New Borderlands or Cosmopolitanism from Below (NeBoCo). International Conference on Linking Theories of Border, Concepts of Cosmopolitanism and Citizenship in Migration Studies

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New Borderlands or Cosmopolitanism from Below (NeBoCo). International Conference on Linking Theories of Border, Concepts of Cosmopolitanism and Citizenship in Migration Studies

Veranstalter
EMMIR Consortium (European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations); Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany (School of Linguistic and Cultural Studies, School of Education); Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany (Laboratory for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies); University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (African Centre for Migration and Society)
Veranstaltungsort
Carl von Ossietzky Universität
Ort
Oldenburg, Germany
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
06.12.2012 - 08.12.2012
Deadline
15.11.2012
Website
http://www.neboco.org
Von
Katharina Hoffmann, Carl con Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg

The conference sets out to make a significant contribution to the development of migration theory. It will focus on three interlinked concepts: border(land), citizenship, and cosmopolitanism. Currently, these concepts are highly debated in transnational and transdisciplinary academic discourses - initiating a fruitful dialogue between them might lead to paradigmatic shifts in migration studies and beyond.

Experts from different countries and academic disciplines examine the specific dimensions of the ongoing deep transformation of statehood, citizenship, sovereignty and identity formations in sending, transit, and receiving states.

Programm

Thursday, 6 December
16h
PRE-CONFERENCE EVENT
Invisible Lines / Movements of Migrations in Dialog
(Edith Russ Site for Media Art, Katharinenstraße 23)
Artists (Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa, Barbara Loreck & Hubert Mahela) and students present their work on Migration/Border Regimes
18h
OPENING AND PUBLIC EVENING LECTURE
(Kulturzentrum PFL, Peterstraße 3)
Empire, Globalisation, and the Subject
Ranabir Samaddar, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, India

Friday, 7 December to Saturday, 8 December

Papers will be presented and discussed in the following three sections:
I Border Regimes: Formations of European and African Border(land)s
Keynotes: William Walters (Carleton University, Canada): “Migration, Routes, and Power: From Borderlands to Viapolitics” & David B. Coplan (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa): “Africa's Contribution to Global Cross-Disciplinary Borderlands Theory”.
II Border Imaginaries: On the Discursive (De-)Construction of Demarcation Lines
Keynotes: Marion von Osten (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria): “Images of Transgression: On the Visual Deconstruction of Borders?” and Chris Allen (University of Birmingham, UK): “Islamophobia in Europe”.
III Transgression of Borders and Transnational Social Experiences: A New Cosmopolitanism or Translocal, Postnational Citizenship.
Keynotes: Atreyee Sen (University of Manchester, UK): “Migration, Displacement and Cosmopolitanism from Below: Some Critical Interventions” and Encarnacion Gutierrez-Rodriguez (University of Manchester, UK): “Beyond Borders?! On Conviviality between ‘Nepantla’ and ‘Creolization’”.

Friday 7 December
20.30h
Public Concert
Night of Global Music Player: Music Crossing Borders
(Aula, University of Oldenburg)
Global Music Player e.V., Oldenburg

Conference fees:
Full conference, (students/unwaged) 30 EUR, (waged) 60 EUR
Day registration, (unwaged) 15 EUR, (waged) 30 EUR

For more details and the registration form see www.neboco.org.

Kontakt

Hoffmann Katharina

Carl von Ossietzky University
Cultural Studies Department Working Group Migration - Gender – Politic

+49(0) 441 798 2530
+49 (0) 441 798 4868

http://www.neboco.org