The ITHACA Final Conference will be held in Brussels on 30 January 2025 at the Royal Flemish Theatre.   The ITHACA team is navigating towards the conclusion of this 4-year project, which has enriched many with its activities: the researchers, historians, sociologists, anthropologists, geographers who have collected, analysed and transferred to its database rich and [...]

On October 3 and 4, the ITHACA partners gathered in Rethymno (Crete) at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies for the last policy council of the project, together with an exceptional group of stakeholders.   The aim was to gather concrete suggestions to use archives of past and present narratives for policies and projects, routines and [...]

The 18 finalists of the ITHACA Diary Contest presented their works during the ceremony on September 13, 2024. The finalists’ works will be part of the next ITHACA Diaries e-book.   In 2012 the life story contest DIMMI Multimedia Migrant Diaries (www.dimmidistoriemigranti.it) was launched for the first time to collect and disseminate self-narration stories by [...]

The fourth and last ITHACA training session was held last March in Holland, at the premises of ITHACA partner University of Leiden. Marlou Schrover, Andrew Shield and Jamel Buhari were the protagonists of three lectures that became part of the ITHACA Massive Open Online Course.   Three main questions led off the fourth ITHACA training [...]

During the latest ITHACA consortium meeting held in Tunisia in June 2024, the ITHACA team left to Guermassa, a small village close to Tataouine, 6 hours south-east from Tunis by car. Here they visited the fieldwork of one of the ITHACA narratives of the present tasks, inaugurating the visual-tactile artistic archive of a women cooperative, [...]

If you are a practitioner, student, researcher, journalist, policy makers interested in migrations, the ITHACA Massive Open Online Courseware offers you the chance to learn from the experience of an international group of experts in archival science, anthropology, sociology, and history.   Migrations and forced population displacements are crucial phenomena in the contemporary world. The [...]

The ITHACA project is one of the 84 scientific projects selected by Sorbonne University's SUAVES ANR project to build an art-science photography exhibition. This is a scientific mediation and communication project that aims to establish a dialogue between scientists and photographers in order to disseminate their research to a wider and more diverse audience.   [...]

In September 2024, the annual celebration to award the Pieve Prize to the most significant diary among those collected by the National Diary Archive will be held in Pieve Santo Stefano (province of Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy). The event, which will reach its 40th edition this year, has been enriched since 2012 with a significant addition [...]

All those who want to share a personal migration story are invited to participate in the ITHACA Diary Contest. The main aim of the ITHACA Diary Contest is to develop a new narrative of migration seen through the migrants’ own eyes and their multiple points of view. The deadline is the 30th of April.   [...]

The ITHACA international call for migrant stories is open!   With the final aim to promote the peace and intercultural dialogue, we invite participants to share their autobiographical accounts whether written, video/audio recorded or drawn. The written contributions can be delivered either in French, English, Arabic, Greek. The most meaningful narratives will be published in [...]

• Consider qualitative and archival research as a chance to formulate the “right” questions in one’s daily work. • Build a research-related stakeholder map (including universities, research centers, foundations, CSOs, NGOs, journalists and communicators) when planning your activities. • Use research results to deconstruct mainstream narratives. • Declare what analytic lens you use to read [...]

…The next day, accompanied by my uncle, I went to get my passport and it was ready within a week. I looked at it. I never thought I would own one. None of my friends ever had one. I felt so cool! But my enthusiasm didn’t last long. It was not enough just to have [...]

Six unique research experiences were shared around the topic of ‘Methods of collecting and preserving migration narratives through the experience of “potential migrants’. The session was hosted by the Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane (Morocco) the last June and its protagonist were six ITHACA researchers and three experts from our sister projects Opportunities and Bridges. [...]

Thanks to the ITHACA project, the national contest DIMMI (DIMMI di memorie migrant, Tell me of migrant memories) extends beyond the Italian borders. Originally promoted in Italy by the Region of Tuscany in 2012 to raise public awareness and involvement in issues such as peace and intercultural dialogue, in collaboration with the ITHACA partner Archive of [...]

How research – and, more specifically, how the archival and qualitative research carried out by ITHACA – can and should dialogue with policy makers and effectively inform policies and better practices?   This question was asked to more than 150 stakeholders during 20 policy councils held in Italy (Modena, Milan and Rome), Greece (Athens), The [...]

What is the right question to ask? Asked Maria Teresa, a young practitioner working at the Regional Programme for Interculture and Health in Emilia Romagna, Italy. Her reaction itself is, in truth, the answer to the issue of “how can qualitative and archival research help practitioners and policy makers to better plan their work and [...]

