Past events

Past events at AMIS (2013-)

• 7 Nov. 2023, 10:00-11:30

  Time as Method in Migration Studies

  The Mobilities Research Cluster at Saxo is delighted to invite everyone to a talk with Melanie Griffiths (University of Birmingham) on time and migration.

• 12 Oct. 2023, 9:30-17:00

  AMIS 10th Anniversary Celebration

  AMIS celebrates its 10^th anniversary on 12 October 12 2023 at South Campus, UCPH, marking the first intake of students to the Master of Arts programme in 2014.

• 3 May 2023, 14:15-15:30

  Belonging in Unceded Territory: Immigration and Settler Identity in Vancouver

  AMIS Guest Lecture by Antje Ellermann, Professor of Political Science and Founding Director of the Centre for Migration Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm(Musqueam) territory.

• 2 May 2023, 10:00-15:30

  AMIS Student Conference

  Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity: a Conference on Queer perspectives on Migration

• 25 Apr. 2023, 14:00

  Åbent seminar: (U)lige adgang for alle

  Migration Research Platform (UCPH) afholder et åbent seminar om etniske minoriteters møder med den danske velfærdsstat. 

• 25 Nov. 2022, 13:00-16:00

  Personal Sources in Migration Studies

  Workshop with presentations by Tony Kushner, Sonia Cancian and Gabriel Abarca-Brown.

• 17 Aug. - 19 Aug. 2022

  RE:MIGRATION - New perspectives on movement, research, and society

  The 21st Nordic Migration Research Conference – RE:MIGRATION.

• 20 June 2022, 14:15-16:00

  Migrants are not props to alert about the dangers of climate change

  Director Francois Gemenne from The HUGO Observatory will give a public lecture on climate change induced migration with the title Migrants are not props to alert about the dangers of climate change.

• 31 May 2022, 15:00-16:30

  The Danish Special Act and the Reception of Ukrainian refugees in Denmark

  At this seminar researchers and experts will take a 360-degree view of the Danish Special Act, considering it in relation to the EU Temporary Protection Directive, exploring its effects on the reception of Ukrainian refugees in the Danish health care system and within municipal housing.

• 20 May 2022, 11:00-12:00

  Research methodologies and ethical challenges in digital migration studies - Caring for (big) data?

  DIGINAUTS book launch.

• 15 Mar. 2022, 15:00-16:30

  AMIS Seminar: The diasporic mobilization of Ukrainians in Denmark: Ukrainian voices

  In this seminar, we hear from the Association of Ukrainians in Denmark (AUD) about the work they are doing, the history and profile of the Ukrainian community in Denmark, and the mobilization of that community over the last years.

• 2 Dec. 2021, 13:00-17:00

  8th AMIS-MIM Masters conference 2021: Invisibility in Migration Studies

  8th AMIS-MIM joint student conference 2021.

• 12 Nov. 2021, 14:00-16:00

  Invisibility in African Displacements

  Book launch.

• 6 Sept. 2021, 21:00

  Migration and Art: Screening and discussion with Behrouz Boochani and Arash Kamali Sarvestani

  In collaboration with the Centre for Advanced Migration Studies (AMIS), Cinemateket arranges a screening of the film ‘Chauka, Please Tell us the Time’ (2017).

• 18 June 2021, 13:30-15:00

  Exile, Humanitarianism, and the Mobility of Belonging among Tuareg former slaves from Mali in Niger

  The 4th SlaFMig-AMIS lecture will be given by Souleymane Diallo, lecturer at Münster University, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology.

• 10 May 2021, 15:00-17:00

  Contemporary slavery, forced displacement and diasporic activism in West Africa

  A conversation with anti-slavery activist Salif Ladji Kamara (RMFP) and AMIS thesis writers Nolwenn Marconnet and Leah Durst-Lee.

• 27 Apr. 2021, 12:00-14:00

  Migrant Dreams

  AMIS book seminar with Samuli Schielke.

• 23 Apr. 2021, 13:30-15:00

  Lecture 2: Travelling concepts: a debate on the meanings of post-slavery

  Roundtable debate with prof. Alice Bellagamba, University of Milan-Bicocca, prof. Dr. Baz Lecocq, Humboldt University Berlin, and prof. Dr. Felicitas Becker, Ghent University, moderated by associate prof. Lotte Pelckmans, University of Copenhagen (AMIS).

• 26 Feb. 2021, 15:00-16:30

  AMIS seminar - Danish desires to export asylum responsibility to camps outside Europe: A research-based discussion

  This AMIS seminar gathers some of Denmark's foremost experts on asylum and migration policy to contribute research-based, multidisciplinary perspectives for discussing the currently unfolding processes in Danish asylum politics.

• 3 Dec. 2020, 13:00-17:00

  7th Masters conference on Migration studies: Current PhD-projects in the Øresund region

  The aim of the conference is to provide an opportunity for master’s students to learn about recently finished and ongoing PhD projects and for students at different levels to interact.

• 2 Oct. 2020, 10:15-12:00

  Writing Through Fences: A History from Below

  AMIS Guest Lecture by Behrouz Boochani, Associate Professor in Social Sciences, UNSW and Omid Tofighian, Adjunct Lecturer, UNSW/University of Sydney.

• 26 June 2020, 15

  West African post-slavery and liminal diasporic egalitarianism

  AMIS lecture by anthropologist Dr Paolo Gaibazzi, currently Associated Researcher at the ZMO-Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin.

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  14 Apr. 2020, 13:15-15:00

  Book Launch: Immigrants on Grindr: Race, Sexuality and Belonging Online

  Presentation by Assistant Professor Andrew Shield, Institute for History, Leiden University. Introduction by Marie Sandberg, AMIS, University of Copenhagen

• 13 Dec. 2019, 10:00-12:00

  Guest Lecture by Gregory Feldman

  Migrants, citizens, and states: Relocating the source of empowerment in a precarious world

• 5 Dec. 2019, 13:00-17:00

  6th AMIS-MIM MASTERS CONFERENCE

  The aim is to provide an opportunity for master's students in Advanced Migration Studies in Copenhagen and International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER) in Malmö to meet and exchange experiences and ideas.