LOGISTICS
Place:Comisiones Obreras, Calle Lope de Vega, 40, Madrid, Spain
Cost: All 3 days: 30 euros; Saturday and Sunday: 20 euros; Sunday only: 10 euros. Payment may be made in cash at the door of the conference (pre-registration is not required) or you can make a bank transfer in advance. Instructions on the website.
PROGRAM
September 8
19:15 - Welcome Saludo de Bienvenida
19:30 - Inaugural Address: "Immigrants and Refugees: An international perspective" by Helena Maleno, writer and expert on Migration and Human Trafficking
September 9
10:00-11:30 - Communications, moderated by Comunidad Fray Pacífico
- "Remembering Alberto Iniesta" by Julio Pinillos
- "Invisibles" by Carlos Pereda
- "Red de solidaridad Popular" by Ismael González
Break
12:00-13:30 - Roundtable: "Experiences of solidarity with refugees and migrants" (I)
- Mensajeros de la Paz. Father Ángel García, President
- Cities Welcoming Refugees. Rita Maestre, City Councilwoman of Madrid
- Proyecto Esperanza-Adoratrices: Human Trafficking. Marta González.
16:30-17:00 - Open Communications
17:00-18:30 Roundtable: "Experiences of solidarity with refugees and migrants" (II)
- Experience in Melilla with unaccompanied minors. Violeta Assiego
- Comisión española de Ayuda al Refugiado (CEAR). Estrella Galán, General Secretary
- Bomberos de Sevilla. ONG Proem-Aid. Manuel Blanco
- Red Cross. José Zamora, coordinator of Proyecto de Refugiados de la Comunidad de Madrid
Break
19:00-20:30 - "Human rights, gender and immigration" by Itziar Ruiz-Giménez, Professor of International Relations, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
September 10
10:00-11:30 - "Migrants and refugees: A political and economic perspective" by Nazanin Armanian, political scientist, Professor of International Relations at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED).
Break
12:00-13:30 - "The monotheistic religions and the Mediterranean - from intercultural and interfaith sea to common grave for migrants and refugees" by Juan José Tamayo, Chair of Theology and Religious Studies, Universidad Carlos III in Madrid
16:30-17:00 - Open Communications
17:00-18:30 - "Migrations, exodus and liberation: A theological and Biblical perspective" by Elsa Tamez, theologian and Biblical scholar, currently residing in Colombia
Break
19:00-20:30 - "Forgotten and opressed peoples"
- Video on Tarajal - Helena Maleno
- The Kurds - Nazanin Armanian
- The Palestinians - Marwan El Burini, Palestinian Diplomatic Mission, Spain
- The Sahrawis - Abdulá Arabi, delegate of the Polisario Front to Madrid.
September 11
10:00-11:30 - "Migrants and refugees: Hospitality and solidarity from Christianity" by Esteban Velázquez, Jesuit, promoter of the "Cambio personal, Justicia global" initiative, formerly in charge of migrant ministry for the Archdiocese of Tangiers in the Nador area.
12:00 - Eucharist and solidarity collection. MOCEOP
