Migration is one of the key topics addressed by the Centre for Development and Cooperation SUPSI, founded in 2008. The Centre focuses on applied research, education, and services in the fields of development, international cooperation, and humanitarian aid, tackling major global challenges through an interdisciplinary approach. In particular, it carries out projects on migration processes at both local and international levels, exploring their opportunities and challenges, and collaborating with academic institutions, NGOs, and public and private partners to promote more inclusive and aware societies.

The theme of individual and collective memory raises many questions: what is the value of remembrance, especially when it relates to trauma, injustice, and war? How can we give voice to the victims and the “nameless” of migration in the Mediterranean? Why does the past continue to challenge us, and how can memory contribute to building a public consciousness capable of countering indifference?

The Centre for Development and Cooperation SUPSI, in collaboration with Mendrisiotto Regione Aperta and Club 74, is organizing an evening dedicated to the theme of memory, inspired by the book Il coraggio di ricordare. Quando la memoria cura (Montaonda, 2025) by psychologist and psychoanalyst Susanna Baldi, and moderated by Claudia Howald, researcher at the Centre for Cooperation and Development.

The event – in Italian – will take place on Friday, April 17, 2026 at 18:00 at the SUPSI Campus of the Department of Environment Constructions and Design in Mendrisio (via Flora Ruchat-Roncati 15), at the Materioteca (first floor).

Programme

18:00–18:10 
Welcome
Claudia Howald
researcher, Centre for Development and Cooperation SUPSI

18:10–18:30 
Book presentation
Susanna Baldi
psychologist and psychoanalyst

18:30–19:10  
Round table discussion
Susanna Baldi
Sonia Castro Mallamaci
associate professor at SUPSI in History Education
Marco Nardone
researcher in Sociology and Social History, University of Geneva
Claudia Howald

19:10–19:30 
Open discussion with the audience