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Events

Conferences

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

Internal Network Meeting in Bielefeld

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

Internal Network Meeting in Göttingen

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

Internal Network Meeting in Freiburg

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.

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