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SUMMARY:"MeditHerity" MOBILITY AND HERITAGE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN - 1st International Summer School
DESCRIPTION:Tourists and Migrants (un)expected encounters in the Mediterranean\nLa Valletta\, Malta \nCultural 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. \nThe Mediterranean is one of the most significant areas where we can observe this phenomenon. Here the constant movement of tourists and migrants across both sides of the sea in the last decades has been producing several (un)expected encounters. On the beaches of Lesvos and Kos as in the ethnic neighborhoods of Marseille and Barcelona\, in the “Sea Memory Museum” of Zarzis as at “Porto M” of Lampedusa\, the clear cut border between tourism and migration is contested and vanished. \nIn order to follow the paths of this “heritage on the move” we can combine different fields of studies and manage a variety of approaches\, ranging from engagement in theoretical debate to application of our skills in innovative projects. \nThe main aim of the Summer School is to improve the knowledge of the participants in the anthropology of mobility and heritage and their capacity to develop fruitfull cooperations with private and public agencies. \nThe Summer School will be divided in sets of lessons and activities including: analysis of theoretical and methodological tools; presentation of case studies with an ethnographic approach; visits to specific places and institutions engaged in migration and tourism in Malta. \nTopics Covered\n\nTourism-led migration and Migration-led tourism\nRoots tourism/Diaspora tourism\nEthnic neighbourhoods as places of leisure and consumption\nEveryday multiculturalism\nResponsible and ethic tourism\nApplied/Public anthropology\nBorder studies\n\nTwo half days will be devoted to take part in a workshop organized by the staff of the “RIMA Project” about the relationship between forced migration\, self-narrative and theatre  www.rimaproject.org  and to design a pilot “intercultural walking tour” related to the “MIGRANTOUR Project”  www.migrantour.org  \nApplications are currently open. \nDetails here: http://www.summerschoolbicocca.com/19-meditherity.php  \nFor Further information\, contact: francesco.vietti@unimib.it  \n 
URL:https://iasfm.org/adfm/event/meditherity-mobility-and-heritage-in-the-mediterranean-1st-international-summer-school/
LOCATION:Malta
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SUMMARY:Reimagining Family\, Race and Nation: belongings\, contradictions\, and possibilities
DESCRIPTION:Call for Papers for session at the Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG) Conference\, London\n \n\nFamily – 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 also be places of fear and exploitation (Barrett and McIntosh\, 1982; Ahmed et al 2003). Yet both family structures and delineations of nation and race are constantly unfinished and re-invented. \n\nWe invite papers exploring: (1) public tropes of national and racial belonging imagined as naturalised family relations and (2) how projects of race\, nation\, and borders play out in intimate family settings\, as a means of re-imagining the closures and possibilities of family\, race\, and nation without neglecting questions of power and history. \n\nHow does ‘family’ create opportunities for belonging and solidarity\, and how does it close them down? How far are nation- and race-building projects dependent on the patriarchal nuclear family of Western modernity\, and what other resources can be used to upturn their certainties? Do queer family practices open spaces for disrupting exclusions of race and nation\, or do they reproduce the closures of hetero-normative family conventions? Could a feminist ethics of care reimagine the family-as-nation? How are positions on ‘race’ and belonging disrupted or reinforced by changing family relationships? Are there resources for hope and solidarity in the trope or experience of family that can transcend race and border politics\, or is this a dead end? \n\nPapers may consider\, but are not limited to\, the following subjects: \n\nDivisions of families across re-drawn borders\nInter-generational conversations and memories\nIntimate family responses to Brexit\nDiasporic connections and re-connections\nMixed heritage identities and contestations\nChosen and non-normative family practices\n\n\n\nPlease send your expression of interest including title\, abstract of up to 250 words\, and your name and institutional affiliation to the session Convenors: Dr Špela Drnovšek Zorko\, University of Warwick (s.drnovsek-zorko@warwick.ac.uk) and Dr Hannah Jones\, University of Warwick (h.jones.1@warwick.ac.uk) by 1st February 2019 at the latest.
