Research Seminar
Migration in a Global Perspective: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Convener: Dr. Tamara Caraus, ICUB Visiting Professor
The University of Bucharest Research Institute – Social Sciences Division hosts a weekly Advanced Research Seminar on migration.
The purpose of this seminar is to examine how the scale and nature of the contemporary migration call for a re-shaping both of the political order and of the political and social science. Unlike the standard theories of migration that take rootedness and incorporation in the nation-state as the norm and the migrant practices enacted across state boundaries as the exception, this seminar series aims to go beyond the conceptual limits of the nation state and methodological nationalism, and to approach migration as a global phenomenon, disobeying the national borders and the inter-national state system.
The seminar is designed as an opportunity for interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary discussions between researchers coming from fields such as political philosophy, legal studies, political science, international relations, sociology, economics, anthropology, and others. The seminar offers to the academic staff and research students from the University of Bucharest and other academic and research institutions the possibility to interact on a weekly basis by presenting their work in progress on the topic of migration from a plurality of interdisciplinary perspectives.
The weekly seminars will be held on Tuesday from 17.00 – 19.00. The language of the Seminar Series is both Romanian and English.
Venue: Room 102, Faculty of Sociology and Social Assistance, Campus Panduri, Panduri nr. 90-92, sector 5, București (in some cases, the events will take place in Room 201 – information will be updated accordingly one week before each seminar)
If you would like to present a paper as part of Seminar Series, please send a title and an abstract in Romanian or English, together with institutional affiliation, to Tamara Caraus at tamara.caraus@icub.unibuc.ro and/or tamara_caraus@yahoo.com
Scheduled Presentations:
1 November, 2016 Madalina Manea, From Door to Rhizome in Understanding the Meanings of Borders in International Migration
8 November 2016 Dr. Ruxandra Ivan, Borders, Migration and the Changing Nature of Sovereignty
15 November 2016 Alexandru Dutu, Geopolitics of the Romanian Migration and the Future of European Demography
22 November 2016 Dragos Ciulinaru, Who Protects the Universal Rights of Undesired Migrants? The Collective Evictions and Expulsions of Roma Migrants in the European Union
29 November 2016 Alexandra Deliu, Migration and identity construction: discourses, definitions, borders.
6 December 2016 Round Table: Theorizing Migration: Global Perspective versus Methodological Nationalism
10 January 2017 Round Table: Autonomy of Migration: Assessing Migrant Agency in a Globalized World
17 January 2017 Building ‘Deaths at the Borders Database’-methodological challenges with Ignacio Urquijo
7 February 2017 Tamara Caraus, Becoming In/Visible – A Strategy of Migrant Resistance
14 February 2017 Irene Peano, Militant Research in Migration Studies
21 February 2017 Some Notes on Migration and ‘Overtime’ Labor with Cosmin Radu
28 February 2017 Corina Ilea, Mediated Migration
7 March 2017 The refugee as bare life in the camp? Agamben on refugees and the coming politics with Tamara Cărăuș
11 April 2017 Migration and Distant Love with Jasmina Al-Qaisi
20 June 2017 Round Table: Is Migration a Security Threat?
11 July 2017 Viața cotidiană a persoanelor refugiate. Tabără de refugiați, Ktima Iraklis, Paralia Katerini, Grecia
