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Vorlesung
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3.90.125 - Migration and mobility: Disciplinary approaches and transdisciplinary perspectives
- Dr. Lydia Potts
- Prof. Dr. Martin Butler
Montag: 14:00 - 16:00, wöchentlich (ab 31.10.2016)
Mittwoch: 14:00 - 16:00, wöchentlich (ab 02.11.2016)
Termine am Montag, 21.11.2016 16:00 - 18:00
Lecture Series
31 October to 30 November
Monday and Wednesday 14-16h (2.15-3.45 pm)
A1 0-005.
The lecture series is organised by
Prof. Dr. Martin Butler, Institute of English and American Studies, UOL
Dr. Lydia Potts, Working group Migration – Gender – Politics, UOL
Mon, 31 October, 14-16h
Prof. Dr. Karma Chavez, Center for Mexican American Studies & Department
of Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, USA: The Necropolitical Functions of Biocitizenship: The 6th International
AIDS Conference and the US Ban on HIV Positive Immigrants
Wed, 2 November, 14-16h
Jodi Bieber, Photographer, South Africa: Between Darkness and Light. Photographic Representations of
Migration, Gender, Violence
Mon, 7 November, 14-16h
Prof. Dr. Juliana Goschler, Institute of German Studies, UOL: Migration and education – Linguistic challenges in classroom and textbook
language
Wed, 9 November, 14-16h
Wendo Olema, Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST),
Mbarara, Uganda: Social Re-Integration of formerly abducted young Mothers in Northern
Uganda
Mon, 14 November, 14-16h
Dr. Ulrike Lingen-Ali, Center for Migration, Education and Cultural Studies
(CMC), UOL: Shifting Families. Current Research on Migration, Family, Gender (tbc)
Wed, 16 November, 14-16h
Prof. Dr. Paul Mecheril, Institute of Educational Sciences, UOL: "I am not in fear but I am open to persuasion". Discursive Constructions of Threat in the Migration Society
Mon, 21 November, 14-16h
Prof. Dr. Ralf Grüttemeier, Institute of Dutch Studies, UOL: Max Havelaar and the Historicity of Travelling Things
Mon, 21 November, 16-18h
Jaafar Alloul, Interculturalism, Migration and Minorities Research Centre,
University of Leuven, Belgium: A critical anthropology of Maghrebi-Muslim mobilities in between the EU & Dubai: Research model & preliminary insights.
Wed, 23 November, 14-16h
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Hamann, Institute of English and American Studies, UOL: Language and Migration: Multilingualism – Linguistic, Psycholinguistic
and Educational Perspectives
Mon, 28 November, 14-16h
Prof. Dr. Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury, Vice Chancellor, Rabindra Bharati
University, Kolkata, India: Forced Migration and Issues of Transitional Justice
Wed, 30 November, 14-16h
Prof. Dr. Joris Schapendonk, Radboud University Nijmegen: Fortress Europe as a Mobile Space? Understanding the Im/Mobility of African Migrants Within and Beyond the EU
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Seminar
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3.90.118 - German Language & Society
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The course will be organized by the Uni Oldenburg Language Centre.
Sessions from early September to late November.
This introductory course will welcome students to Germany by providing them with simple language skills and practical knowledge about living here.
Sessions during the IP
We will start with elementary German skills as we get to know one another in the group, then discuss in English practical issues about life in Oldenburg, including transportation, shopping, environmental protection, proper trash disposal, culture and entertainment. The third session will then broaden our focus to daily life in Germany, including banking, the train system, academic life, political structure, medical and social services.
Sessions in October/November
The bulk of the course is eight (weekly) sessions of two hours each. Language topics include meeting and greeting people, spelling, numbers, asking for directions and handling emergencies. Cultural topics include attitudes toward time, levels of formality and permissiveness, friendships, invitations, public and private space, customs and holidays.
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3.90.119 - Academic writing
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3.90.121 - Research Methods for Transcultural Contexts: Seminar A
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3.90.122 - FÄLLT AUS: Research Methods for Transcultural Contexts: Seminar B
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3.90.123 - Ethnography/Qualitative Research (A)
- Dr. phil. Lüder Tietz, M.A.
Donnerstag: 12:00 - 14:00, wöchentlich (ab 20.10.2016)
Termine am Donnerstag, 06.10.2016, Donnerstag, 13.10.2016 12:00 - 14:00
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3.90.143 - Discourse Analysis
Termine am Dienstag, 01.11.2016 09:00 - 13:00, Mittwoch, 02.11.2016 16:00 - 20:00
This workshop is organised in the context of the study programme EMMIR - for readings and further information please contact emmir@uol.de
Outline
Discourse Analysis is – as much as its area of interest, i.e. discourse itself –not a clearly defined concept. Much rather, whoever decides to analyze a topic or object from a discourse analytical perspective will find varying options to do so. From critical discourse analysis to linguistic discourse analysis, the methods are various and manifold. Nevertheless, the origin of this academic method has been commonly attributed to Michel Foucault and his work on human sexuality and madness, as well as on institutions for punishment and reform. Foucauldian discourse analysis – as we will conceptualize it – provides a method for bringing together statements made in different media (such as books, newspapers, comics, television and film, radio, theater, performances) in a structured manner. In our course we will briefly locate this discourse analytical approach in the context of other approaches available. In order to remain practice-oriented, we will develop a concrete set of questions which you can apply in your project and bring to whatever field you wish to intervene in – be it the realm of politics, culture or the social, if you are confronted with historical or contemporary material, if you deal with government statements, newspaper articles, television series, movies or performances.
