XVII International Workshop “culture, health, migration” - 3rd Consensus Conference on Health, Poverty and Development "Crossings: Languages and territories of a moving world”
Registrations are open for the XVII International Workshop “culture, health, migration”. This edition's title is "Crossings: languages and territories of a moving world", it will be held in Rome, at the National Research Council from 13 to 15 October 2010.
Registration is open to everybody, interested persons should fill in the following form (in Italian):
Crossings: languages and territories of a moving world
XVII International Workshop “culture, health, migration”
“Crossings” is the title of the 17th edition of the Workshop on Culture, Health and Migration organised every year by the NIHMP. Crossings, movements, contacts, questions and discoveries, the never-ending journey of peoples and ideas in a world becoming smaller and smaller, where thinking about ourselves as individuals independent and disconnected from the others is no longer possible.
By crumbling the image of a strictly enclosed universe, science is opening the way to the idea of an ever-changing cosmos composed of interconnected elements. Even before ethics, it is science itself that shows us how everything is related to everything else, and that all living beings are mutually dependent.
This has always been the approach characterising the thirty-year experience of the NIHMP, which taught us that, as all those people compelled to leave their country do, it is necessary also for us to travel, to venture beyond known limits, where contact and dialogue are really possible. It will be easier then to understand that there are no absolute foreigners, that no land of foreigners exists. It will be possible to cooperate for a place where nobody feels foreigner, but a guest of a welcoming World for everybody.
The NIHMP, whose institutional mission is the protection of everybody’s health, and particularly of disadvantaged population groups, intends keeping eyes open and watchful on what is happening today, in order to suitably answer people needs. To increment service offer and quality, to continue experimenting new health assistance models able to take care of people in a comprehensive, multidisciplinary and transcultural way, to promote a peer-based therapeutic relationship contaminating and enriching all the involved actors: this is the passionate everyday challenge of the NIHMP.
The workshop will be an occasion to share and analyse these and other issues with National and International experts and personalities of the health, culture and politics sectors and of the civil society.
We are waiting for you!
CALL FOR POSTER
The organising secretariat of the XVII International Workshop “culture, health, migration” is glad to invite associations, organisations, university professors, operators and whoever is interested to submit a poster on Crossings: Languages and territories of a moving world.
Posters should be submitted by 30 September 2010, please include title, author/s and abstract of maximum 200 words.
The same author can participate in more than one poster if they deal with different projects.
Posters will be exhibited during the event at the workshop hall and will be presented on 15 October morning. A speaker should then be identified for each poster.
On 15 October morning, during the workshop, a prize will be awarded to the best poster, chosen among the most originals and those dealing with the most significant issues.