URL:https://iasfm.org/adfm/event/reimagining-family-race-and-nation-belongings-contradictions-and-possibilities/
LOCATION:London\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:"Geographies of Resistance” - the Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Conference 2019
DESCRIPTION:At the limits of migrant justice\, resistance\, and solidarity \nSession organisers: Leah Montange (University of Toronto) & Sarah M. Hughes (Durham University\, UK). \nPlease see below for a CFP for the Canadian Association of Geographers annual conference in Winnipeg 27-29 May 2019.  \nThe 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 demand rights (see McNevin 2011; Sigvardsdotter 2013; Mountz et al. 2013); make their political voices heard through\, for example\, protests and the occupation of buildings (see Walters 2010; Nyers 2008); and enact themselves as citizens (see Isin and Nielsen 2008; Anderson et al. 2011). There is however\, often a tension present in this literature concerning whether migrating people are enacting a form of citizenship and/or a mode of political subjectivity that is beyond or beside citizenship (see Squire 2015; Erensu 2016). Further\, literatures from ethnic and migration studies offer yet another frame for interpreting the ways that border crossing people interact with power structures that seek to shape\, their geographic mobilities (see Menjívar 2006; Chauvin and Garcés-Mascreñas 2014). This literature especially attends to how various forms of legality\, illegality\, and racialization (also varied) impact upon the way people are read\, and the hierarchization of life chances. One key focus here has been migrant peoples’ navigation of legal (and illegal) violence and the negotiation of racial regimes (see Menjívar and Abrego 2012; Ybarra 2018). \nThese frameworks for reading the politics of migrant and border crossing life give us an angle and language for understanding the politics of migration and border crossing activity. We ask in this session what do such terms as ‘acts’\, ‘justice’\, ‘resistance’ or ‘solidarity’ do in our research? What might be the limits of these categories? And what might be the political implications of deploying them? Our session therefore seeks to critically engage with these debates around the politics of migration\, through empirically based geographical research.  We are particularly interested in work that: \n-topically ranges anywhere from collective struggles of border crossing or migrating people to everyday practices of navigating state violence \n-addresses strategies around and navigations of border enforcement\, and the relationship of these strategies with what comes to be termed ‘resistance’ \n-addresses contexts within and beyond the Global North \n-considers border crossers’ or migrants’ oppressions and obstacles alongside those of marginalized or racialized citizens \n– problematizes an emphasis on migrants’ resistance and agency\, or that challenges the romanticization of experiences that are precarious \n– considers the weight of retaliation and risk in the actions and resistance of border crossers or migrants \n– considers solidarity or allyship (including the limits of solidarity or allyship) on the part of citizens \nPlease send abstracts of no more than 250 words to Leah Montange (leah.montange@mail.utoronto.ca) and Sarah M. Hughes (s.m.hughes@durham.ac.uk) by the 9thth February 2019.
URL:https://iasfm.org/adfm/event/geographies-of-resistance-the-canadian-association-of-geographers-annual-conference-2019/
LOCATION:The University of Winnipeg
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SUMMARY:AGM 2018: Working Group for Archiving and Documentation of History of Forced Migration and Refugees
DESCRIPTION:Lunchtime meeting at Thessaloniki\nWhen: 13:30-14:30\, Thursday 26 July\, 2018 \nWhere: The department of Balkan\, Slavic and Oriental Studies\, University of Macedonia\, Thessaloniki\, Greece. \nThe 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. We will be updating you about the group activities and we welcome new members to join the Working Group. \nAll welcome. \nIf you have any question\, please feel free to contact Paul Dudman (p.v.dudman@uel.ac.uk) or Rumana Hashem (r.hashem@uel.ac.uk). \nThanks and we look forward to see many of you in our lunchtime meeting!