Workload: about 50 pages of reading material, discussion of material, experimental application of discourse analytical method on selected material or within your own projects.
Readings
Foucault, Michel, 1986. The Discourse on Language. In Hazard Adams and Leeroy Searle (Ed.), Critical Theory since 1985. Talahassee: Florida State University Press, pp.148-162.
Bionote
Daniel Šíp is lecturer at the Department of English and American Studies.
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3.90.155 - Presentation Skills
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The ability to deliver a professional and effective presentation in English is becoming an important prerequisite in the world of academia and work. But what makes a good presentation? Without exception, all presentations have one thing in common – enthusiasm, both for their subject and for the business of presenting it. There are many things that contribute to the success of a presentation:
- new and unusual content
- a clear structure
- a good sense of timing
- a sensitivity for the audience
- imaginative use of visual aids
- the ability to project confidence and humor
- the desire to challenge and inspire the audience
This is a 2-day course. The first day is spent considering the nature of a presentation – considering structure, content, timing, body language to name but a few. The course will be interactive and all participants can expect to be involved in presenting. The second day (four weeks later) is focussed on applying the aforementioned skills in the professional delivery of a presentation. This will have been written before the commencement of this day and will be the presentation developed by your Group for assessment on 2 December. It will act as the perfect opportunity to practice and receive feedback from the lecturer and fellow students.
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3.90.158 - The Bind of Age in Stephen Castles' Age of Migration
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3.90.159 - Turkish Rap in Germany – A workshop on a music style that emerged among young migrants
Termine am Dienstag, 01.11.2016 14:00 - 18:00, Mittwoch, 02.11.2016 09:00 - 13:00
Die Veranstaltung findet statt im Rahmen des Studiengangs EMMIR ist aber für andere Studierende der Universität geöffnet. Für Fragen wenden Sie sich bitte an emmir@uni-oldenburg.de
Carried out by Dr. Verda Kaya (Berlin)
Outline
The history of German–Turkish rap began in the 1980s when teenagers from Turkish backgrounds started to imitate this new American music style. Later, the youth developed indigenous styles aligned with their own cultural and social background by combining different songs and languages and rapping about their specific local, national and transnational situation. Rap music has become a medium through which these youth express their opinions, emotions, and affiliations as well as their position relative to other social groups.
In this workshop, by analyzing selected songs and video clips from different periods, we will investigate how political and social circumstances and the position of German–Turkish youth within German society have affected the rap music produced by these artists. I will draw examples from my own research, but students are also welcome to contribute their own experiences and perspectives.
Readings
• Bower, Kathrin (2011): Minority Identity as German Identity in Conscious Rap and Gangsta Rap: Pushing the Margins, Redefending the Center. German Studies Review 34/2, 377- 398.
• Eksner, Julia (2006) : Ghetto Ideologies, Youth Identities and Stylized Turkish German - Turkish Youth in Berlin – Kreuzberg. Berlin: LIT Verlag Berlin, 7-14 & 30-50.
• Elias, Norbert (1994): The Established and the Outsiders – A Sociological Enquiry into Community Problems. London: Sage Publicstions, p XV-LII.
• Hall, Stuart (1993): Question of cultural identity . In: Hall, Stuart & Davod Jeöd & Tony McGrew (eds): Modernity and ist Futures. Polit Press, 291-309.
• Hall, Stuart (1990): Cultural Identity and Diaspora; URL: http://people.ucsc.edu/~jizamora/Hall_Cultural_Identity_and_Diaspora.pdf; 222-237.
• Kautny, Oliver (2013): Immigrant HipHop in Germany: The Cultural Identities of Migrants. In: Nitzsche, Sina & Walter Grünzweig (eds): Hip-Hop in Europe – Cultural Identities and Transnational Flows. Berlin: LIT, 405-419.
Bionote
Verda Kaya is working as a freelance researcher in Berlin. She received her Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from the European University Viadrina in 2015. Her main areas of research are popular culture, urban anthropology, migration, transnationalism, music, HipHop, and ethnicity in Berlin and Istanbul. She is the author of two books (in German): HipHop zwischen Istanbul und Berlin: Eine (deutsch-)türkische Jugendkultur im lokalen und transnationalen Beziehungsgeflecht and Lehmburgen und Wellblechdächer: Architektur und Lebensform bei den Dagara in Ghana.
