Events on Jacopo Anderlini

Working Group 'Digital Borders'

Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Invited speaker and workshop coordinator of the Working Group “Digital Borders” at the ASGI Border Camp “Re-Writing Borders. Future Tense, Past Present”, Convitto Palmieri, Lecce, 21-23 May 2026.

Seeing Like a Machinic Border: Operational Images and their Representations

Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Paper presented with Martino Morandi (Constant VZW) in the session “Borders, Space & Migration” at the Conference on Emerging Technologies in Conflict & Peace, DIGITS — Digital Transitions & Society / ECPR Critical Peace & Conflict Standing Group, University of Nicosia, 18-19 May 2026.

A Counterdictionary of the Border: Words and Images from the Central Mediterranean

Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Paper presented with Luca Giliberti in the panel “Border Imageries” at the international conference “Negotiating Borders Through Art”, Department of the Arts, University of Bologna, 15-17 May 2026.

Infrastructuring solidarity

Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Discussant for the “Infrastructuring solidarity” session at the ERC SOLROUTES Intermediate Conference, University of Genoa, 24-27 November 2025.

Rethinking Multi-sited Ethnography: Contemporary Methodological Challenges and Innovations

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Organized and chaired a methodological session focusing on innovations in multi-sited ethnography, examining how researchers navigate the complexities of studying phenomena that span multiple locations, institutions, and scales.

Performing the Unspoken: Theatre of the Oppressed as Research Methodology with Young Tunisians Exploring Migration Imaginaries

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A contribution examining the application of Theatre of the Oppressed as a research methodology to explore migration imaginaries among young Tunisians, investigating how performative approaches can reveal unspoken narratives and lived experiences of migration.

"Saving Lives", Securing Borders. Anti-trafficking Narratives and Border Practices in Southern Italy

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A contribution analyzing the complex relationship between “saving lives” humanitarian discourse and border securitization practices in Southern Italy, with particular focus on anti-trafficking narratives and their implementation in contemporary border control.

Conducting Qualitative Research in Contexts of Violence

Wed, 07 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This invited presentation explored the methodological and ethical complexities of conducting ethnographic research in contexts of violence, drawing on extensive fieldwork experience in European border zones and migrant reception facilities.

The Humanitarian Border Revisited: Anti-trafficking Discourse and Border Practices at the Southern Shores of Europe

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A conference presentation examining how anti-trafficking discourses operate at the southern Italian border, revealing the complex entanglement between humanitarian protection and security practices in contemporary migration governance.

Future framing from the border: participatory and multi-situated ethnographies

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Invited speaker at the research seminar “Future framing from the border: participatory and multi-situated ethnographies”, part of The Mountain Space, PRIN 2020 MOBS exhibition, University of Parma, 12 April 2025.

Attraversare i confini sociali nei mondi educativi: ricerca, didattica e metodi partecipativi

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Conference examining social boundaries in educational contexts through participatory methodologies. The event focuses on first-generation university students’ educational trajectories, employing biographical approaches and Theater of the Oppressed techniques to understand educational experiences and social mobility.

The digitalization of European borders

Fri, 05 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

An invited presentation examining the digital transformation of European border control systems, based on ethnographic research conducted along Southern Italian and Franco-Italian borders. The talk explored how digital infrastructures create new forms of categorization and control in migration governance.

Safe passages: imagining new access routes

Fri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Round table participant at the conference “From Tripoli to Rome. Imagining and building new safe passages”, Pontificia Università Gregoriana, 31 May 2024.

Collective Memories of Transit Across the Mediterranean

Tue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Participation in the scientific-organizational committee for a major international conference exploring the intersection of memory studies and Mediterranean migration, examining how experiences of transit are remembered, narrated, and transmitted across communities.

Legal-sociological clinic on Migration and Borders — seminar series

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Member of the scientific-organizational committee of the seminar series “Legal-sociological clinic on Migration and Borders”, University of Parma, March-May 2024.

Bordering and debordering processes in everyday life

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Organized and chaired a session exploring how borders operate beyond formal state boundaries, examining everyday practices of inclusion and exclusion in social, economic, and cultural spheres.

Anatomie del potere nel quotidiano - II Convegno Emancipatory Social Science

Wed, 17 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A major conference examining power dynamics in everyday life through emancipatory social science methodologies. The event featured participatory research approaches and critical analysis of structural violence in contemporary societies.

The maritime border between norms, legal practice, selection and containment practices

Fri, 01 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Invited speaker at the VIII National Conference of PhD Students in Social Sciences, University of Catania, 1-2 December 2023.