URL:https://iasfm.org/adfm/event/agm-2018-working-group-archiving-documentation-history-forced-migration-refugees/
LOCATION:University of Macedonia\, Thessaloniki\, Greece
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180724
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180728
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SUMMARY:IASFM Annual Conference 2018: Whither Refugees? Restrictionism\, Crises and Precarity Writ Large
DESCRIPTION:THE 17th INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF FORCED MIGRATION (IASFM) CONFERENCE WILL BE HOSTED BY \nTHE DEPARTMENT OF BALKAN\, SLAVIC\, AND ORIENTAL STUDIES \nUNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA\, THESSALONIKI\, GREECE \nAND THE LABORATORY FOR THE STUDY OF CULTURES\, GENDER\, AND BORDERS \nThessaloniki\, Greece \n24-27- July 2018  \nNever 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 global phenomena\, which have been analogous to what the poorest parts of the global south have been experiencing for decades and of what may lie ahead. Holding the 17th IASFM conference in Thessaloniki makes it possible to reflect on the variety of predicaments of refugees in the 21st century; the convergence of longer and fragmented routes and multiple modes of travel; the impact of economies of austerities on refugee lives; and the emergence of new responses to these crises. \nThe aim of this conference is to address the changes in global refugee movements\, responses and debates and to place them in historical perspectives.  Given the current world situation\, it is necessary to bring refugees squarely back into academic\, policy\, non-governmental and citizen debates and praxis. \nTHEMES \nThe Program Committee invites academics\, policy makers and practitioners to submit proposals for Organized Panels\, Roundtables\, Media and Artistic presentations\, and Individual Papers for sessions\, which the Committee will organize according to themes and sub-themes. Preference will be given to organized panels and roundtables over individual presentations.  Below we list the overarching themes around which paper panels and roundtables should be organized: \n\n Crises\, Precarity and Refugeeness\n\nThis dimension will address the increasing intensity and complexity of the refugee phenomenon. As new wars becoming more widespread\, journeys more dangerous\, the increasing roles of traffickers and smugglers as information brokers\, and even after reaching safety\, refugees are confronted with extreme conditions of precarity\, and their prospects of survival become further undermined\, the imperative to understand the consequences of these new realities is a task that the IASFM is well-placed to address. In the 21st century\, gender does not mean women\, and panels are also asked to focus on the reconceptualization of gender dynamics and relations at times of crises. The category of unaccompanied minors has been replaced by that of separated children\, who travel on their own continuing to escape protection instruments and disappearing on route. Panels are asked to consider these categories of minors and their well-being. \n\n Changing durable solutions\n\nThe current proliferation of inter-state agreements\, regional mechanisms and the reconfiguration of the role of the UN to manage movements across borders and protect refugees calls for an understanding of the emerging dynamics of institutional frameworks\, renegotiations of modes of protection and a redefinition of what constitutes ‘durable solutions’. \n\n  Civil society\, new humanitarianism and citizens’ mobilization\n\nClassic forms of humanitarianism are becoming obsolete.  New forms of citizen mobilization and engagement are emerging; roles are being reversed; the militarization and privatisation of aid are widespread; and we see the consolidation of refugee and migrants’ led activism and citizens’ solidarity with asylum seekers and refugees. Such issues need to be addressed through dialogues among social actors working in different sectors. \n\n Politics of representation and changing identities\n\nThe proliferation and widespread dissemination of images of refugees and migrants\, of crises and new emergencies in media and especially social media\, contribute to a restructuring of the political landscape\, including the reconceptualization of the threatening refugee and Islamophobia\, from refugee as resources to refugee entrepreneurs within a global neo-liberalism context\, and powerless vulnerable victims in need of aid. Panels will address the politics of representation in historical\, cultural\, aesthetic perspectives. \n\n Reflective praxis\n\nIn a world of the ‘big data’\, this theme will revisit the ways in which information is being used by practitioners for promoting accurate information to refugees concerning ‘Who is a refugee’ \, how refugees themselves manage the increasing complex bureaucratic structures and information services around them and how to make a claims  when they have no lawyer or assistance. It will examine the role of trainings\, legal aid\, and education provisions for