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Veranstaltungen

Konferenzen

Internes Netzwerktreffen Mainz

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

Programm

Donnerstag

13.-14.00

  • Begrüßung und organisatorische Fragen
  • Ziele und Möglichkeiten des Netzwerks
  • Kurze Vorstellungsrunde

14.15-16.45 Diskussion in Breakout-Gruppen und Plenumsdiskussion

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

19-21 Abendessen und Plaudereien

Freitag

9-10.30 Gruppendiskussion: Neue Methoden der Datenerhebung in Zeiten von Covid-19: Was funktioniert und was nicht?

10.45-12.45 Gruppendiskussion: Unsere Erwartungen an das Netzwerk und die kommenden Treffen

  • Auf welche spezifischen Themen sollten wir uns konzentrieren?
  • Welche Ergebnisse sollten wir anstreben (Sonderausgaben, Mitautorenschaft)?
  • Wen sollten wir als Gastredner*innen einladen?

13:00 Mittagessen und Abreise

Workshop in Bielefeld, 18.-20. Januar 2023

Programm

Mittwoch Nachmittag

  • 14-18 Uhr Schreibwerkstatt

19 Uhr gemeinsames Abendessen

Donnerstag Vormittag

9.00-9.15 Begrüßung

  • 9.15.-10.45 Fragen und Antworten mit Biao Xiang (MPI, Halle),
  • 11.15-12.45 Fragen und Antworten Maurice Stierl (Universität Osnabrück)

12.45- 14.15 Mittagspause

Donnerstag Nachmittag

  • 14.15 -15.45 Vortrag Amrita Datta (Universität Siegen)
  • 16.15-17.45 Präsentationen von Magdalena Suerbaum, Dora Sampaio & Dilshad Muhammad

18 Uhr gemeinsames Abendessen

Freitag Vormittag

  • 9.00-9.15 Begrüßung
  • 9.15.-10.45 Fragen und Antworten mit Thomas Faist (Universität Bielefeld)
  • 11.15-12.45 Austausch zu Publikationen und Projekten und die weitere Planung der Netzwerktreffen

12.45- 14.00 Mittagessen und Ende des Workshops

 

Workshop in Göttingen, 9.-11. November 2023

Programm

Donnerstag, 9 November

Bis 17.30 Ankunft und Begrüßung

DISENTANGLING THE MULTIPLICITY OF CRISES (PART I)

  • 18.00-19.30 Keynote: “Migration world-making practices engaging with mutually independency through abolitionist horizons”, Martina Tazzioli (University of Bologna)

Ab 19.30 Abendessen


Freitag, 10 November

09.00 Begrüßung

  • 09.30 Einführungsgespräch: Where we’re currently at? – news from our network’s members

DISENTANGLING THE MULTIPLICITY OF CRISES (PART II)

  • 10:00–10:30 Gastvortrag: “Crisis as Exception or Context? Covid-19 in the Somali regions and in the diaspora”, Nauja Kleist (DIIS Copenhagen)
  • 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 Diskussionsbeitrag von Megha Amrith (MPI-MMG Göttingen)
  • 12.00–12.30 Reflexionsrunde im Plenum

12.30 Mittagspause

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 Diskussionsbeitrag von Antje Missbach (University of Bielefeld)
  • 16.30–17.00 Reflexionsrunde im Plenum

19.00 Abendessen


Samstag, 11 November

  • 10.00 Ausblick: 'Where will we go next? Conferences, publication plans, joint applications?'

12.00 Ende des Workshops und Abreise

 

Einen Flyer inklusive Programm und Abstracts zu den Veranstaltungen finden Sie hier.

 

Workshop in Freiburg 26.-28. Juni 2024

Programm

Programm

Mittwoch

17.00 Ankunft

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

20.00 Abendessen und Plaudereien

Donnerstag

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 Kurze Pause

11.15-12.45 Arbeit in Kleingruppen/ interaktiver Spaziergang

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 Schreib Retreat Teil 1

19.30 Abendessen und Plaudereien

 

Freitag

9.15-12.30 Schreib Retreat Teil 2

  • Feedback Runde
  • Moving Forward 

12.30 Lunch und Abreise 

 

 

 

Autorenworkshop in Bielefeld, 9 - 10 Oktober in Bielefeld

Pandemics and Mobilities

Program 

Autoren Workshop

Pandemics and Mobilities (Brill, 2026)

Datum: 9-10 Oktober, 2025

Uhrzeit: 09:00 - 17:00 CET (Tag 1); 09:00 - 16:00 CET (Tag 2)

Ort: X-C3-107, Universität Bielefeld, Deutschland (Hybrid)

 

 

Donnerstag, 9 Oktober

09:00 - 09:15  Eröffnungsveranstaltung  (Raum: X-C3-107)

