AMIS Student Conference
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity: a Conference on Queer perspectives on Migration
On May 2nd, 2023, the students of the MA in Advanced Migration Studies from the University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with the students from the MA in International Migration and Ethnic Relations from the University of Malmö, will hold a conference on the topic of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Migration topics. The conference will take place at UCPH, South Campus.
The major goal of the seminar is to study the topic of queer migration from several angles by engaging the participants through in-person and online guest lectures and student discussions.
Programme
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Guest lecture on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Claims of Asylum, by Dr. Carmelo Danisi, University of Bologna, Italy, and Nina Held, University of Salford, UK |
| 11:15 - 12:15 | Multimedia approaches to Queer Perspectives on migration |
| 12:15 - 13:15 | Lunch break |
| 13:15 - 14:15 | Civil Society and Queer Migration – a talk with the Project Director of RFSL Malmö, Barbora Majdisova |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Student-led sessions |
Dr. Carmelo Danisi is a Senior Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Public International Law at University of Bologna, Italy.
Among his publications, in 2015 he published his first book Human Rights Protection, Non-discrimination and sexual orientation (in Italian, Editoriale Scientifica) and in 2021 the ERC-funded monograph Queering Asylum in Europe (Springer, with the SOGICA team).
He has been part of the research project ‘SOGICA – Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Claims of Asylum: A European human rights challenge’, a four-year project funded by a Starting Grant of the European Research Council (ERC). Based in the School of Law at the University of Sussex, set out to produce the necessary evidence base for a more just and humane asylum process for individuals seeking refuge in Europe on the basis of their SOGI.
Carmelo Danisi has expressed his interest in holding a guest lecture to discuss the results of the SOGICA research project and its impact. He has also proposed to involve another researcher from the same project.
The guest lecture will be online as Carmelo Danisi currently works in Italy.
The first three sessions are open to the general public.
The conference is organized by students from AMIS, UCPH and the MIM programme, University of Malmö, and it is funded by the Centre for Advanced Migration Studies.