refugees. We will also address the comparison between refugees and development induced forced displacement. To what extend are the experiences of these forced migrants and other ‘internally displaced’ populations similar or different from each other? \nRULES OF PARTICIPATION  \nConference participants may only make one paper presentation. In addition to a paper presentation\, they may also play a second role: organise/chair a panel and/or roundtable or be a discussant on a panel or roundtable. \nPAPER PANELS\, FILMS\, ART PROJECTS\, COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH – PRACTITIONER PROJECTS   \nThe Program Committee will give preference to panel proposals and other artistic interventions over individual papers. Panels organized on the basis of any of the proposed themes will ensure cohesive discussions throughout the conference. The Committee particularly encourages imaginative panels that incorporate comparative perspectives\, cross-disciplinary boundaries\, and engage debates between scholars and practitioners and when possible forced migrants. We will limit panels to a maximum of two consecutive ninety-minute sessions\, each of which can hold a maximum of four papers or other equivalent. Presentations should last between 15-20 minutes allowing for discussion and questions from the audience. \nROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS \nThe Program Committee encourages organization of roundtable discussions involving forced migration scholars\, policy-makers\, practitioners\, and if possible refugees and forced migrants. Roundtables might also be a good venue for doctoral students and young migration scholars to exchange ideas about research ethics\, methodological issues\, peer review\, etc. Roundtables organized by doctoral students might also involve editors or experts from whom the emerging scholars would like to learn. Roundtable discussions are limited to 90 minutes. There is no possibility of having a double roundtable session. The number of participants in a roundtable should not exceed six persons to allow for a robust discussion and questions from the audience. \nAs noted above\, preference will be given to panel and roundtable proposals\, but will consider individual papers provided that they correspond with one of the themes proposed above. \nSUBMISSION OF PANEL\, ROUNDTABLE\, AND PAPER PROPOSALS  \nAll panel\, roundtable\, paper proposals\, and presentations in other formats (e.g.\, film screenings\, art works\, etc.) must be submitted online by DEADLINE 30th of September 2017 through the following link: http://tinyurl.com/n5nm7yu. Late submissions will not be accepted. If you experience any technical difficulties in submitting your abstract\, please contact Michele Millard at mmillard@yorku.ca. \nLANGUAGE \nThe official language of the IASFM is primarily English.  However\, provision for ad hoc translation will also be provided upon request (mainly for refugees). \nRequests for further information may be addressed to Tanja Neskovic\, email: tneskov@uom.gr
URL:https://iasfm.org/adfm/event/iasfm-annual-conference-2018-wither-refugees-restrictionism-crises-precarity-writ-large/
LOCATION:University of Macedonia\, Thessaloniki\, Greece
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SUMMARY:World on the Move: Migration\, Societies and Change
DESCRIPTION:30 Oct – Nov 1 2017\, Chancellors Conference Centre\, Manchester \nThe University of Manchester’s Migration Lab invites proposals for papers\, workshops\, exhibitions and performances which respond to the theme of ‘migration in the context of uncertainty and change’. \n  About the conference  \nThe conference will provide an arena for discussion\, debate\, and the development of future research projects. Plenary sessions from world-leading migration researchers\, panels\, and workshops will create spaces for the development of sustainable networks and relationships across the academic\, policy\, not-for-profit and media sectors. The first day will be a half day policy and politics event where distinguished speakers from policy\, activist\, NGO and media backgrounds will debate the question ‘How is Brexit Britain responding to a world on the move?’. \n \nConfirmed keynotes\nProf Aderanti Adepoju (University of Lagos)\, Prof Alice Bloch (The University of Manchester)\, Prof Joy Damousi (University of Melbourne)\, Prof Rob Ford (The University of Manchester)\, Prof Peter Gatrell (The University of Manchester)\, Prof Justin Gest (George Mason University)\, Prof Nina Glick-Schiller (The University of Manchester)\, Dr Laura Hammond (School of Oriental and African Studies)\, Prof Yaron Matras (The University of Manchester)\, Gulwali Passarlay (Author of The Lightless Sky)\, Prof Miriam Ticktin (The New School\, New York). \nConference themes  \nWe invite proposals for papers\, workshops\, exhibitions and performances which respond to and confront the relationship between migration and the various social\, political\, environmental and economic upheavals currently in process worldwide. We hope to include discussions around issues such as forced