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Livia Holden, anthropologist of law at LUMS (Pakistan) and Associate Research Fellow at the French Institute of Pondicherry (India), will hold a seminar titled "Divorce on woman initiative: India, Pakistan and transnational itineraries" at Siena University. The seminar will be on 19th of April at 10:00, in the Aula Refugio at S. Chiara School.  
Livia Holden carries out extensive and longitudinal fieldwork in South Asia, in Southern Italy and in North America with a specific stress on collaborative approaches. Her book on Hindu Divorce has been widely acknowledged as a fundamental work in the subject, and since then she has widened her field of interest not only toward divorce practices in Pakistan, but also toward the present time debate in Europe and Usa about different legal systems and the shapes that that kind of practices is taking in Western Countries.

19 Novembre 2010 - Stefano Jacoviello and Tommaso Sbriccoli have hed a presentation of the Scientific Research guidelines within the Book Fair in Siena. The presentation,  titled "Keywords of the cultural encounter", has taken its moves from the work developed by the research group of the project around the concept of creolisation. Focusing of such terms as multiculturalism, metissage, tradition, assimilation and integration, racism, syncretism, globalisation and tolerance, the participants have discussed the ways through which these concepts have been used, their historical trajectories and the consequences of their political utilisation, with the aim to develop a public debate on the phenomena linked to migration and cultural encounter in our contemporary globalised societies and offer intellectual tools for better understanding and contextualising the words we usually use in order to speak of the encounter with the Other.