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Back to back events on Migrants and Deportation, Tuesday, April 12
Aeroplanes and Deportation @ 6pm The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School presents a lecture by Wiliam Walters entitled “Aeroplanes and Deportation.” There can be no expulsion without the trains, planes, buses and ships that states use to transport deportees across borders and territories. There can be no deportation without an assortment of guards, pilots,
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CFP: International Conference “Global Migration: Rethinking Skills, Knowledge and Culture”, 26-27 November 2016, IIC, New Delhi
Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism (GRFDT) is going to organise an international conference on the theme,”Global Migration: Rethinking Skills, Knowledge and Culture” during 26-27 November 2016 at India International Centre Annexe, New Delhi, India. We invite original research papers on the theme. The conference will bring together a diverse range of scholars/stakeholders from
Politics Book Talk – Riva Kastoryano on “The Bodies of the Jihad: State, Territories, Identities”, April 26th, @ 6pm, Wolff Conference Room, 1103, 6 East 16 Street, 11th Floor
Riva Kastoryano, Visiting Professor of Political Science, speaks about her new book Que faire des corps des djihadistes? (‘What to do with the body of the jihadist?’) The book analyzes the response of the U.S., Spanish and British governments following the suicide attacks in New York (2001), Madrid (2004) and London (2005). More specifically, what do countries do with the
Politics Panel – Refugee Movements and the Crisis of Europe: Theoretical Interventions, Monday April 18th, @6pm, Room 1009, 6 East 16 Street, 10th Floor
In reaction to recent migrant and refugee movements, Europe is marked by a discourse of crisis. If this discourse has demonstrated anything it is that not only the institutions of the EU but the very idea of Europe itself is in crisis. Europe’s failure to adequately respond to these movements seems to reveal a latently catastrophic rationality
Constellations Conference: “Post Colonialism, Critical Theory, and Democracy”, April 15-16, 2016 at the New School and at Columbia University in New York
The conference will consider the relation between various forms of critical theory and post colonialism, including how Marxism assessed colonialism and how neo-Marxists analyzed post-colonialism and the issue of critical theory and philosophies of history. We will also discuss and debate the developments and alternatives within post- colonial societies and polities with an eye to
Asylum or Fortress? The Immigration Crisis and the Illusion of European Solidarity, a conversation with Peter Zilahy, Tuesday, April 12th, from 7-9pm, Wolff Conference Room, 6 E 16th st., Rm 1103
TCDS is happy to present Asylum or Fortress? The Immigration Crisis and the Illusion of European Solidarity, a conversation with esteemed Hungarian writer and performer Peter Zilahy on the European migration crisis and its implications in European society. Please join us Tuesday, April 12th, from 7.30-9pm at The New School, Wolff Conference Room, 6 E 16th st., Rm 1103. We
Call for Applications- MiReKoc International Summer School -VI- Forced Migration: Old Phenomenon, New Challenges ,11-21 July, İstanbul
Migration Research Center at Koç University International Summer School Call for Applications 2016 are now open! Forced Migration: Old Phenomenon, New Challenges 11-21.07.2016 The Call for Applications is now open. Submissions are due by midnight GMT on 29.04.2016. Download the complete Call for Applications information in PDF format for easy reference! This
Kilian Kleinschmidt: “Refugees: from Liability to Opportunity”, Friday April 15th, @5pm, Wolff Conference Room 1103D, 6 East 16 Street, 11th Floor
Join global networker and humanitarian expert Kilian Kleinschmidt for a discussion on how technology, innovation, and inclusion can reframe the discourse on refugees, current approaches to humanitarian relief, and refugee and migration management. Following a 25 year UN career working in humanitarian relief in conflict areas around the world, Mr. Kleinschmidt founded the Innovation and Planning Agency (IPA) to foster the use of