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Open Seminar
„Migration: sites, rhythms and scales of experience”
within the project „Leisure practices and perception of nature. Polish tourists and migrants in Iceland”
http://mobility-leisure.edu.pl/
April 22, 2015, 13.00-19.00
University of Gdańsk, Faculty of Social Sciences, ul. Bażyńskiego 4, Gdańsk
Session 1 (ROOM C211-212)
13.00-13.45 Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir, Anthropology at the University of Iceland, “Different
discourses of mobility in Iceland. Tourist and migrant workers” + discussion
13.45-14.30 Anna Mazurkiewicz, History at the University of Gdańsk, “The Cold War Exiles - from
the thrill of escape to the disenchantment with losing agency” + discussion
14.30-15.15 Magdalena Żadkowska, Sociology at the University of Gdańsk, Natasza KosakowskaBerezecka, Psychology at the University of Gdańsk, “More time for family and leisure: Polish
migrant couples' in Norway accounts of their changed routines” (part of PAR project
http://migrationnavigator.org/ ) + discussion
15.15-15.45 coffee break
Session 2 (ROOM C211-212)
15.45 – 16.30 Anna Wojtyńska, Anthropology at the University of Iceland, “Perception of nature
among Polish migrants in Iceland” + discussion
16.30-17.15 Małgorzata Zielińska, Pedagogy at the University of Gdańsk, “Polish adult migrants in
Iceland: educational contexts” + discussion
Session 3 (ROOM S208)
17.30-19.00 Helena Patzer, Anthropology at the University of Warsaw, “Money Tree”: film
presentation, film (40 min.; description on next page) + discussion
19.00-22.00 informal gathering/dinner of seminar participants and guests, place tbc (optional)
Seminar supported by a grant from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA and Norway Grants and
co-financed by Polish funds.
“Money Tree”
Dir.: Helena Patzer. Dir. of Photography: Kacper Czubak. Production: Helena Patzer
Poland 2013. 40’
The film tells the story of migration – of a women, of her sister, of her sister-in-law, of the others who will
follow - and shows how this changes the everyday life of the whole family in the Philippines. It speaks about the
nexus of care and reciprocal obligations, of love and power, of being forced into migration and dreaming about
going abroad. The story of one woman who went to America is irrevocably connected to the stories of her
father, siblings, her nieces and nephews, who all move in a net of mutual obligations, and who all dream of
“the streets paved with gold” in America, wherever that is...
Helena Patzer - PhD Candidate at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw.
She is currently finishing her PhD thesis entitled “Long-distance Care. Transnational Practices of Filipino
Immigrants in Boston”, based on multi-sited research in the US and in the Philippines. She received a
Kosciuszko Foundation scholarship at Harvard University, and a research grant from the Polish Ministry of
Science and Higher Education. She was also a Visiting Research Associate at Ateneo de Manila University. Her
main interests are migration, transnationalism, and long-distance family care; the critical anthropology of
development; and research methodology. She is also the author of an ethnographic film “Money Tree” (2013)
about everyday practices of long-distance care with the use of new media. She is the co-author of an edited
volume on methodology “Pretextual Ethnographies. Challenging the Phenomenological Level of
Anthropological Knowledge-Making” (forthcoming). She cooperates with The Helsinki Foundation for Human
Rights, The Polish Institute of Anthropology, and The Ethnographic Laboratory Association.
Seminar supported by a grant from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA and Norway Grants and
co-financed by Polish funds.