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Carmine is the Legal Policy Analyst. He conducts international research on law and policy on migration, refugee integration and anti-discrimination at national and EU level. He also contributes to the European network of legal experts in gender equality and non-discrimination.

Carmine holds a PhD in EU law at Middlesex University of London, a Master’s degree in Law and a Master of Arts in International Public Affairs from LUISS University of Rome. Carmine previously worked as policy and advocacy officer at the European Disability Forum.

I am a second year Techne funded PhD candidate examining the representation of death and displacement in Twenty-first century memorial artworks.

Twenty-first century mass deaths of people displaced by global economics and conflict in Lampedusa and along the U.S.-Mexico border have led to problematic intersections of art and memorial culture which have raised questions of commemoration practices, disposability and commodification.

Examining contrasting artworks (from figurative painting to installations using bodily remains and underwater sculptures), my thesis explores interdisciplinary questions of aesthetics and economics bound up in (memorial) art representing the deaths of economically-displaced individuals. I explore how patterns of exploitation and disposability rooted in neoliberalism - as well as in (post)colonial exploitation and conflict - cause and fuel the mass displacement of individuals, and examine how these patterns intersect with market forces involved in artistic attempts to respond to such deaths.

I interrogate the economic cycles which (memorial) artists more-or-less knowingly express and upon which the circulation and value of their artworks depend.
I highlight how these works bring into question relationships between different cultural conceptions of death and memorialisation and also raises concerns of how art representing deaths of displaced people may express a range of impetuses – from care of the individual to displacement of responsibility.

My project brings to the fore the problematics of bearing witness to the disposability of the individual in mass displacement; and the potential commodification of the displaced dead individual in the art market.

Isabella (Bella) is finishing her final module for the European Masters of Migration and Intercultural Relations (EMMIR) as an intern for Refugees Welcome International at their branch in Rome, Italy, working mainly with domestic hospitality projects. EMMIR is a unique Afro-European Erasmus Mundus program with seven consortium members in seven different countries between Europe and Africa. Following EMMIR, Bella will pursuit her PhD in Information Science and Technology at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York.

Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology (Complutense University Madrid). Her research fields are the Migration Studies (Latin American migration, Andean migration, transnational perspective and gender, new mobilities and new Spanish migration, asylum and gender) and Development Studies. She has conducted fieldwork in Ecuador, Cape Vert, Spain and the UK. She has been Visiting Scholar at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), FLACSO-Ecuador, Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law and the Institute Latin American Studies (Freie Universität Berlin) . Furthermore, she has been Prometeo Researcher 2013-2014 in Ecuador. Finally, she has published five books authored and co-authored on migration and development and more than 30 national and international publications specialized (scientific articles and book chapters).

I am a social and political psychologist working through critical approches (anticolonial, CRT, liberation psychology among others). My research focus on collective action, identity, migration, discrimination by prioritizing a research praxis from below, through lay epistemologies of oppressed but resisting people and communities. I refused to be fully encapsulated in the neoliberal university system. Instead, through scientific affiliations, I try to conduct independent research with small academic grants. I also do translations to survive economically and to support my communities.

Adriana Costa Santos is Researcher member of CESIR (Université Saint-Louis, Brussels) and PhD student. Her research projects are in the areas of contemporary migrations, public action and collective mobilisation. She holds an Anthropology Master from Université Libre de Bruxelles (2019) with a research on Downward social mobility among Syrian refugees in Brussels, and has been founder and coordinator on the field of migration projects in Brussels with BxlRefugees since 2017.