  • Begrüßung durch die Herausgeber des Sammelbandes Pandemics and Mobilities: Amrita Datta, Bielefeld University, Germany, Jonathan Ngeh, University of Cologne, Germany and Arani Basu, Krea University, India  
  • Einblicke in die Fakultät für Soziologie und das DFG-Netzwerk "Migration and Im/Mobility in the Global South during a Pandemic": Antje Missbach, Sprecherin des Netzwerks, Universität Bielefeld, Deutschland

09:30 - 11:00  Cluster 1: Pandemic Histories, Pandemic Mobilities 

  • Unekwu Friday Itodo, Kogi State University, Nigeria: “The 1918 Influenza Pandemic: Northern Nigeria”  
  • Habib Khondker, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, UAE: “Two Horsemen of Apocalyses and Mobility”
  • Chair: Laavanya Kathiravelu, University of Oslo, Norway

11:00  - 11:15  Kaffeepause

11:00  - 13:00  Cluster 2: Shifts in Labour Migration 

  • Sourina Bej, University of Bonn, Germany: “Pandemic, contractors & paradoxes in labour migration pathways from Indian Sunderbans”
  • Arnab Roychowdhury, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia and Ahmed Abidur Razzaq Khan, ULAB Dhaka, Bangladesh: “COVID-19, Migrant Workers & their Families: A Case Study of Local Civil Society Intervention in Bangladesh”  
  • Faudzan Farhana, Athiqah Nur Alami, Tri Nuke Pudjiastuti, R.Aj. Rizka Fiani and Prabaningtyas, Irin Oktafiani, National Innovation Agency, Indonesia: “Indonesia, Indonesian Migrant Workers RepatrianPolicies during COVID 19”  
  • Chair: Antje Missbach, Universität Bielefeld, Deutschland

12:45 - 13:45  Mittagspause 

14:00 - 17:00  Cluster 3: Marginalizing the Mobile Body as the Risky Body

  • Debangana Baruah, Tata institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India: “Pandemic Vulnerability of Sylheti-Muslim Migrants in Mumbai”   
  • Samanwita Paul, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi, India and Rohini Mitra, University of Bonn, Germany: “Rohingya refugees during COVID 19 in India”  
  • Laavanya Kathiravelu, University of Oslo, Norway: “Tamil Low Wage Migrants and the individualisation of resilience”   
  • Luisa Piart, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Salle, Germany: ”The Crew Change Crisis and Seafarers’ Disrupted Travels Home during the Pandemic”
  • Arjab Roy and Manjusha Kausik Duarah, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India: “Interface between Migrant Labourers and the Indian State during COVID-19” 
  • Tu Huynh and Mamelang MmutlwaneTu Huynh and Mamelang Mmutlwane, Jinan University, China: ““We Became the Virus”: Race, Risk, and the Margins of Mobility in Pandemic Guangzhou” 
  • Chair: Irudaya Rajan, The International Institute of Migration and Development (IMAAD), Kerala, India

19:30 Formelles Abendessen 

 

 

Freitag, 10 Oktober 

09:15 -  11:15  Cluster 4: Role of Media, Communication and Technology (Raum X-C3-107)

  • Michaela Pelican and Sophia Mayer, University of Cologne, Germany: “African migrants’ engagement with competing narratives about the Covid-19 pandemic” 
  • Istikhar Ali, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany: “Impact of Islamophobia on the Indian Muslims during the pandemic” 
  • Marshia Akbar, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada: “Media Portrayal of International Students in Canada’s Post Pandemic Housing Crisis Debate” 
  • Claudia Minchilli, University of Groningen, The Netherlands: “Migrant and refugee women navigating the lockdown. Social class, digital practices and the pandemic in Italy” 
  • Chair: Habib Khondker, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, UAE

11:15 - 11:45  Kaffeepause 

11:45 - 12:45  Cluster 5: Gendering Mobilities in Pandemic Times 

  • Sreedeep Bhattacharya, Shiv Nadar University, National Capital region, India: “Self in Home with Covid-Commodities in Covid-Conditions”
  • Ghurni Bhattacharya, Bielefeld University, Germany: “Return Migration in Indian Sunderbans during COVID 19”
  • Chair: Wayne Palmer, Universität Bielefeld, Deutschland 

12:45 - 13:45  Mittagspause

13:45 - 15:45  Cluster 6: Mobility catalyst, Anti-mobility and post-pandemic outcomes 

  • Radhika Mathrani Chakraborty, The University of Manchester, The United Kingdom and Shruti Gupta, Independent Scholar: “Mobility aspirations, uncertainties, and belonging in post-pandemic UAE and Hong Kong”   
  • Arokkiaraj Heller, Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development, India and Gunjan Sondhi, Open University, The UK: “International medical education: experiences of Indian students in China”     
  • Amanda Lubit, Dublin City University, Ireland: “Reconfiguring the Mobilities of Refugee Women through the COVID-19 Pandemic”
  • Shu Wan, University at Buffalo, The USA: “Chinese Iowans' Community Resilience to the Covid-19 Pandemic”
  • Chair: Michaela Pelican, Universität zu Köln, Deutschland

 

15:45 - 16:00 Danksagung

Ende des Workshops 

 

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