Archipelago - Humanistic Thematic Network

Dear Archipelago Friends and Network teams,

In two days you will be leaving for Pisa. The weather is very 'Mediterranean': temperatures of 35° C. are forseen during our meeting. So please bring your 'summer clothes'.

We certainly hope to have a very good meeting heat, or no heat. We know that the Archipelago is the best place for sharing, exchange and synergies, across the Greater Humanistic Area.

Our programme - pdf | doc - is now in 'Pre-final version. We will be having welcome speeches, a key-note address, special TN presentations, reports, discussion and a round table in Plenary session. Another part of the meeting will consist of work in discussion groups, where we hope that each person will give a contribution based on both his/her personal experience and on the particular ways that her/his Thematic Network looks at the issues connected with the general theme "Im/Emigration and Mobility in European Culture, Society and Citizenship".

Several participants have written to tell us that they wish to make a presentation on a specific topic. And maybe others wish to do so but have not written (please do so if this is your desire).

We know that this is a busy time for everyone, but hope that everyone will take a minute before leaving for Pisa to write down what particular contribution their Thematic Network makes, in their opinion, to understanding the Im/Emigration and Mobility issue.

As you can see from the programme we plan 5 work groups, focusing on 1) Immigation (to Europe); 2) Emigration (from Europe), 3) Mobility within the EU; 4) teaching/learning about
Im/emigration and Mobilty; and 5)Im/Emigration and Mobility as regards Images of Europe.
Also each group will examine and discuss other issues, plans and recommendations for the future of the Archipelago.

If you have a particular preference for the work group you want to participate in, could you please tell us now? The numbers will not be entirely rigid, but we hope that they will all be more or less of the same size. So please if you have strong feelings about this, let us know beforehand.

For the rest, we look forward to seeing you in Pisa on 29 June.

Kathy and 'the Pisa team'