The AspirE project - Decision making of aspiring (re)migrants to and within the EU: the case of labor market-leading migrations from Asia invites to the final conference of the project, which will take place on October 24, 2025, in Auditorium A306 at Iscte - Knowledge and Innovation.

On the same day, the exhibition organized by the local project team will be inaugurated.

Free admission, but registration is required. https://forms.office.com/e/sg1D1gCbsR 

PROGRAM

09:00 Guest Reception
09:30 Welcome
Teresa Patrício, Director of CIES-Iscte
Sofia Gaspar, Principal Investigator AspirE Portugal Team

09:45 The life of empirical data beyond academia: valuing cultural events as dissemination tools
Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot, Principal Investigator AspirE, Université libre de Bruxelles

Chair: Amaya Sumpsi, Postdoctoral Fellow, AspirE Portugal Team

10:30 Guided Tour of the Exhibition
Olga Cojocaru, Amaya Sumpsi, Sofia Gaspar and Carol Wang
AspirE Portugal Team

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 Roundtable with AspirE's Principals Investigators
Mari Korpela, AspirE Filand Team
Adéla Souralová, AspirE Chequia Team
Ruth Achenbach, AspirE Germany Team

Chair: Sofia Gaspar

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:30 Migration on Display Curatorships in Paris and Madrid
“East and Southeast Asian migration on display. The curatorship of an exhibition at the French National Museum of Immigration History (Paris, France, 2023-2024)”
Simeng Wang, CNRS, France

“Can museums be agents of social transformation? Reflections from the exhibition People who migrate from… Objects that migrate from… China, National Museum of Anthropology, Madrid”
Irene Masdeu Torruella, University of Barcelona

Chair: Olga Cojocaru (Postdoctoral Fellow, AspirE Portugal Team)

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break

13:30 - 17:30 Film screening: Premiere of AspirE documentary with Dr. Amaya Sumpsi

17:30 - 18:00 Closing Session
Carmen Amado Mendes, President of CCCM, Macau Scientific and Cultural Centre
Sofia Gaspar & Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot