural animator with the Consorzio Monviso Solidale with Zhou Senmiao & Zhao Massimo from the Chinese community in Barge
Paolo Salsotto, president of the Parco Alpi Marittime, together with Keita Haruna, Camara Goumba and Niase Henry, asylum seekers living in Entracque and involved in socially useful work in the park
Davide Colleoni, coordinator of the organic social agricultural business “Maramao” in Canelli (AT) which employs and trains migrants and asylum seekers in farming
Hicham Ben ‘Mbarek, entrepreneur of Moroccan origin and owner of the Benheart clothing and leather company in Florence
11 am to 7.30 pm – Banca del Vino courtyard – Migrant Speakers’ Corner
Informal space where migrants, associations, local authorities and other socially concerned organizations can share different experiences of receptions, projects and initiatives from the past, present and future.
12.30 pm – Aula Magna – Meeting
UNISG Study Trips in Support of Migrant Communities
UNISG’s study trips are a chance to value the cultural heritage of a place and meet the local communities living there. The MFF will serve as a way to intercept new stories and virtuous projects from migrant communities, creating opportunities for new trips.
2.30 pm – Aula Magna – Conference
Anti-Gypsyism and Rom Migrations: Results of the European MIGROM Research
Introduced and moderated by Andrea Pieroni, professor of Food Biodiversity Sciences and Ethnobotany at the University of Gastronomic Sciences.
With:
Suzana Jovanovic, MIGROM researcher, University of Verona
Eva Rizzin, MIGROM researcher, University of Verona
Stefania Pontrandolfo, anthropology researcher, University of Verona
Leonardo Piasere, anthropology professor, University of Verona
6 pm – Church of San Vittore – Conference
Italians and Non-Italians in Prison: The Function of the Sentence, Social Re-Integration, Comprehension and the Sicomoro Project
With:
Giacinto Siciliano, director of the Opera prison in Milan
Marcella Reni, president of the Prison Fellowship Italia Onlus
Alberto Giasanti, professor of Sociology of Cultural Processes at the University of Milano-Bicocca
Marta Giorgi, assistant on the project to regenerate social value in the Lodi area and coordinator of the play Giochi di Luci e Ombre
Sunday June 11
10.30 am – Aula Magna – Conference
Political Cuisine: Hospitality, Conviviality, Diplomacy
Round table moderated by Nicola Perullo, professor of Esthetics at the University of Gastronomic Sciences, part of the “Cucina politica” PRIN 2017-2020.
With:
Francesco Mangiapane, semiologist at the University of Palermo
Sumaya Abdel Qader, Milan city councilor
Abderrahmane Amajou, coordinator of Slow Food’s “Migrants” thematic area
Francesca Peirotti, activist and member of the Association Habitat et Citoyenneté in Nice
11 am to 7.30 pm – Banca del Vino courtyard – Migrant Speakers’ Corner
Informal space where migrants, associations, local authorities and other socially concerned organizations can share different experiences of receptions, projects and initiatives from the past, present and future.
12 pm – Aula Magna – Meeting
Educating a New Culture: The Culture of Reception
Dialog between the Italian Minister for Education, Universities and Research, Valeria Fedeli, and UNISG president, Carlo Petrini.
2.30 pm – The Memories of Migrants
UNISG dean, Professor Piercarlo Grimaldi, interviews migrants to inaugurate the new category “The Memories of Migrants” within the archive of the Granaries of Memory project.
2.30 pm – Aula Magna – Debate
Understanding Immigration “Piano, Piano”
Introduced by Simone Cinotto, professor of Contemporary History at the University of Gastronomic Sciences.
With:
Don Fredo Olivero, Migrant Pastoral Office in Turin
Michela Borio and Patrizia Rickler, authors of “Piano piano” and “Piano piano 2,” texts for teaching Italian to non-Italian adults with a low education level
Marie Jeanne Balagizi, Associazione Donne dell’Africa Sub-Sahariana/second generation from Turin
Suad Omar Sheikh Esahaq, cultural mediator and Turin city councilor
4 pm – Aula Magna – Debate
New Migratory Flows: Climate Migrants, Water Wars, Low-Cost Labor
Introduced and moderated by Michele Antonio Fino, professor of Law at the University of Gastronomic Sciences.
With:
Nico Lotta, president of VIS (Volontariato Internazionale per lo Sviluppo)
Elisabetta Cipollone, coordinator of the project “Un pozzo per Andrea” in Ethiopia
Luca Mercalli, meteorologist, climatologist and chair of the Italian Meteorological Society
Christian Elia, journalist, Q Code Magazine editor and director of the Emergency study center
Carlo Petrini, president of the University of Gastronomic Sciences