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[wd_asp id=1]Outcomes in the Mediterranean
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Currents of Change
Migration, Transit, and Outcomes in the Mediterranean
Join the Human Rights Archive and FSP for a dialogue and critical examination of the history of recent immigration in the Mediterranean and its impact on individual, local, and global migration politics, policy, and culture. Our key guest will be Malta-based Darrin Zammit Lupi, an internationally respected and award-winning photojournalist and humanitarian who has been participating in and documenting sea migration in the Mediterranean region for over ten years. Zammit Lupi will be joined by Niels Frenzen, Faculty at USC Gould School of Law and an advocate since the 1980s both for migrants crossing the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, and Holly Ackerman, Duke Librarian and scholar on sea migration.
Free and open to the public. Light lunch served. Co-sponsored by the Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute and the Kenan Refugee Project.
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Fire at Sea (Fuocoammare)
Screening, Discussion & Exhibit
7 pm, November 2, 2017
Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall
Bay 4, Smith Warehouse (Garage)
The first documentary to ever win the top award at the Berlin International Film Festival, Fire at Sea takes place in Lampedusa, a once peaceful Mediterranean island that has become a major entry point for African refugees into Europe. There, we meet Samuele, a 12-year-old boy who lives simply, climbing rocks by the shore and playing with his slingshot. Yet nearby we also witness thousands of men, women, and children trying to survive the crossing from Africa in boats that are too small for such a journey. Filmmaker Gianfranco Rose masterfully places these realities side by side, and in so doing creates a remarkable third narrative that jolts us into a new understanding of what is really happening in the Mediterranean today. The screening will be accompanied by an exhibit of works by photographer Darrin Zammit Lupi, who will participate in a post-screening discussion.
Co-sponsored by the Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute.
Speakers
Darrin Zammit Lupi
Darrin Zammit Lupi is an award-winning photojournalist and humanitarian based in Malta. As a freelancer for Reuters and others, he has covered Albania, war-torn former Yugoslavia, the South-East Asia tsunami tragedy, the refugee crisis during the war in Kosovo, issues related to the Millennium Development Goals (with a particular emphasis…...
Read MoreNiels W. Frenzen
University of Southern California
Niels Frenzen specializes in immigration and refugee law and is director of the USC Gould School of Law Immigration Clinic, which provides legal representation, pursuant to student practice rules, to transgender, gay, and bisexual immigrants seeking asylum or protection under the Convention Against Torture. Clinic students represent clients in other…...
Read MoreHolly Ackerman
Duke University
Holly Ackerman is the Librarian for Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Studies in the Duke Libraries’ Department of International and Area Studies. She is an active participant in the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM) and the Latin American Studies Association. She is the author of…...
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