Events

THE 17th INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF FORCED MIGRATION (IASFM) CONFERENCE WILL BE HOSTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF BALKAN, SLAVIC, AND ORIENTAL STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA, THESSALONIKI, GREECE AND THE LABORATORY FOR THE STUDY OF CULTURES, GENDER, AND BORDERS Thessaloniki, Greece 24-27- July 2018 Never since the Second World War have refugees faced such life and death alternatives with nowhere to turn, and faced with increased restrictionisms.  The case of Greece epitomizes these new...
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Lunchtime meeting at Thessaloniki When: 13:30-14:30, Thursday 26 July, 2018 Where: The department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece. The Working Group for Archiving and Documentation of History of Forced Migration and Refugees invites everyone to join our annual meeting to be held at lunchtime on Thursday 26 July at the IASFM17 conference a the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki, Greece. The Working Group marks its third year this September....
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At the limits of migrant justice, resistance, and solidarity Session organisers: Leah Montange (University of Toronto) & Sarah M. Hughes (Durham University, UK). Please see below for a CFP for the Canadian Association of Geographers annual conference in Winnipeg 27-29 May 2019. The political acts, subjectivities, and contestations of migrating or border crossing people has become an increasingly pervasive theme within and beyond Political Geography.  Scholars have attended to how migrants without formal citizenship are able to...
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Call for Papers for session at the Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG) Conference, London Family – as both rhetoric and personal relationship – has long been a preoccupation of national and racial projects. Think of ‘motherland’ and ‘fatherland’, or the policing of inter-marriage in colonial race-building enterprises (Stoler, 2002) and in the wake of ‘ethnicized’ conflicts (Morokvasic-Müller 2004). Both ‘family’ and ‘home’ have protective, welcoming connotations but like the nation, can...
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Tourists and Migrants (un)expected encounters in the Mediterranean La Valletta, Malta Cultural heritage is commonly thought as a product of the longstanding link between people and their own territory. But, as anthropologist James Clifford shown us, in our contemporary world culture and identity are associated to "routes" as much as to "roots". We are prompted to recognize that different kinds of mobility and flows are closely connected to the global dynamics of place making. The...
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