CISEI INITIATIVES

• 8 September 2011: Torino,  Museo Diffuso della Resistenza, della Deportazione, della Guerra, dei Diritti e della Libertà - “On-line Archive of Emigrants”. Conference  for the presentation of CISEI project, developed with the support of Compagnia di San Paolo.
  
  Participants: Guido Vaglio – Museum Director,  Giuseppina De Santis – Executive Board Compagnia di San Paolo, Fabio Capocaccia – CISEI President, Federico Croci – Genoa University, Carlo Stiaccini – Research Coordinator CISEI, Raffaele Maurici - Creative Director CISEI, Valentina Bruzzone - Researcher CISEI.


• 12 May 2011: Genova, MuMA Galata Museo del Mare – “Tra l’Appennino e l’America”. Presentation of Marco Portaluppi book, CISEI collection “Dal porto al mondo” n.5, Edizioni Diabasis.
  
  Participants: Maria Paola Profumo – MuMA President, Fabio Capocaccia – CISEI President, Antonio Gibelli – CISEI Scientific Committee President, Carlo Stiaccini - Research Coordinator CISEI.



• 6 May 2011: Genova, MuMA Galata Museo del Mare – “The Warmth of Other Suns – Past and Present Migrations”. Conference  for the presentation of the book by Isabel Wilkerson, national correspondent and Head office at The New York Time, Winner of the Pulitzer for Journalism 1994.
  
  Participants: Maria Paola Profumo - Presidente MuMA, Fabio Capocaccia - Presidente CISEI, Anna Maria Saiano - Agente Consolare degli Stati Uniti d’America a Genova, Ferdinando Fasce - Università degli Studi di Genova e Comitato Scientifico CISEI, Andrea Chiappori - Responsabile per Genova della Comunità di Sant’Egidio, Andrea Torre - Direttore del Centro Studi MEDI’.
  

• 24 November 2011: Genova, Biblioteca del Consiglio Regionale della Liguria – “Genoa, emigrants Port during Italian Unity”. One-day Seminar on Genoa port of emigration.
  
  Partecipants: Fabio Capocaccia - Presidente CISEI, Antonio Gibelli - Università degli Studi di Genova, Emilio Franzina - Università degli Studi di Verona, Francesco Surdich - Università degli Studi di Genova, Marco Doria - Università degli Studi di Genova, Danilo Cabona - Autorità Portuale di Genova, Chiara Vangelista - Università degli Studi di Genova, Franco Sborgi - Università degli Studi di Genova, Carlo Stiaccini - Università degli Studi di Genova, Research coordinator CISEI, Silvia Martini - Autorità Portuale di Genova.

“AEMI CONFERENCE” CISEI participation  to the AEMI Annual Meetings:

• Annual Conference 2011 – Aalborg, Danimarca.
  

  Partecipants for CISEI : Carlo Stiaccini, Research coordinator CISEI; Francesca Goglino, CISEI Researcher; Valeria Cuneo, CISEI Researcher; Valentina Buzzone, CISEI Researcher.

• Annual Conference 2010 – Bilbao, Spagna
  
  Fabio Capocaccia, Chairman CISEI and Raffaele Maurici, Information technology CISEI “Knowledge Management System (KMS) for italian emigration”.


• Annual Conference 2009 - Hamburg e Bremerhaven, Germania
  
  Carlo Stiaccini, Research coordinator CISEI, and Francesca Goglino, Researcher CISEI “Affentheater: italian itinerant migration around Europe between nineteenth and twentieth century"


• Annual Conference 2008 - Genova
  
  Antonio Gibelli, University of Genoa, Chairman and Scientific Committee CISEI, “Genoa: the Door To the Americas”.
  Carlo Stiaccini, Research coordinator CISEI, “A Documentary Heritage: the Study of the Nautical Logbooks”.
  Alfonso Assini, State Archive of Genoa, Scientific Committee CISEI, “Sources for Migration History from the Genoa State Archive”.
  Adele Maiello, University of Genoa, Scientific Committee CISEI , “ Maritime Public Health Sources, Genoa 1830s – 1850”.
  Francesca Carminati, Front office and public relations CISEI, “Maritime Public Health Sources, Genoa 1830s-1850”.
  Ferdinando Fasce, University of Genoa, Scientific Committee CISEI, “Ansaldo & Co. Business Records as a Source for Migration History”.
  Francesco Surdich, University of Genoa, Scientific Committee CISEI, “The Historiography on Ligurean Migration: A Critical Re-Appraisal”.

MUSEO NAZIONALE DELL’EMIGRAZIONE ITALIANA (MEI)

CISEI collaborated with the Foreign Ministry for the creation of the National Museum which has its seat in Vittoriano in Roma.  Here  CISEI On line Archive can be consulted. CISEI President is also President of the Scientific Committee of the National Museum who has contributed to the catalogue museum with a paper on “Il viaggio dell’emigrante: verso un archivio nazionale informatizzato”.