[ecrea] CFP for Mob-ility Symposium, Casa Artom, Venice

  WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY

Mob-ility Symposium



October 10, 2014

Casa Artom

Venice, Italy



Casa Artom in Venice, Italy, is a beautiful palace on the Grand Canal. 
The house is named after Camillo Artom, who left Italy under the Fascist 
regime and found refuge in North Carolina, where the medical school at 
Wake Forest University granted him a visa. He thanked Wake Forest by 
donating Casa Artom to the University. The consulate of the Unites 
States in Venice was located there before WFU.


The story of Camillo Artom is one of mobility, the theme of the 
Mob-ility Symposium, to be held on October 10, 2014. The Symposium is an 
opportunity to reflect on the movement of persons, ideas, traditions, 
goods, and the political, social, and cultural ramifications of 
mobility, as they relate to the changing practices in travel, the 
environment, social-economic status, and technology.



These often include, but are not limited to, discussion of citizenship, 
immigration, diasporas, belonging, and place. Specifically, the 
Symposium invites a focus on the people who move (the ‘mob’ in 
mobility): migrants, travelers, tourists, temporary citizens, and asylum 
seekers, refugees, stateless people. Venice is a perfect site for the 
‘Mob-ility Symposium’ as a historic trade city, a merchants’ harbor 
where people have always come and gone.



Our keynote speaker is Dima Mohammed, a Palestinian argumentation 
scholar who is currently working at the Argumentation Lab of the 
Instituto de Filosofia da Nova at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 
Portugal. Her domain of specialization includes argumentation theory, 
philosophy of language, persuasion research and political philosophy.



We invite papers, paper abstracts, discussion panels, and encourage 
creative submissions related to all aspects of mobility, including:



·         Migration, immigration, emigration

·         Diaspora, exile, refuge, asylum

·         Citizenship rights, nationality, borders

·         Socio-economic status

·         Travel, transportation

·         Technology, mobile modes of communication

·         Environment, sustainability

·         Security, surveillance



Papers must not exceed 25 pages and must include a title, the 
author’s/s’ affiliation, and contact information.



Paper Abstracts must not exceed 2 pages and must include a title, the 
author’s/s’ affiliation, and contact information.



Discussion Panels or Performances/Creative Expressions must include a 
250-word rationale, a 250-word abstract of each proposed paper or 
contribution, and a list of presenters with affiliation and contact 
information.


We encourage submissions from faculty, students, artists, activists, 
practitioners, and community members.



Thanks to the Provost's Office for Global Affairs, the Symposium is free 
and open to the public. Space is limited.



All submissions are due July 31, 2014


Send/Email all submissions to:

Alessandra Von Burg

(beaslea /at/ wfu.edu)

Department of Communication

Box 7347, Reynolda Station

Wake Forest University

Winston-Salem, NC 27109


For more information visit: 
http://www.stochasticcitizenship.org/mob-ility-symposium.html

--
Alessandra Beasley Von Burg
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Communication
Curriculum Director, Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Institute
Director, Where Are You From? Project
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, NC



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