Homo Sapiens, Homo Itinerans
Professor Alessandro Monsutti has been invited to give a keynote speech entitled Homo Sapiens, Homo Itinerans during the T4EU Common European Heritage Week. Organised by T4Europe, an alliance of eleven universities that have joined their forces to create a common multilingual campus across the continent, the conference will take place at the University of Trieste in Italy between the 24th and the 28th of February. Alessandro Monsutti will critically discuss the significance of migration and borders in today's world.
Migration has become nowadays a hot topic on the mediatic and political scene, a topic that is deeply polarizing public opinion. Various dimensions will be considered to debunk some dominant narratives: the long history of human mobility; the transition from colonial empires to nation-states; rapidly increasing economic inequalities and demographic disparities; the persistence and fragmentation of conflicts. The migrant, more specifically the refugee, might be the political figure of our time, a signifier of the international and intranational relations characterizing today's world.