Events

15-16 June 2017 Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Sofia, Bulgaria Alongside 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...
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Tuesday 4 July, 2016 University of York The 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. There is, however, political potential in the deployment of crisis language and the invocation of novel (in)securities. That is, the...
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6-8 July, 2017 Crete, Greece A RADICALLY DIFFERENT KIND OF CONFERENCE  We 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. Our conference is about creating new...
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26 September, 2017 University of Warwick, London Campus, London, UK. This 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. Send 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. 

30 Oct – Nov 1 2017, Chancellors Conference Centre, Manchester The 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’.   About the conference The 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...
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