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Internal Network Meeting in Mainz

Kick-off Workshop in Mainz, April 28 - April 29 2022

Program

Thursday

13.-14.00

  • Welcome and Organisational Matters
  • Goals and Opportunities of this Network
  • Short Round of Introduction 

14.15-16.45 Break-Out Group Discussion and Plenum Discussion

17-18 Project Presentations: Megha Amrith, Vicktoria Kumala Sakti & Franzisca Zanker

19-21 Dinner and Chats

Friday

9-10.30 Group Discussion: New Methods for Data Collection in Times of Covid-19: What works and what doesn't?

10.45-12.45 Group Discussion: Our Expectation for this Network and the coming Meetings

  • Which specific Topics to focus on
  • What Outputs to reach out for (Special issues, Co-Authoring)
  • Who to invite as Guest Speakers

13:00 Lunch and Departure

Workshop in Bielefeld, January 18.-20., 2023

Program

Wednesday Afternoon

  • 14-18h Writing Retreat

19h Joint Dinner

Thursday Morning

  • 9.00-9.15h Meet & Greet
  • 9.15.-10.45h Q & A with Biao Xiang (MPI, Halle)
  • 11.15-12.45h Maurice Stierl (Osnabrück University)

12.45- 14.15 Lunch

Thursday Afternoon

  • 14.15 -15.45h Talk by Amrita Datta (Siegen University)
  • 16.15-17.45h Presentations by Magdalena Suerbaum, Dora Sampaio & Dilshad Muhammad

18h Joint Dinner

Friday Morning

  • 9.00-9.15h Meet & Greet
  • 9.15.-10.45h Q & A with Thomas Faist (Universität Bielefeld)
  • 11.15-12.45h Exchange on Publications and Projects & Brainstorming for the Subsequent Meeting

12.45-14.00h Lunch and End of the Workshop

 

Workshop in Göttingen, November 9.-11., 2023

Program

Thursday, 9 November

Til 17:30 arrival and welcome


DISENTANGLING THE MULTIPLICITY OF CRISES (PART I)

  • 18:00 Keynote: “Migration world-making practices engaging with mutually independency through abolitionist horizons”, Martina Tazzioli (University of Bologna)

19:30 dinner

 

Friday, 10 November

09:00 coffee and conversation

  • 09:30 Round of introduction, where we’re currently at? – news from our network’s members

 

DISENTANGLING THE MULTIPLICITY OF CRISES (PART II)

  • 10:00–10:30 Invited guest talk: “Crisis as Exception or Context? Covid-19 in the Somali regions and in the diaspora”, Nauja Kleist (DIIS Copenhagen), with colleagues
  • 10:30–11:00 “The desire to control ‘crisis anxiety’- Migrants social positioning strategies in transnational spaces”, Inka Stock (University of Bielefeld)
  • 11:00–11:30 “Crisis that spans a life-time (and beyond): Parenting practices in displacement”, Magdalena Suerbaum (University of Bielefeld)
  • 11:30–12:00 Discussant note by Megha Amrith (MPI-MMG Göttingen)
  • 12:00–12:30 plenary round of reflection

12:30 lunch


DISENTANGLING THE MULTIPLICITY OF CRISES (PART III)

  • 14:00–14:30 “Trapped! Immobility and second flight in war-torn Ethiopia”, Magnus Treiber & Mulu Getachew Abebe (LMU München & Addis Ababa University)
  • 14:30–15:00 “The ‘crisis’ of migration: mobility norms in Africa”, Franzisca Zanker (ABI Freiburg)
  • 15:00–15:30 “Crisis as usual. Producing migration control policies in the long run in Niger”, Laura Lambert (ABI Freiburg)
  • 15:30–16:00 discussant note by Antje Missbach (University of Bielefeld)
  • 16:30–17:00 plenary round of reflection

19:00 dinner

 

Saturday, 11 November

  • 10:00 Round of discussion: where will we go next? Conferences, publication plans, joint applications?

12:00 departure

Workshop in Freiburg, 26.-28. June 2024

Program

Wednesday

17.00 Arrival

18.00-19.45 Keynote: Repairing infrastructures of (im)mobility - lessons from the Covid-19 crisis by Dr. Gunjan Sondhi

20.00 Dinner

Thursday

9.00-9.30 Coffee and conversation

9.30-11.00 Looking Back: Long-term Covid-19 impacts on migration/mobility in the Global South

  • Zahra Babar (Georgetown universitx Qatar): Reflecting on the Pandemic Two Years On: Mobility and Migration in Gulf
  • Anita Ghimire (Nepal Institute for Social and Environmental Research): Old policies for new aspirations: Nepali Migration policy and changing female migration in Nepal
  • Joyce Takaindisa (University of the Witwatersrand): Examining the relationship between COVID-19 impacts and the Zimbabwean Exemption Permits for migrants in South Africa: Post-Pandemic Interplay Between Xenophobia and Policy Oscillation
  • Luisa Gabriela Morales Vega (Autonomous University of Mexico State): The Tightened State Migration Control in Mexico: A COVID-19 Pandemic Remnant.

