The Nordic Migration Researchers Conferences have established themselves as a major contact point not only between Nordic researchers in the field of international migration and ethnic relations, but also between these and international scholarship generally. To the reasons for their success belongs the steadily increasing participation from researchers from non-Nordic countries, interested in our work and wishing to collaborate. It is therefore that we proudly invite participation in the 14 Nordic Migration Researchers Conference in Bergen Norway, hosted by IMER/UiB (the International Migration and Ethnic Relations Research Unit at the University of Bergen). More..
Seminar/Ph.D. course.
IMER/UiB-konferanse om relasjonen mellom insikter fra forskning og hva disse kan bety for ’brukere’. Utgangspunktet er resultatet fra IMER/UiB’s prosjekt om mangfoldssamfunnet, og hvordan disse relaterer til de problem som beslutningstakere og administratorer håndterer. Prosjektet om mangfoldssamfunnet ble finansiert av Norges Forskningsråd, og ble en sentral del av hele IMER/UIB’s virksomhet.
Denne konferansen søker å belyse hvilke verdier resultatene fra mangfoldsprosjektet kan ha for ulike brukerkategorier. Dette vil belyses og diskuteres på mange nivåer, fra de mer generelle perspektiv på relasjonen mellom forskning og samfunnsproblemer til diskusjoner av hvordan forskningsresultat kan belyse ulike måter å forstå spesifikke politiske eller sosiale problem. Et viktig aspekt blir å vise hvilke konsekvenser dette kan få for hvordan ’brukere’ kan relatere til den virkeligheten de håndterer.
Mangfoldsprosjektet bestod av mange ulike deler, og ga rom for å sysle med innvandring og kjønn, religion, transnasjonalisme, nye former for samfunnsborgerskap, dannelsen av nye sosiale rom delvis utenfor de nasjonalstatlige rammene. Alt for å forsøke å forstå hvilke forandringer som pågår i det norske og europeiske nasjonalstatssamfunnet.
Gjennom sin satsing på å belyse og integrere forskningsresultaters betydning på ulike nivåer, fra det allmenne til det spesifikke, søker denne konferansen å være en møteplass for forskere med ulike spesialiteter og brukere i mange ulike deler av det norske samfunnet.
Konferansen er lagt opp til å skape rom for en aktiv dialog.
In June 2012 the University of Bergen will organise a PhD conference on BSRS-related themes. The title of the conference is Transnational migration and global development.
IMER Bergen 15 year anniversary conference and PhD course.
International migration and attendant processes of globalization, both as social phenomena and in efforts at theorization, have become especially critical for the development of social theory and analysis, notably by challenging some of the fundamental questions of the social sciences. If one wishes, as Georg Simmel did, to answer the question “How is society possible?”, one cannot take for granted that the relevant object is defined within the parameters of the nationstate, nor by those of ´ethnic groups´ or ´cultures´.
In a recent evaluation report on Norwegian sociology research, it is stated that ´[t]he key question to be explored by sociology today is not, perhaps, how society is possible, but rather how to study social processes and changes at local, national and global levels (Sociological research in Norway: An evaluation, p. 17). Across the social science disciplines, it now seems impossible to imagine place, society and culture without the mobilities of people, goods and information – thus recasting questions exploring e.g. social stratification, scale, space, media and politics.
In its 15 years of existence, IMER Bergen has directed its collaborative efforts towards examining, but also reframing the fundamental questions of the social sciences, as variously defined within particular disciplines. To celebrate this 15th anniversary, we want to put to the forth the contributions that IMER research in Bergen, but also in the wider international scholarly community, has made to the study of society in general, processes of social change and new social formations in particular.
A combination of international and local scholars will in the course of a two day seminar, discuss how IMER researchers deal with issues such as migration, globalization and transnational movements – how they examine ‘culture’, ´politics´, ´space´, ´gender´, ´media´, ´government´ and ´law´ – through the prism of International Migration and Ethnic Relations.
A commitment to provide a strong and creative scholarly environment for students and research recruits has been one of IMER Bergen´s main vocations. In this spirit, the 15th anniversary comprises a PhD course for candidates within the humanities and social sciences. In addition to the main conference, the course component of the conference will be constituted by workshop sessions with essay presentations. The candidates are expected to send an essay abstract of maximum 1 page, including a few words about the PhD project, previous to the course. Participating PhD students that after submitting a post-conference paper get their work accepted, will be awarded 10 ETCS credits.
