Mind the Map
Visibility and invisibility represent crucial categories of analysis in migration studies. However, the multiple manifestations of in-visibility can make it difficult to precisely define them. [...]
Ze haya be-leil Shabbat, The eve of the Shabbat
In the late 1940s, the Jewish community of Libya was the smallest in the North African region. An estimated Jewish population of about 30,000 individuals [...]
Storyboard of Rachele Abravanel
With the kindly collaboration of Rachele’s daughter Manuela Buaron and the CDEC Foundation (Milan) The genesis and development of the next two creative maps is [...]
Mindili (my handkerchief)
The threads of Rachele’s most precious map were wevead by the hands of Ms Souad, a woman who also crossed the Mediterranean. In [...]
Digital Storyboard
Rachele’s story passed from hand to hand and another visualization took form. In this case, I asked Verena Resch, graphic designer, to transform the Storyboard Rachele Abravanel by [...]
Mapping Roots, Charting Routes
Jewish Migrations from North Africa and the Middle East to Milan (1940s-1970s) The digital visualisation Mapping Roots, Charting Routes concerns the specific case of Jewish [...]
International workshop 6-7 October 2021
Across Borders and Boundaries. Jewish Be-longings in the Mediterranean Space and Beyond At the intersection of Jewish, postcolonial and migration studies, the workshop Across Border [...]
International Conference Digital Memory – Digital History – Digital Mapping
When: 22.–24. SEPTEMBER 2021 Where: Online-Webex Registration: office.cjs(at)uni-graz.at Download the program With Laura Brazzo and Martina Melilli, we present the panel The AesthEt(h)ics of the [...]
Maps, mappings and cartographic imaginings
The latest issue of From the European South 8 (2021) has been published, on Maps, mappings and cartographic imaginings by Farah Polato and Tania Rossetto. [...]
Narratives of Being Jewish in the Middle East
Austrian Academy of Sciences - Insitute for Iranian StudiesVienna 3-4 May 2021 Glad to learn from this inspiring international workshop organised by Dr. Ariane Sadjed, [...]