11.00-11.15 Short Break

11.15-12.45 Small-group work/ interactive walk

Input: Inka and Antje on how scholars imagined the “new normal” and the post-pandemic era.

  1. How does Covid-19 continue to influence global migration and (im)mobilities?
  2. Which prognoses, made in the early stages of the pandemic have materialised and which not? And why?
  3. How do mid to long-term consequences of the pandemic affect in our respective areas of interest and our research interests?
  4. What findings has the network contributed?

13.00 Lunch

14.30-17.30 Writing Retreat Part 1

19.30 Dinner

 

Friday

9.15-12.30 Writing Retreat Part 2

  • Feedback session
  • Moving Forward 

12.30 Lunch and Farewell 

Author's Workshop in Bielefeld, 9-10 October 2025

Pandemics and Mobilities

 

Perliminary Program 

 

Thursday, 9 October

09:00 am - 09:15 am Inaugural Session (Room: X-C3-107)

  • Welcome by the editors of the edited book 
  • Opening remarks by Prof. Dr. Oliver Flügel-Martinsen, Dean, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University 

09:15 am - 11:15 am Cluster 1: Pandemic Histories, Pandemic Mobilities 

  • Unekwu Friday Itodo  
  • John Mathew and Rutuja Rokade
  • Habib Khondker 
  • Titas Ganguly 
  • Chair: [To be decided]

11:15 am - 11:30 am Coffee Break

11:30 am - 01:15 pm Cluster 2: Shifts in Labour Migration 

  • Sourina Bej
  • Arnab Roychowdhury and Ahmed Abidur Razzaq Khan
  • Ipshita Basu, Ekata Bakshi and Arindam Banerjee
  • Faudzan Farhana, Athiqah Nur Alami, Tri Nuke Pudjiastuti, R.Aj. Rizka Fiani and Prabaningtyas, Irin Oktafiani  
  • Dipti Nagpaul
  • Mukta Naik
  • Chair: [To be decided]

01:15 pm - 02:15 pm Lunch Break 

02:15 pm - 03:55 pm Cluster 3: Gendering Mobilities in Pandemic Times 

  • Sreedeep Bhattacharya 
  • Ghurni Bhattacharya 
  • Irudaya Rajan and Arokkiaraj Heller 
  • Ali Saha 
  • Chair: [To be decided]

03:55 pm - 05:10 pm Cluster 4: Public Health Sovereignity 

  • Uday Chandra, Asma Shakeel and Huda Syed 
  • Shu Wan 
  • Nir Cohen and Tatiana Fogelman 
  • Chair: [To be decided]

07:30 pm Dinner (Venue TBD)

 

Friday, 10 October 

09:00 am -  10:50 am Cluster 5: Role of Media, Communication and Technology (Room: X-C3-107)

  • Michaela Pelican and Sophia Mayer 
  • Istikhar Ali 
  • Marshia Akbar 
  • Claudia Minchilli 
  • Chair: [To be decided]

10:50 am - 11:00 am Coffee Break 

11:00 am - 01:30 pm Cluster 6: Marginalizing the Mobile Body as the Risky Body 

  • Debangana Baruah 
  • Samanwita Paul and Rohini Mitra 
  • Luisa Piart 
  • Laavanya Kathiravelu 
  • Arjab Roy and Manjusha Kausik Duarah 
  • Tu Huynh and Mamelang Mmutlwane 
  • Chair: [To be decided]

01:30 pm - 02:30 pm Lunch Break

02:30 pm - 04:35 pm Cluster 7: Mobility catalyst, Anti-mobility and post-pandemic outcomes 

  • Kamil Matuszczyk 
  • Amanda Lubit 
  • Radhika Mathrani Chakravarty and Shruti Gupta 
  • Prerna Vats 
  • Arokkiaraj Heller and Gunja Sondhi  
  • Chair: [To be decided]

End of the workshop

 

Further Information: https://blogs.uni-bielefeld.de/blog/soziologie/entry/call-for-papers-for-quot

 

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