displacement\, asylum\, labour migration\, trafficking\, diaspora\, integration\, citizenship and their reciprocal relationships with conflict\, economic inequalities\, hardship\, climate change\, political change and social transformation. The following themes are intended as a guide:\n·       Home\, Borders\, Identities\n·       Media\, Culture\, New Populisms\n·       History\, Agency\, Institutions\n·       Languages\, Narratives\, Expressions\n·       Methodologies\, Research and Practice \nKey dates  \nAbstract Deadline: 10 May 2017 \nNotice of Acceptance: 30 May 2017 \nRegistration: 15 July 2017 \nConference: 30 Oct – 1 Nov 2017 \n Conference committee members \nConference Lead: Dr Tanja Müller. Committee members: Prof Alice Bloch\, Prof Bertrand Taithe\, Prof Uma Kothari\, Prof Yaron Matras\, Dr Tamara West\, Dr Cathy Wilcock \nConference fees  \nThe conference fee will be £130 for the full two and a half days (not including optional conference dinners). For PhD researchers\, the fee is discounted to £75. \n  Contact  \nCathy.wilcock@manchester.ac.uk \nWebsite: http://www.migrationlab.manchester.ac.uk
URL:https://iasfm.org/adfm/event/world-move-migration-societies-change/
LOCATION:Chancellors Conference Centre\, Chancellors Way\, Moseley Road\, Manchester\, M14 6ZT\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170926
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170927
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SUMMARY:Migrants’ and Diaspora Responses to the Rise of Right-Wing Populism – A One-day Workshop
DESCRIPTION:26 September\, 2017  \nUniversity of Warwick\, London Campus\, London\, UK. \nThis workshop will be held on 26 September 2017 at the University of Warwick’s London site. The workshop is dedicated to research on how migrant and diaspora communities respond to populist\, anti-immigrant and ethno-nationalist movements. \nSend paper abstracts of 300 words max to Dr. Ben Margulies (b.margulies@warwick.ac.uk) and Dr. Maria Koinova (m.koinova@warwick.ac.uk) by 25 May 2017 or to ask for the full call for papers. 
URL:https://iasfm.org/adfm/event/migrants-diaspora-responses-rise-right-wing-populism-one-day-workshop/
LOCATION:University of Warwick\, London Campus\, London\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170706
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170709
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SUMMARY:An Interdisciplinary Conference: Building Bridges in a Complex World
DESCRIPTION:6-8 July\, 2017  \nCrete\, Greece \nA RADICALLY DIFFERENT KIND OF CONFERENCE  \nWe are a network of academics and practitioners motivated by our work experiences inside and outside of Europe. With this being the first conference\, we are hoping to turn this into an annual gathering to build bridges on three different levels: between theorists and practitioners\, between people from different disciplines and between people from different parts of the world. \nOur conference is about creating new bonds in an intellectually challenging but convivial environment irrespective of status and titles. It offers a unique format of intimate discussion groups where everyone attending has the opportunity to be part of the conversations.  \nAt the beginning of the 21st century\, the world is facing challenges that are interconnected\, including wars\, terrorism\, (forced) migrations\, global inequalities and asymmetries\, climate change etc. \nThe fundamental constraints to an equitable standard of living for everyone are neither a shortage of resources nor a lack of technological innovations. The main impediments are a lack of political will to reform a global institutional order that produces foreseeable yet avoidable power asymmetries. Whereas on our side\, it is potentially experiences of disempowerment and/or the lack of solidarity\, which influence our abilities to imagine a just world and to dare enough to play the role of change-makers. \nThis is an interdisciplinary\, inquiry-driven gathering with the main focus on bringing people together to share ideas in a convivial environment. We hope to explore what kind of alternative questions\, concepts\, methods and practices are necessary to address these complex challenges of our time. \nIt is in this spirit that we invite contributions from practitioners and researchers to share your insights\, practices and experiences relating to programmes\, policies and studies that address issues of social (in)justice and (in)equality locally and internationally. \nFind out more about the conference: www.buildingbridges.uk.com 
URL:https://iasfm.org/adfm/event/interdisciplinary-conference-building-bridges-complex-world/
LOCATION:Samaria Hotel Chania\, 69 Kidonias Street\, 1866 Square\, Chania\, Crete\, 73135\, Greece
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170704
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170705
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SUMMARY:‘Europe\, Migration and the New Politics of (In)security’: Governing (In)securities
