Deaths in the Mediterranean. Bodies, traces and affections
30 January 2025. From 18:30 | Conference | Spanish | IEMed
From 2015 to 2018, Catania’s port, in the East of Sicily, has witnessed several landings of migrants. Thousands of people in danger in the sea have reached the shore. With them, hundreds of bodies that didn’t survive the journey. A small group of locals tries to name the dead and find their families. Starting from this local initiative, through an ethnographic perspective, the lecture explores the material and symbolic treatment of deaths on the European border.
A lecture by Carolina Kobelinsky, Anthropologist and Researcher at the Centre National de la recherche scientifique (CNRS, France) and member of the Laboratory of Ethnology and Comparative Sociology of the University of Nanterre. She completed a master’s degree at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris, with her thesis titled L’accueil des demandeurs d’asile. Une ethnographie de l’attente. She obtained a postdoctoral fellowship at the same EHESS. She has previously been a Deakin Visiting Fellow at the European Studies Centre (ST Antony’s College, University of Oxford) and a member of the Casa de Velázquez. Some of her publications are: Relier les rives. Sur les traces des morts en Méditerranée (ed., Éditions La Découverte, 2024), “Les traces des morts: gestion des corps retrouvés et traitement des corps absents à la frontière hispano-marocaine” (in Critique internationale nº83, 2019), and Enfermés dehors. Enquêtes sur le confinement des étrangers (ed., Éditions du Croquant, 2009).
Within the Aula Mediterrània 2024-2025 series.
Co-organised with the Master’s Degree in Urban Anthropology, Migrations and Social Intervention, URV.
Language: Spanish
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Speakers
Jordi Moreras
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Philosophy and Social Work, and Coordinator of the Master’s Degree URVOrganised by