Ambiguities and aporias of Sicilian agriculture between migrant labor exploitation and territorial transformations: the cases of Messina and Syracuse

Thu, 14 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Paper presented with Tindaro Bellinvia at the XIV Conference of Environmental Sociology “Crisis and Complexity”, Ortigia, Syracuse, 14-16 September 2023.

In-memorare. Reopening the future through ethnographic practices. A case study on the border

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Paper presented with Vincenza Pellegrino at the V National SISCC Conference “Possible worlds. Between crises, conflicts and creative practices”, Bari, 22-23 June 2023.

Towards a racialization of European space? Exploitation and resistance in agricultural economies

Thu, 15 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Organized and chaired a session examining how racialization processes operate in European agricultural economies, bringing together ethnographic studies of migrant labor and spatial segregation in rural contexts.

Conceptualizing solidarity

Thu, 30 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

A theoretical presentation exploring new conceptual frameworks for understanding solidarity in migration contexts, based on multi-sited ethnographic research along European borders and migration routes.

Legal-sociological clinics on Migration and Borders — seminar series

Wed, 01 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Member of the scientific-organizational committee of the seminar series “Legal-sociological clinics on Migration and Borders”, University of Parma, March-May 2023.

The racialization of space: the intersection between home and work in rural informal settlements

Mon, 06 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Paper presented at the conference “Bitter land. Exploitation processes and forms of resistance of migrant workers in agriculture”, University of Milan, 6 February 2023.

The welcoming of refugees and grassroots solidarity

Sun, 27 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Member of the scientific-organizational committee of the international conference “The welcoming of refugees and grassroots solidarity. State of research and best practices in Europe and Canada”, University of Genoa and INRS, 27-28 November 2022.

Bridling life, controlling bodies: inclusion, exclusion, filtering of circulations on European territory. The Sicilian case

Fri, 29 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Paper presented at the seminar “Work, mobility and migration. A seminar starting from Yann Moulier Boutang’s concept of bridled wage earner”, University of Bologna, 29 April 2022.

To Play or Be Played? Uncovering Gamification Techniques

Fri, 25 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Organizer and speaker of the seminar “To Play or Be Played? Uncovering Gamification Techniques” at the 26th Conference of the Disruption Network Lab “The Kill Cloud”, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, 25-27 March 2022.

EURODAC, hotspots, repatriation routes: (trans)formations of socio-technical assemblages of the European border regime

Tue, 31 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Organizer and chair of the session “EURODAC, hotspots, repatriation routes: (trans)formations of socio-technical assemblages of the European border regime”, Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference 2021, 31 August - 3 September 2021.

The liminality of the hotspot: between circulation and containment

Tue, 31 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000

A conference presentation analyzing the hotspot system as a liminal border technology, examining how these facilities create new forms of spatio-temporal governance that both enable and constrain migrant mobility.

Criss-crossing digital frontiers in social sciences

Mon, 15 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

This workshop, organized by the Visual Sociology Laboratory (University of Genoa) and NetHood (Zurich), explored appropriate methodologies in digital social research as a set of situated tactics to overcome social boundaries and positions in the field.

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Chair: Jacopo Anderlini (University of Genoa, C.I.R.C.E.)

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Doing research in social sciences with/on the “digital”: Questioning digital ethnography
How I learned to stop hacking and fear the computer: Emotional practices in the cultural history of digital technologies
On boundary objects for bridging research and action on digital empowerment
Hacker pedagogy for hybrid spaces: “Knowing thyself is knowing your tools”

Fitful Circulations: Unauthorised Movements in the Sicilian Border Zone

Thu, 14 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Invited speaker at the CeMig Research Colloquium Winter Term 2020/21, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 14 January 2021.

The Limits of Hospitality. Processes of Inclusion and Exclusion in Contemporary European Societies

Fri, 20 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

A presentation examining how hospitality functions as a political technology in European migration governance, analyzing the mechanisms through which inclusion and exclusion are simultaneously enacted in contemporary border regimes.

Borderwork Troubles: Filtering Apparatus at the Hotspot

Fri, 12 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000

A conference presentation analyzing the hotspot system as a complex filtering apparatus, examining the operational troubles and contradictions that emerge in contemporary European border governance practices.

Between walls and hotspots. The reconfiguration of European internal and external borders

Tue, 13 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Member of the scientific-organizational committee of the international conference “Between walls and hotspots. The reconfiguration of European internal and external borders”, University of Genoa, 13 June 2017.