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday 4 July\, 2016 \nUniversity of York\nThe migration crisis has seen multiple apparent failures in the European project – of solidarity\, response and co-operation. In this sense\, the new politics of (in)security applies as much to the troubled internal dynamics of the Union as it does to the management of insecure and vulnerable migrants. \nThere is\, however\, political potential in the deployment of crisis language and the invocation of novel (in)securities. That is\, the dynamic of disintegration and collapse that has accompanied the European response (from the re-assertion of sovereign borders to the rejection of EU initiatives by individual member states) has been productive of new authorities\, interventions and relationships in the field of migration and security. \nKey here is the devolution of bordering practices to non-EU partners (across Africa\, Asia and beyond)\, the inexorable rise of private security authorities and expertise\, and the wholesale turn to technologies to secure borders and manage migration. \nMotivated by a concern to understand what the claim to novelty allows governing bodies to do in the name of security\, this workshop will explore (but is not limited to) the following questions: \n• What (new) forms of expertise and authority have arisen in the wake of the migration crisis? \n• How is the migration/security field spreading away from European borders\, to\nencompass new partners and actors? \n• How are the divisions between internal and external security further dissolved (and reinstated) within the ‘crisis’? \nWe invite paper proposals (abstracts of 200 words) addressing these and related questions in different areas from a theoretical\, empirical\, and/or normative perspective. \nThe workshop is particularly interested in papers that examine the social\, political and ethical dynamics of knowledge production within the crisis. What are the challenges of producing critical knowledge from within situated relationships between researchers\, security and migration authorities? \nThis conference is an initiative by the White Rose Collaboration Fund Network at the University of York\, UK. \nWebsite: www.newinsecurities.org
URL:https://iasfm.org/adfm/event/europe-migration-new-politics-insecurity-governing-insecurities/
LOCATION:University of York\, York\, YO10 5DD\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170615
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170617
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SUMMARY:International Conference on Cultural Heritage In Migration
DESCRIPTION:15-16 June 2017\nInstitute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum\, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences\nSofia\, Bulgaria \nAlongside the issues related to migration policies\, immigrants’ sociocultural adaptation and the functioning of immigrant networks in the receiving society\, the intensive migration processes in the past three decades from Eastern Europe to West European countries and the United States pose in new perspective the topic of cultural heritage abroad\, of its construction and maintenance in foreign cultural environments. Carried by the immigrants outside their homelands\, this heritage is reconstructed in a specific way in the conditions of immigration and is a major factor in the formation and consolidation of immigrant communities. Depending on the time and circumstances of migration and on the immigrants generational affiliation\, the introduction and acquisition of ‘native’ culture can begin already in the country of origin (through the family\, school\, media\, etc.)\, but can also take place abroad – in family settings\, in the communication with co-nationals inside the immigrants’ networks\, through the contacts maintained in the home country or in relation to the work of institutions\, such as schools\, churches\, cultural associations abroad\, etc. In the process of acquiring ‘native’ culture and establishing sites and institutions for this acculturation\, immigrant communities pass through different forms and levels of consolidation\, interacting with the cultural heritage brought in the new environment\, as well as influencing upon it depending on the specific needs and sociocultural dynamics of the community. Immigrants not only use cultural heritage in their integration and consolidation (group or personal) strategies\, but they also preserve in a particular way a range of important elements of the national culture – language\, customs\, beliefs\, celebrations\, folklore texts\, etc. The latter play the role of core points in the individual and group identity of immigrants in the foreign environment\, they are shared and pointed out in different contexts and are an object of maintenance and promotion through various community activities\, media and social networks. \nThe current conference aims to outline some of the specific aspects of cultural heritage in migration\, interpreting it from the perspective of its significance for maintaining immigrants’ cultural identity in a foreign setting and its role in the processes of consolidation and institutionalization