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3.90.161 - Follow the Migrant: Methodological Challenges of a Mobile Research Design
Termine am Dienstag, 29.11.2016, Donnerstag, 01.12.2016 14:00 - 18:00
Die Veranstaltung findet statt im Rahmen des Studiengangs EMMIR ist aber für andere Studierende der Universität geöffnet. Für Fragen wenden Sie sich bitte an emmir@uni-oldenburg.de
Carried out by Dr. Joris Schapendonk (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Outline
The recent paradigmatic shift from the ‘sedentary’ to the ‘mobile’ (Sheller and Urry 2006) has led to several methodological challenges for social scientists. Main questions are: 1) how can we grasp the mobility of people/goods/ideas? And; 2) does mobility research inevitably imply that researchers have to be mobile too? This workshop critically discusses the opportunities and pitfalls of mobile methodologies. The first part reviews a variety of mobile research designs and mobile methods used in different disciplines. The second part specifically focuses on opportunities and pitfalls of a longitudinal research aiming to understand the dynamics of the migration trajectories of sub-Saharan African migrants who move to and in the European Union. Finally, I reflect on some ethical dilemmas that have emerged in my mobility research (e.g. does the following of migrants increase the traceability of their trajectories, and what does this mean?).
Readings
Theory
• Cresswell, T. (2010). Towards a politics of mobility. Environment and planning. D, Society and space, 28(1), 17-31 (14pages)
• Walters, W. (2014). Migration, vehicles, and politics. Three theses on viapolitics. European Journal of Social Theory, 1368431014554859. (19pages)
• Levitt, P. and Jaworsky (2007): Transnational Migration Studies: Past Developments and Future Trends, Annual Reviews Sociology, 33: 129-156 (27pages)
Methodology
• Marcus, G. E. (1995). Ethnography in/of the world system: The emergence of multi-sited ethnography. Annual review of anthropology, 95-117. (23 pages)
• Hage, G. (2005). A not so multi-sited ethnography of a not so imagined community. Anthropological theory, 5(4), 463-475. (12pages)
Empirical papers
• Schapendonk, J., & Steel, G. (2014). Following migrant trajectories: The im/mobility of Sub-Saharan Africans en route to the European Union. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 104(2), 262-270. (8 pages)
• Mountz, A. (2011). Where asylum-seekers wait: feminist counter-topographies of sites between states. Gender, Place & Culture, 18(3), 381-399. (17 pages)
Bionote
Joris Schapendonk is Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography, Environment and Spatial Planning at Radboud University Nijmegen. His current research focuses on the dynamics of African migration, the border politics of the European Union, and the geography of grassroots welcoming acts towards undocumented migrants. From the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, he received a Veni-grant (2015-2018) for his current research on the intra-EU mobility of African migrants. His work has been published in, among others, Annals of the Association of American Geographers (2014), Migration Studies (2014) and Population, Space and Place (2014).
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3.90.162 - Art-based research in Nakivale Settlement
Termine am Freitag, 04.11.2016 14:00 - 18:00, Samstag, 05.11.2016 09:00 - 13:00
This workshop is organised in the context of the study programme EMMIR - for readings and further information please contact emmir@uol.de
Teacher
Matteo Carognani, Carlos Morgado
Outline
This workshop will be divided into two parts. The first day will focus on the different dimensions of Nakivale and the potential role of Art Based Research in this setting; the second day will provide space for interaction, discussion and reflections of a potential continuation of what might have involuntarily started with Sauti Zetu – or art based research projects in other settings.
All this should have the ultimate goals of developing new ideas for creating continuity and sustainability, with a critical eye on ethics; and of providing students with as much information as possible and therefore orienting their internship preparation, however highlighting the fact that there's no way to plan everything in advance.
Readings
ABR:
• Barnes 2009. Drawing a Line - A discussion of ethics in participatory arts with Refugees (p. 34-40; 7 pp.)
• Chenail 2008. "But is it research?" A review of Patricia Leavy "Methods Meet Art: Art Based Practices" (p.7-10; 4 pp.)
• Leavy 2009. Methods Meet Art. Chapter 1: Social Research and the Creative Arts – An Introduction (p.1-24; 24 pp)
• O'Neill 2008. Transnational Refugees: the Transformative Role of Art (19 pp.)
• Rodgers 2008. 'Hanging Out' with forced migrants: Methodological and ethical challenges. (2 pp.)
NAKIVALE AND ENCAMPMENT:
• Agier 2011. "Managing The Undesirable. "3. An ethnologist in the Refugee Camps + 4. The interminable Insomnia of Exile: The Camp as an Ordinary Exceptionalism". (p. 63-86; 24 pp.)
• Agier 2011. "Managing The Undesirable. "Part Three. After the Camps.. + 10. If this is a Town + 11. If this is a World + 12. If this is a government.". (p. 177-210; 34 pp.)
• Harrell Bond 2002. "Can Humanitarian Work with Refugees Be Humane?" (33 pp.)
• Refugee Studies Centre 2013. Refugee Livelihoods in Kampala, Nakivale and Kyangwali Refugee Settlement - Patterns of engagement with the private sector. (20 pp.)
Bionote
Both Matteo Carbognani and Carlos Morgado are EMMIR graduates; they both spent time at Nakivale refugee settlement in Nakivale and dedicated their theses to issues around Art based research in the settlement setting.
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