The obligatory curriculum of 5-700 pages is a collection of central texts which deal with core questions of the Social Sciences related to the field of migration and globalization, and will emphasize the work of the invited lecturers. The essays are expected to reflect knowledge and comprehension of the course curriculum. READING LIST
The conference and course participants will also be invited to attend the anniversary performance lecture ´Crossing Borders´ with the performance artist Tanja Ostojic, organized in co-operation with the Art Gallery Stiftelsen 3,14.
The conference and PhD course is organized by IMER Bergen and the Department of Social Anthropology, UiB and in collaboration with Uni Rokkansenteret, the Department of Comparative Politics, the Department of Geography, the Department of Sociology, and SKOK (Center for Women´s and Gender Studies) at the University of Bergen.
Lecturers
Yngve G Lithman (University of Bergen) Bruce Kapferer (University of Bergen) David Ley (University of British Columbia): Masters of Space, or Prisoners of Space? Locating the Neoliberal Migrant Laura Agustín (Independent scholar) André Iteanu (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (C.N.R.S.), Paris): The Free Noble and the Poor Beggar Nina Glick Schiller (University of Manchester) Susi Meret (University of Aalborg) Mette Andersson (University of Bergen): ”Reflexive Transnationalization” among Socially Engaged Minority Youth Hakan Sicakkan (University of Bergen): The Politics of Diversity, the European Publics, and the European Public Sphere Randi Gressgård (University of Bergen): Equality Equals Hierarchy – the Holistic Foundation of Liberal Ideology and Integration Policy Elisabeth Eide (Oslo University College and University of Bergen): Media discourses, migration and post-22.7-debates; a critical inquiry Christine M Jacobsen (Uni Research and University of Bergen): The (not so) New Islamic Presence in Western Europe: Secular Governance and Religious Freedom in a Globalized Era
REGISTRATION to Hanna Skartveit by 20 October 2011. Abstract deadline: 1 November 2011. Essay deadline: 10 January 2012.
See webpage for more information
The University of Bergen, through its Department of Sociology and IMER/UiB, is organizing a joint conference and PhD course around the theme of First Generation Nationals September 27-30, 2010. This event, focussed on “First Generation Nationals,” will attempt to elucidate several issues of major importance with respect to understanding the diversity of our societies, and many of these are also of significant political importance. A fuller presentation of the conference theme is presented here.
The conference will draw together researchers and scholars from across the Nordic countries and beyond. For PhD students within the humanities and social sciences, the course component of the conference will be constituted by workshop sessions dedicated to different themes. Participating PhD students that after submitting a post-conference paper get their work accepted, will be awarded 9 credits.
The conference programme with confirmed speakers, schedule and conference sessions is found here.
Convenors for the conference and the PhD workshops are:
Mette Andersson, Dept. of Sociology, University of Bergen (contact person regarding the academic programme)
Yngve Lithman, Dept. of Sociology, University of Bergen
For queries of a more practical and administrative nature, please contact the administrative co-ordinator of IMER at imer@uib.no .
IMER Bergen together with the Dept. of Sociology is organizing the PhD Course.
PROVIR Kick-off Conference
IMER Bergen, in collaboration with the Faculty of Law, UoB and Nordic Migration Research (NMR), is organizing a 2 days kick-off conference for the research project “Provision of Welfare to ‘Irregular Migrants’” (PROVIR).
PROVIR will investigate the Norwegian welfare system’s assessment of irregular migrants’ rights and their actual social and health situation from a combined legal and social science approach, examining the complex relationship between law, institutional practice, and migrants’ lived experience.
The conference fee is Nok 400,- and includes lunch and coffee/tea both days.
The conference has a limited number of spaces. Please register as soon as possible to Hanna Skartveit
PROGRAM:
Thursday 12 May
09:30: Welcome and introduction by Christine M. Jacobsen (IMER Bergen, Uni Rokkan Centre).
