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maltatoday, SUNDAY, 6 DECEMBER 2015 37 This Week This Week DON'T SETTLE FOR ANY JOB WORKING AT MITA IS NOT LIKE ANY OTHER JOB. WE ARE MALTA'S LARGEST ICT ORGANISATION, WITH A COMMITMENT TO DELIVERING EXCELLENCE THROUGH TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION. WITH A DEDICATED TEAM OF OVER 330 EMPLOYEES, MITA BELIEVES, AND INVESTS, IN ITS PEOPLE. WE CAN GIVE YOU EXPOSURE TO THE LATEST TECHNOLOGIES AND THE BEST TRAINING, ENABLING YOU TO NOT ONLY FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL, BUT EVEN EXCEED IT. IF YOU'RE AFTER THE RIGHT JOB AND NOT JUST ABOUT GETTING ANY JOB, WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU. TECHNICAL SERVICES OFFICER ETC PERMIT: 117/2015 Vacancies have arisen for the post of Technical Services Ocers within the Service Call Centre as well as within the Control Centre. The Technical Services Ocer in the Control Centre will monitor and support all Government ICT services and infrastructure to ensure excellent service provision on a 24x7x52 basis, whilst in the Service Call Centre s/he will provide high quality and ecient remote technical support to MITA customers by making full use of availability management tools while diagnosing incidents and providing client feedback. The successful candidate will be expected to hold either of the following set of qualications and experience: i) An ICT related degree (MQF level 6 or higher), in which case no previous experience is necessary; OR ii) an ICT related diploma (MQF level 5) together with one year related working experience; OR iii) an ICT related diploma (MQF level 4) together with two years related working experience; OR iv) three years related experience. Candidates must be uent in Maltese and English. Candidates are required to submit the MQF equivalence certicate for any Diploma or Degree that is not listed in the NCFHE database. For full vacancy details, visit: www.mita.gov.mt/careers Submit a detailed CV, together with a covering letter, scanned copies of certicates and the names of two referees and their email addresses by not later than Wednesday, 16th December 2015 to: careers.mita@gov.mt, The Human Resources Manager, Malta Information Technology Agency, Gattard House, National Road, Blata l-Bajda HMR 9010 MITA is an equal opportunities employer Collecting communal memories TEODOR RELJIC speaks to Dr Georgina Portelli, Sandro Debono and Prof. Milena Dobreva, organisers of the exhibition 'Departure, Memory, Nostalgia, Identity and Return', being held at the Parliament in Valletta until December 8. Forming part of the events surrounding CHOGM and taking as its cue an earlier Malta-based conference on migration and identity, the exhibition challenges the viewer to reconsider any monolithic view of national history What were the particular dis- cussions and topics from the con- ference that led to what eventually got distilled for the exhibition? The conference discussed aspects such as forced migration in the form of exile and slavery, displacement and the contested legacies of war. It looked at cultural heritage docu- mentation, music and audio-letters as mediators of community as well as identity formation and inhabited memory. One of the themes related to archives libraries and museums those institutions having to take care of preserving the memories (documentary heritage) of com- munities and had a contribution by UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme on human rights and freedom of the press. The exhibition presents a narra- tive of four themes: departure, with its physical uprooting, risks, fears and hopes; memory and nostal- gia, the emotive threads that help weave identity, often with attempts at recreating the fabric of the com- munity of origin in new contexts. It also looks at the nurtured hope of return to the country or commu- nity of origin. How were the artists – and of course the artworks in particu- lar – selected for the exhibition? What were the criteria you em- ployed? Artworks from the National Col- lection were selected in response to the chosen narratives emerging from the conference and, in some instances, the discussions also led to juxtapositions and comparisons which enriched the narrative fur- ther. Indeed, artworks and artists bridge with documents, photogra- phy and objects creating one weave. There is also no reverential distinc- tion between artworks and other objects. They connect through the chosen narrative. Four large hang- ing images serve as the backdrop and frame for each showcase re- spectively. Some of the works pertain to Di- asporic communities, eg. the Ralli Icon that was presented to Grand Master Wignacourt by a Greek Rhodiot, the triptych by Maltese Australian Maree Azzopardi or Vincent Apap's bust of Giovanni Niccolò Papaffy, a Greek migrant and philanthropist Others, concep- tually deal with departure such as Isabelle Borg's Journey to the South and Darren Zammit Lupi's image of exhausted migrants whilst oth- ers such as Richard England's Mal- tese Landscape engage identity and memory. The exhibited works have now gained new meanings thanks to the connections which they share with other objects on display. How do you think the works at the exhibition enrich the discus- sions which took place at the con- ference? Exhibitions are research projects in their own right. Their effective- ness depends on the strength and innovative qualities of the chosen narrative. In this case the exhibi- tion was intended from the start as an extension of the conference discussions and the curatorial team sought to depict a coherent series of visuals, objects and documents. In the narrative on departure, forced migration is represented by documents related to the exile of Manwel Dimech, the actual police ledger containing the details of the Maltese internees exiled to Uganda during WWII together with an early 16th century document con- cerning the sale of a female Tuni- sian slave and her baby. Identity presents an intriguing parallel mediated by place and lan- guage between Palestinian-Maltese author Walid Nabhan and Franco- Maltese author Laurent Ropa, both of whom embrace the language of their host country to articulate their creativity. Nostalgia presents a snapshot of the recording history of Maltese traditional għana that owes its inception to the needs of the Maltese Diasporas as well as other popular songs about emigra- tion. Return, amongst others, features a collage of Gozitan house names that reference the host countries of returned migrants. Documents were sourced from the National Archives, National Library, the University Archives, the Notarial Archives, the Victoria State Library and the Malta Museum of Migra- tion as well as private family collec- tions. The exhibition is supported by the Ministry of Justice, Culture and Lo- cal Government; Ministry for Edu- cation and Employment, Heritage Malta and the University of Malta