  On 1, 2 and 3 July, the ITHACA Special Policy Council was held in cooperation with AISO - the Italian Association of Oral History - and other partners including ANPI. The initiative was part of the “L'Archivio delle Voci” project promoted by the Municipalities of Fanano and Sestola and supported by the Emilia-Romagna Region [...]

Call for papers for the mid-term conference entitled "New Challenges to Feminism and Gender Research" that will take place in Milan, Italy, at the University of Milano-Bicocca, from the 13th to the 14th of June, 2022. The conference of the RN33 - Women’s and Gender Studies features keynote lectures, plenary discussions, paper sessions, a round table, [...]

Local, national and international Policy Councils are at the very core of ITHACA. Organised in 7 partner-countries (France, Netherlands, Greece, Morocco, Tunisia, Italy, Azerbaijan) they are participative events that provide an operational base for the entire project. They involve researchers from the consortium together with invited academic researchers, practitioners, policy makers and migrants. The coming [...]

The H2020 ITHACA project focuses on narratives of migration in both past and present, analysing them in a rigorous historical framework, through an interdisciplinary, comparative, and transnational approach. ITHACA aims to create a digital platform, that brings together migration narratives from the 15th century to the present, enhancing the historical documentation and the testimonies of [...]

We invite you to the upcoming Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminars (LIMS) talk entitled "Internationalism, Protectionism, Xenophobia: The Second International’s Migration Debate (1889–1914)" with Daan Musters (The Council for Public Administration), which will take place online on Friday, 17th of December 2021, from 12:30 to 14:00 (CET). Between 1889 and 1914, the Second International (SI) united [...]

BCM2021 Online Event: Women, Memory, and Resistance after the Colonial Past   On Friday, 19th of November, 2021 at 17:30 (CET), the Horizon 2020 project ITHACA - Interconnecting Histories and Archives for Migrant Agency: Entangled Narratives Across Europe and the Mediterranean Region, will participate in Bookcity Milano 2021, in the framework of the online event [...]

Do not miss out on the upcoming Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminars (LIMS) book talk entitled "The Christian Slaves of Depok: A Colonial Tale Unravels", with author Dr. Nonja Peters from Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands / John Curtin Institute of Public Policy, Curtin University, Western Australia, on Thursday, 18th of November 2021, [...]

On Tuesday, 16th of November, 2021 at 5 pm (CET), Jalal Al Husseini, associate research fellow in political sociology at the French Institute of the Near East (IFPO), ITHACA member and a freelance consultant, and Solenn Al Majali, Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at Aix-Marseille University and research assistant at the CNRS within the Horizon 2020 [...]

Do not miss out on the hybrid event, entitled "Palestinian Refugees in International Law (OUP, 2020)" with Lex Takkenberg, former Chief of Ethics Office, UNRWA and Francesca P. Albanese, international lawyer, researcher and author, Georgetown University, on Monday, 8th of November 2021, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. The event is organized in partnership with the [...]

On Tuesday, 26th of October 2021, ITHACA - Interconnecting Histories and Archives for Migrant Agency: Entangled Narratives Across Europe and the Mediterranean Region will participate in the workshop entitled "Mobility and Environment: For an Environmental History of Italian Migrations", which will take place at the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Studies at the University of [...]

The online archival training session for the consortium members is dedicated to reflect on the methodological and scientific problems raised by the sources, that will be the subject of the work of implementation of the future activities connected with the ITHACA - Interconnecting Histories and Archives for Migrant Agency: Entangled Narratives Across Europe and the [...]

Leiden University, the partner of the Horizon 2020 project ITHACA - Interconnecting Histories and Archives for Migrant Agency: Entangled Narratives Across Europe and the Mediterranean Region, organizes the Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminars (LIMS). LIMS forms a platform for those working on migration-related topics at Leiden University, which focuses on stimulating further discussion across disciplines on [...]

More news regarding ITHACA project! Earlier today a workshop on Ethical Guidelines was jointly organized by our partner Università degli Studi di Milano and our coordinator Unimore - Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia. During this workshop, the consortium members had the chance to discuss on the project's ethical issues and data management. Partners had also the chance to discuss on available research tools and resources and [...]

On 24-26 June 2021 the University of Milan will host the on-line International Conference “Mediterranean Crossings: Refusal and Resistance in Uncertain Times”, jointly organized by Escapes, Department of International, Legal, Historical-Political Studies, Department of Philosophy “Piero Martinetti”, AMM – Archive of migrant memories; and in cooperation with ITHACA - Interconnecting Histories and Archives for Migrant Agency: [...]

Our Horizon 2020 project, ITHACA: Interconnecting Histories and Archives for Migrant Agency: Entangled Narratives Across Europe and the Mediterranean Region, had officially started with the completion of the project’s Kick off Meeting during the last week of April 2021. The ITHACA project focuses on narratives of and on migrants both in the past and in [...]