10:00-12:00: Conceptualizing Irregular Migration • BRIDGET ANDERSON (COMPAS): “A Chrysalis for Every Species of Criminal”: Illegal immigration, Benefit Scrounging and Criminality • TRINE LUND THOMSEN (Aalborg University): Reconceptualizing Irregular Migration – Between Legal Status and Social Practices Moderator: Mette Andersson (University of Bergen)
12:00-13:15: Lunch
13:15-15:30: Rights Discourse and Vulnerability • KIRSTEN KETSCHER (University of Copenhagen): Irregular Immigrants – a Challenge to Traditional Legal Concepts Embedded in the Nordic Welfare States • ODIN LYSAKER (University of Oslo): Vulnerable yet Inviolable: Recognition of the Bodily Vulnerability of ‘Irregular Migrants’ • MARIT SKIVENES (Bergen University College): “There’s a Lot of Barriers”: How Child Protection Case Workers in the United States Deal with Service Barriers for Undocumented Immigrant Families Moderator: Karl Harald Søvig (University of Bergen)
15:30-17:30 : PROVIR partner meeting
19:30: Conference dinner
Friday 13 May
10:00-12:00: Legal Regimes and Welfare to Irregular Migrants • HENRIETTE ROSCAM ABBING (Emeritus Professor of Health Law): Legal Regimes and Health Care for Irregular Migrants in the Netherlands • KARL-HARALD SØVIG (University of Bergen): Regulation of Welfare to Irregular Migrants: A Multi-Level Approach
Moderator: Henriette Sinding Aasen (University of Bergen)
12:00-13.00: Lunch
13:00-15:00: External and Internal Borders of the Scandinavian Welfare State • VIBEKE ERICHSEN (University of Bergen): The Noncitizen: on Political Exclusion • SHAHRAM KHOSRAVI (Stockholm University): ‘Undan-tagna’ People: Undocumentedness in Sweden
Moderator: Synnøve Bendixsen (IMER Bergen, Uni Rokkan Centre)
Venue: Faculty of Law (Dragefjellet, Magnus Lagabøtes plass 1), Auditorium 4, Bergen. Date: 12-13 May 2011
IMER Bergen 15 year anniversary conference and phd course
En overraskende forskningsferd Yngve Lithman har opplevd både trams, trassel og larmerier av alle slag som leder for IMER gjennom 12 år. Men mest av alt har det vært en intellektuelt overraskende reise. I dag fyller migrasjonssatsingen 15 år. (Intervju med Yngve G. Lithaman i anledning IMER Bergens 15 års jubileum)
De nye jødene Elisabeth Eide tror ikke på at historien gjentar seg selv, men ser likevel mange likhetstrekk mellom 1940-tallet og i dag. Forskjellen er at muslimene er de nye jødene. (Intervju med Elisabeth Eide i anledning IMER Bergens jubileumskonferanse)
Misplaced women On Tuesday November 8 from 13:40 I performed my “Misplaced Women?” at arrivals & departures terminal of Bergen international airport. In approximately 30 minutes time I took out the entire contents of my two suitcases, out of my handbag as well as out of my cosmetics and make-up bags. (Read more and see the photos from the performances in Bergen previous to Tanja Ostojic’s performance lecture at Gallery 3,14)
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International migration and attendant processes of globalization, both as social phenomena and in efforts at theorization, have become especially critical for the development of social theory and analysis, notably by challenging some of the fundamental questions of the social sciences. If one wishes, as Georg Simmel did, to answer the question “How is society possible?”, one cannot take for granted that the relevant object is defined within the parameters of the nationstate, nor by those of ´ethnic groups´ or ´cultures´.
In a recent evaluation report on Norwegian sociology research, it is stated that ´[t]he key question to be explored by sociology today is not, perhaps, how society is possible, but rather how to study social processes and changes at local, national and global levels (Sociological research in Norway: An evaluation, p. 17). Across the social science disciplines, it now seems impossible to imagine place, society and culture without the mobilities of people, goods and information – thus recasting questions exploring e.g. social stratification, scale, space, media and politics.
In its 15 years of existence, IMER Bergen has directed its collaborative efforts towards examining, but also reframing the fundamental questions of the social sciences, as variously defined within particular disciplines. To celebrate this 15th anniversary, we want to put to the forth the contributions that IMER research in Bergen, but also in the wider international scholarly community, has made to the study of society in general, processes of social change and new social formations in particular.
A combination of international and local scholars will in the course of a two day seminar, discuss how IMER researchers deal with issues such as migration, globalization and transnational movements – how they examine ‘culture’, ´politics´, ´space´, ´gender´, ´media´, ´government´ and ´law´ – through the prism of International Migration and Ethnic Relations.
