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
