Marlen Mouliou "Welcome Speech"

Migration:Cities Workshop, Athens 2017

Migration:Cities Athens Workshop 2017 – welcome speech by Migration:Cities Project Co-ordinator, Dr Marlen Mouliou

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Gegê Leme Joseph

I am a partner at Much | Media and Culture, a media and culture company working across different countries, based in São Paulo, Brazil. I am trained in architecture/urban planning through the University of São Paulo, production design in South Africa and have a masters degree in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester. I am specialised in strategic and interpretive planning, as well as in experience development for the museum, heritage and culture sectors, marrying complex content and interpretative environments which are engaging and well planned. I have developed museum concepts, exhibitions, interpretative plans, as well as products across a range of media and themes, in South Africa, Brazil and other countries since 2000.

Hospitality Response to Migration in Mexico

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Migration:Cities Workshop, Mexico 2017. Irazú Gómez Vargas has a Master in Management of Projects, by the Iberoamericana University, campus Puebla. Specialty on migration and asylum with a human … [read more]

Migration:Cities Workshop, Mexico 2017. Irazú Gómez Vargas has a Master in Management of Projects, by the Iberoamericana University, campus Puebla. Specialty on migration and asylum with a human rights perspective, University of Lanus, Argentina. Her commitment to the defense of refugees and migrants’ rights has led her to comply and collaborate on various networks al local, regional and national level. From 2008 to 2015 was responsible of the Program on Migration Issues at the Institute of Human Rights Igacio Ellacuría S.J. of the Iberoamericana University, Puebla. In 2010 academic stay at The Westchester Hispanic Coalition in New York. Her research work has been developed mainly on women and asylum seekers especially in detention. Currently is Coordinator of Incidence and Vinculation of the ONG Sin Fronteras. [hide]

Open Museums: spaces of social participation

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Migration:Cities Workshop, Mexico 2017. Inés Giménez Delgado coordinates the area of Communication of INEDIM. Is responsible for the strategic and digital communication of the organization, media … [read more]

Migration:Cities Workshop, Mexico 2017. Inés Giménez Delgado coordinates the area of Communication of INEDIM. Is responsible for the strategic and digital communication of the organization, media relations, audiovisual production and image design. For the past eight years has, been working in drugs policy, gender, human rights and political ecology with organizations such as the London International Drug Policy Consortium and the CDHM Tlachinollan, among others. Has a degree in History, a Master in Journalism and Anthropology and is studying the doctorate in Latin American Studies. [hide]

Open Museums: spaces of social participation

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Migration:Cities Workshop, Mexico 2017. Fabienne Venet is currently director of the Institute of Studies and Dissemination on Migration A.C. (INEDIM) and is Fellow Ashoka. She was coordinator of the … [read more]

Migration:Cities Workshop, Mexico 2017. Fabienne Venet is currently director of the Institute of Studies and Dissemination on Migration A.C. (INEDIM) and is Fellow Ashoka. She was coordinator of the Migration Studies Program of the Mexican Human Rights Academy (AMDH), consultant for the Regional Office in Mexico of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and founder and director of Sin Fronteras IAP. She has also been a guest scholar at the Center for Inter-American Studies and Programs (CEPI) of the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM) and member of the National Council for the Prevention of Discrimination (CONAPRED). She has worked for more than 25 years on issues of migration, asylum and human rights from civil society, seeking to promote dialogue and the development of more just and adequate public policies. [hide]

The Museum at the Centre of Arrival

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Migration:Cities Workshop, Mexico 2017. Doug Saunders is the international-affairs columnist for Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper and is the author of three books on migration and cities: Arrival … [read more]

Migration:Cities Workshop, Mexico 2017. Doug Saunders is the international-affairs columnist for Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper and is the author of three books on migration and cities: Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History is Reshaping Our World; The Myth of the Muslim Tide; and, in 2017, Maximum Canada: Why 35 Million Canadians are Not Enough. In 2016, he co-designed the Germany pavilion for the Venice Architecture Biennale on migration themes that has become a touring international museum exhibition. [hide]

Representing Amsterdam: music and migration

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Migration:Cities Workshop, Mexico 2017. Annemarie de Wildt is a historian and curator at the Amsterdam Museum. She has (co)curated many exhibitions, with a variety of objects, ofen a mix of ‘high’ and … [read more]

Migration:Cities Workshop, Mexico 2017. Annemarie de Wildt is a historian and curator at the Amsterdam Museum. She has (co)curated many exhibitions, with a variety of objects, ofen a mix of ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture and with a strong input of human stories and a focus on difcult and uneasy subjects. She has presented and written about city museums, practices and dilemma’s of curating and (contemporary) collecting, prostitution, Amsterdam’s connection to slavery as well as protest movements. [hide]