A commitment to provide a strong and creative scholarly environment for students and research recruits has been one of IMER Bergen´s main vocations. In this spirit, the 15th anniversary comprises a PhD course for candidates within the humanities and social sciences. In addition to the main conference, the course component of the conference will be constituted by workshop sessions with essay presentations.
Programme
Wednesday 9 November Anniversary conference. OPEN LECTURE:
Venue: ‘Egget’, Parkveien 1: 10.15-10.30: Official opening with Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Knut Helland, and Director of the Uni Rokkan Centre, Jan Erik Askildsen. 10.30-12.00: • DAVID LEY (University of British Columbia): “Masters of Space, or Prisoners of Space? Locating the Neoliberal Migrant” • YNGVE G. LITHMAN (University of Bergen): ”De-Etatizing Social Science?: “Verstehen” and “Erklärung” in a (somewhat) Flatter Earth”
Chair: Edvard Hviding (Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen)
12.15-13.15: Lunch.
Venue: Auditorium, Bergen Resource Centre, Jekteviksbakken 31: 13.15-14.45: • HAKAN G. SICAKKAN (University of Bergen): “The Politics of Diversity, the European Publics, and the European Public Sphere”
• METTE ANDERSSON (University of Bergen): “‘Reflexive Transnationalization’ among Politically Engaged Minority Youth” [Read interview with Mette Andersson in På Høyden 7 November]
Chair: Susanne Bygnes (Department of Sociology, University of Bergen)
14.45-15.00: Coffee break.
15.00-16.30:
• RANDI GRESSGÅRD (University of Bergen): “Equality Equals Hierarchy – the Holistic Foundation of Liberal Ideology and Integration Policy” • BRUCE KAPFERER (University of Bergen): ”The Tamil Crisis: State, War and Peace in Sri Lanka and Shifts in Global Power”
Chair: Kathinka Frøystad (Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen)
Thursday 10 November Anniversary Conference. Venue: Auditorium, Bergen Resource Centre, Jekteviksbakken 31:
10.15-11.45:
• CHRISTINE M. JACOBSEN (Uni Research and University of Bergen): “The (not so) New Islamic Presence in Western Europe: Secular Governance and Religious Freedom in a Globalized Era” • ANDRÉ ITEANU (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (C.N.R.S.), Paris): “The Free Noble and the Poor Beggar. What does the Veil Controversy Reveal about French Ideology”
Chair: Synnøve Bendixsen (IMER Bergen and Uni Rokkan Centre)
12.00-13.00: Lunch.
13.00-14.30: • SUSI MERET (University of Aalborg): “Exploring the Social, Political and Cultural Challenges of Right Wing Populism in the Nordic Countries: Comparative Approaches, Developments and Perspectives”
• ELISABETH EIDE (Oslo University College and University of Bergen): “Media Discourses, Migration and Post-22.7-Debates; a Critical Inquiry”
Chair: Elisabeth Ivarsflaten (Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen)
14.30-14.45: Coffee break.
14.45-16.30: PANEL DISCUSSION: “The Future of IMER Research”
David Ley (University of British Columbia) Susi Meret (University of Aalborg) Hilde Lidén (Nordic Migration Research and Institute for Social Research, Oslo) Yngve G. Lithman (IMER Bergen and University of Bergen) Mette Andersson (IMER Bergen and University of Bergen) Hakan G. Sicakkan (IMER Bergen and University of Bergen)
Chair: Yngve G. Lithman (IMER Bergen and Department of Sociology, University of Bergen)
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19:00: Performance lecture by artist TANJA OSTOJIC: “Crossing Borders“. Venue: Galleri 3,14. Vågsallmenningen 12. Free entrance. Refreshments will be served. In addition, her project “Misplaced Women? Marking the City” is a series of performances, interventions and delegated performances which will take place in the public space of Bergen previous to the lecture. In collaboration with the International Contemporary Art Foundation 3,14. Friday 11 November PhD course. PhD candidates, please see the Course Site for more information.
Venue: Seminar room, Uni Rokkan Centre, Nygårdsgt. 5, 6th floor. 10:15-16:30: Essay presentations. Conference fee: Nok 500,- for two days (includes lunch) Students: Nok 300,- REGISTRATION to Hanna Skartveit. Still possible to register!
The Conference is organised in collaboration with Uni Rokkan Centre, Dept. of Social Anthropology, Dept. of Sociology, Dept. of Geography, Dept. of Comparative Politics and SKOK, University of Bergen.