of immigrant communities. Dwelling mainly on examples related to the experience of Bulgarian communities abroad\, the conference is open also for papers related to the role of cultural heritage among immigrant communities from other countries of Central and Eastern Europe. With this conference\, we would like to invite scholars from different scholarly disciplines interested in themes including (but not limited to): \n\nCultural heritage from the viewpoint of immigrant communities and their consolidation\, and the role of heritage in the consolidation of immigrant communities (as well as integration and identification among other immigrant communities in the host environment);\nForms of ‘importing\,’ construing\, ‘fighting for\,’ valorizing\, preserving\, maintaining and use of cultural heritage among and by immigrant communities;\nInstitutions and informal associations of immigrants for construing\, safeguarding and use of cultural heritage in the receiving society\, as well as in the home country;\nCultural heritage as a social capital from the viewpoint of institutions\, the networks and the individual social strategies (including traditional professions\, business initiatives related to heritage\, etc.);\nTrends in construing new European forms of heritage based on migrations and EU policies\, multiculturalism as an official policy and the ‘undesirable heritage’ as a strategy of distinguishing in a sociocultural perspective;\nThe establishment of institutions (churches\, church communities\, cultural and educational associations\, schools\, museums\, etc.) and the integration of immigrants to already existing institutions (e.g. cultural institutes\, embassies\, churches\, etc.) – in historical and present-day perspectives;\nThe interactions between institution-community-heritage; the role of different institutions of immigrant communities (schools\, churches\, associations\, etc.);\nThe social (real and virtual) networks as a factor for the consolidation of the immigrant communities and in the cultural heritage construction and preservation;\nThe family as the main and natural environment for transmission of cultural heritage in the process of informal education in culture\, customs\, language\, religion\, name system\, family narratives\, everyday objects\, imagery\, calendar\, etc.;\nThe formal and informal consolidation as a nostalgic gesture and cultural need\, as an integration strategy and social activity.\n\n Working language: English \nThere is no fee for participation in the conference\, but the organizers do not have the possibility to cover the participants’ expenses for travel and accommodation. \nThe conference is organized within the project of ‘Cultural Heritage in Migration. Models of Consolidation and Institutionalization of the Bulgarian Communities Abroad’ funded by the Bulgarian National Science Fund. \nDownload Call for papers (pdf). \nhttp://www.migrantheritage.com/international-conference-cultural-heritage-in-migration/ \nhttps://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/161459/international-conference-cultural-heritage-migration
URL:https://iasfm.org/adfm/event/international-conference-cultural-heritage-migration/
LOCATION:Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum\, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences\, Moskovska Str. 6A\, Sofia\, 1000\, Bulgaria
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SUMMARY:Kurdish Migration Conference 2017: Globalisation\, Diaspora and Transnational Belonging
DESCRIPTION:June 15-16\, 2017\, Middlesex University\, London\, UK \nCall for Papers is now closed. Registrations are open [click here to register] \n\nConference Aims and Objectives: \nFollowing the success of the first international Kurdish migration conference (KMC) held in 2016 at Middlesex University (London) and the strong interest and participation by the international scholarly community\, the 2nd KMC will be held at Middlesex University on 15 and 16 June 2017. \nDisplacement and forced migration have a distinct meaning and significance in the history of the Middle East. In recent years\, the political and economic instability of the area\, together with the repressive and coercive policies of most regional states and their international allies\, the marginalisation of minority groups and the rise of fundamentalist movements\, continue causing permanent crises\, fuelling displacements and forced migrations. Millions of people have lost their homes and livelihood and were forced to seek a safe haven either in the neighbouring countries or taking a long and dangerous journey to Europe. The images of drowned three-year-old Kurdish boy Alan Kurdi in the Aegean Sea\, mass killing of Yazidis and Syrian nationals\, displacements of religious and ethnic minorities made global headlines without any effect. \nSimilarly to its neighbouring countries\, today the Kurdistan Region in Iraq hosts some 1.8 million refugees from Syria and internally displaced persons. A considerable number of refugees and displaced people are also hosted by the Kurdish Cantons in Rojava (Kurdish region in Syria) and by municipalities in the Kurdish Region of Turkey. \nFar away from the homeland\, the over 2 million Kurds living in Europe\, the USA\, Canada\, Former Soviet republics and other countries are following with great concern the events in the Middle East. Since the 1980s\, the Kurdish diaspora in the Western has played an important role\, recreating new Kurdish diasporic spaces in settlement countries while simultaneously reconnecting to their home country and making the question of Kurdistan a transnational political issue through their political engagement\, media and cultural production and activism. However\, what is the relationship of the Kurdish diaspora with the contemporary challenges and conflicts in and around Kurdistan? What kind of exchanges and interactions are taking place? How do Kurds relate with new refugees and displaced people living in Kurdistan\, the Middle East and Europe? Moreover\, what are the experiences of the Kurdish diaspora in countries where hostility and  discrimination towards immigrants are alarmingly on the rise? \nThe Kurdish Migration Conference 2017 aims to bring together researchers from a range of disciplines working on Kurdish migration to discuss these and other relevant questions and to exchange their views and findings about all aspects of migration from\, through and into Kurdistan\, as well as about the experiences of diasporic communities and second generations abroad. \n\nKeynote speakers: \n\nProfessor Joshua Castellino (Middlesex University\, London)\nDr Osten Wahlbeck (University of Helsinki\, Finland)\n\nThe full programme will be published here in the coming days. \nHow to register \nRegistration fee:  £ 50\nDiscount fee for students (undergraduate\, postgraduate or doctoral): £ 25 \nTo register for the conference visit Middlesex University online shop – click here. \nN.B. All speakers will be required to register and pay the registration fee ahead of the conference. You will be sent information on how to register upon acceptance of your paper. \nContacts:\nFor more information\, please contact the conference organisers:\n– Dr Janroj Yilmaz Keles: J.Keles@mdx.ac.uk\n– ‎Dr Alessio D’Angelo: A.Dangelo@mdx.a.uk \nThis conference is organised by the Business School and the Social Policy Research Centre at Middlesex University. \nWebsite: https://mdxmigration.wordpress.com/kmc2017/
URL:https://iasfm.org/adfm/event/kurdish-migration-conference-2017-globalisation-diaspora-transnational-belonging/
LOCATION:Middlesex University\, London\, NW4 4BT\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Belonging in a post-Brexit-vote Britain: researching race\, ethnicity and migration in a changing landscape
DESCRIPTION:A BSA Early Career Forum Regional Event\nUniversity of Sheffield\, Sheffield\, UK\n  \nA one-day conference hosted by the Department of Sociological Studies (in collaboration with the British Sociological Association and the University’s Migration Research Network) will be held at The University of Sheffield on the 9 May 2017. \nThis event seeks to bring together early career and established academics\, to share knowledge and experiences in the unique research environment resulting from the UK electorate’s decision to leave the EU. According to the UN\, campaigns advocating a leave vote presented a ‘divisive\, anti-immigrant and xenophobic rhetoric’ (Stone\, 2016) and in the three weeks following the vote there was a 20% increase in reported race related hate crime in the UK (BBC\, 2016). As Brexit campaigners stated that leaving the EU would make ‘Britain Great Again’\, anti-migrant and xenophobic narratives conflated\, implying that migration threatens Britishness. Sociologically\, in this context\, the boundary between historically distinct fields (migration research and race and ethnicity research) becomes blurred. This event provides a timely opportunity to examine the interface between these fields and consider directions for future research. \nPlenary speakers: \n\nProfessor Sarah Neal\, The University of Sheffield\nDr Jon Fox\, University of Bristol\nProfessor Louise Ryan\, The University of Sheffield\n\nRegistration for the event is now open and can be completed via the following link: https://portal.britsoc.co.uk/public/event/eventBooking.aspx?id=EVT10629 \nHow to find us: \nUniversity of Sheffield\nDepartment of Sociological Studies\nElmfield\, Northumberland Road\nSheffield S10 2TU \nFind us on the map: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/?q=53.382368\,-1.496075&ll=53.382368\,-1.496075&z=18 \nFor further information visit conference website: https://www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa-events/belonging-in-a-post-brexit-vote-britain-researching-race-ethnicity-and-migration-in-a-changing-landscape
URL:https://iasfm.org/adfm/event/belonging-post-brexit-vote-britain-researching-race-ethnicity-migration-changing-landscape/
LOCATION:University of Sheffield\, Department of Sociological Studies\, Elmfield\, Northumberland Road\, Sheffield\, S10 2TU\, United Kingdom
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