Migrations, opportunities and torments
Intro
Program
Migrations, opportunities and torments, is part of a series of panel discussions which concern current event’s matters, involving different cultures and realities from an international angle: migrations, democracy and life’s digitalisation. This series picks up and broadens a previous discourse on globalisation started by the Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement (IHEID) in Geneva.
The theme of migrations will be analysed during three panel discussions (over two days) by experts and moderators from Africa, Italy, Switzerland and the Holy See, in all of its complexity. The panel discussion’s objective is to foster critical awareness by interrogating our policies, challenging our views, co-creating better solutions on the migration phenomenon with all the opportunities and tribulations it entails.
The goal behind Migrations, opportunities and torments, is to achieve an exhaustive and multidisciplinary understanding of it; for such reasons, the panel discussion will be combined to artistic events.
At 5pm on November 17, in the ‘sala Elvetica’ of the Institute, Dimitri de Perrot will premiere in Italy his installation work Dreams & Nightmares, produced with Swiss photographer Jean Revillard.
Each panel discussion is based on the interplay between experts on migration’s issues and speakers from diverse fields (intellectuals, ethicists, writers, ambassadors, officials, councillors, ministries, cooperative members, academics, etc.) able to thoroughly study, from a multidisciplinary perspective, migration’s behaviours from a detailed point of view and thus articulate challenging questions. These individuals encourage debate and provide an opportunity for the public to have an all-round understanding of it. Abundant space will be given, for each panel discussion, to debate with the public. Both the possibility is given to participate to a single workshop or to all three of them, in order to have a better understanding on the matter.
Various convivial moments, with opportunity of networking, are planned for the two days.
In order to ensure continuity in the debate and to challenge the results, all three Migrations, opportunities and torments panel discussions are going to be critically commented – by the following experts:
– Yves Daccord, General Director of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Switzerland
– Amadou Chab Touré, Professor of Aesthetics and Art Critic, Mali
The panel discussions are organised by the Istituto Svizzero with the support of Presence Switzerland, in collaboration with the Swiss Embassy in Italy, the Swiss Embassy to the Holy See, and the Community of Sant’Egidio.
Prologue
Cinema and Migration
On November 16 two films that deal with this thematic will be projected at Cinema Trevi: Waalo Fendo – Where the Earth Freezes, directed by Mohammed Soudani [Algeria, 1997, 63’] and film presented at this year’s Locarno Film Festival: Willkommen in der Schweiz, directed by Sabine Gisiger [Switzerland, 2017, 83’].
Programme
Friday 17.11.2017 H06:30–H11:00pm
Panel discussion 1
MIGRATIONS: FACTS AND PROSPECTS
Moderator: Johan Rochel (Fellow, Istituto Svizzero 2017-2018)
Panellists:
– Giulio Cusumano, City Councillor of Palermo, Italy
– Michael Czerny, Under-secretary of the Migrants and Refugees Section, The Holy See
– Yayi Bayam Diouf, President of The Collective of Women against Illegal Migration, Senegal
– Alfonso Giordano, LUISS University, Italy
– Pietro Mona, Ambassador for development, displacement and migration at the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Switzerland
– Etienne Piguet, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
– Alain Edouard Traoré, Ex Minister, Burkina Faso
During half way of the panel discussion a buffet dinner will be served
Saturday 18.11.2017 H04:00–07:00pm
Panel discussion 2
RECEPTION AND INTEGRATION OF MIGRANTS OR THE BEHAVIOUR OF OTHERS
Moderator: Gaëlle Courtens (Journalist)
Introduction:
– Andrea De Georgio, Italian filmmaker/journalist, Mali
– Rosetta Scotto Lavina, Deputy Department Head at the Immigration and Asylum Policies Central Office, Italy
Panellists:
– Daniela Pompei, Responsible of Migration matters at Sant’Egidio, Italy
– Maurizio Zavaglia, City Councillor of Gioiosa Ionica, Italy
– Beatrice Speiser, Founder of Crescenda, Switzerland
07:00pm
Buffet dinner
Saturday 18.11.2017 H08:30–H11:30pm
Panel discussion 3
MIGRATIONS: MECHANISMS IN PLACE TO REGULATE GLOBAL ORDER
Moderator: Maud Krafft (Consultant)
Introduction:
– Andrea De Georgio, Italian filmmaker/journalist, Mali
– Federico Soda, Director of the Coordination Office for the Mediterranean, International Organization for Migration, Italy
Panellists:
– Sarah E Hayward, Councillor (Migrations), Canadian Embassy, Italy
– Alain Edouard Traoré, Ex Minister, Burkina Faso
– Luigi Maria Vignali, General Director of Italians Abroad and Migration Unit, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italy
The evening will conclude with a concert.
The panel discussions will be held in French and Italian with simultaneous translation in English.
The public can participate actively exclusively by signing up, with the possibility of attending one single workshop or all three of them.