{"id":1686,"date":"2020-05-19T12:17:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T10:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2020-05-19T12:48:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T10:48:07","slug":"imer-webinar-29-05-the-promise-of-babettes-feast-facilitated-encounters-between-locals-and-refugees-in-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/?p=1686","title":{"rendered":"IMER Webinar 29.05: The Promise of Babette\u2019s Feast: Facilitated Encounters between Locals and Refugees in Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a deep-rooted cultural belief that encounters between strangers in local settings can bring about social change. Mette Str\u00f8ms\u00f8<\/a>, a researcher at the Sociology Department UiB, brings this aspect to the forefront in her study of local community initiatives established in the wake of the refugee influx in 2015.\u00a0 Mette will present her co-authored article with Susanne Bygnes<\/a> whereby they strive to unpack the promise, inherent contradictions and transformative potential of the facilitated encounters in local communities where newcomers settled. The reference to Karen Blixen\u2019s short story Babette\u2019s feast indicate the cultural resonance of the promise in the facilitated encounters between newcomers and permanent residents.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> Mette Str\u00f8ms\u00f8<\/a> is a researcher for IMEX<\/a> at the department of Sociology, UiB. She holds a PhD in Human Geography. Her research interests fall at the intersection of political geography and social and cultural geography, with a focus on everyday nationhood and especially the reconciliation between nation and diversity.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Time: Friday 29th of May 2020, 11.00 – 12.00 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Join us on Zoom<\/a>
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is a deep-rooted cultural belief that encounters between strangers in local settings can bring about social change. Mette Str\u00f8ms\u00f8, a researcher at the Sociology Department UiB, brings this aspect to the forefront in her study of local community initiatives established in the wake of the refugee influx in 2015.\u00a0 Mette will present her co-authored […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47535,47526,47527,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-migration","category-seminar","category-sociology","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1697,"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions\/1697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}