IMER BERGEN
NEWSLETTER
NR. 2/2019 - 5th of June 2019
CONTENT
- IMER News
- Publications
- Upcoming Events
IMER NEWS
We are pleased to announce that IMER junior scholar network has received funding from GSU. This will help the network expand and organize more events for PhD candidates and early career researchers working on migration in Bergen and elsewhere.
Publications
Bygnes, S. (2019). A Collective Sigh of Relief: Local Reactions to the Establishment of New Asylum Centres in Norway. Acta Sociologica https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0001699319833143
UPCOMING EVENTS
The Borders of Outreach: Do we need to reframe the Public Role of Academics?
Time: 18th of June 2019, 17:00-18:00
Place: Auditorium 1, Faculty of Law
Scholars are increasingly called upon to engage with and have an impact on the wider world. Yet reaching out is not always that simple, as Ruben Andersson has come to note in his research on migration, borders, and security. Indeed, these political fields are illustrative of a deeper problem of outreach faced by many academics today: which messages and audiences should we prioritise, and how may our findings and analyses translate into a crowded and fractured public debate? In this talk, Ruben Andersson reflects on his own experience of crossing the borders between academia, policy, the media and advocacy, arguing for the need to take back control over the ways in which we engage. Instead of finding ourselves captured by more powerful interests, answering pre-set policy questions on a given problem, he puts focus on how we may help switch the parameters of debate - including by asking new questions altogether.
Ruben Andersson is an anthropologist and associate professor at the Department of International Development, University of Oxford. He has written extensively on the anthropology of borders, migration, and security, and is the author of Illegality (2014) and No Go World (2019).
The session will be moderated by associate professor Synnøve Bendixsen.
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