Past events – University of Copenhagen

23 Nov. 2016, 4:30

AMIS Culture Club: What is the Purpose of a National Museum?

How can a national museum continuously make itself relevant to a broad segment of visitors in a time of increasing migration and diversity?

2 May 2016, 3:15-5:00

Open Lecture: From Diversity to Conviviality

Intra-EU Mobility and International Migration to Denmark in Times of Economic Recession - Deniz Neriman Duru (AMIS, UCPH)

29 Apr. 2016, 15:00-17:00

Roundtable: Planning for Cultural and Ethnic Pluralism

This roundtable discusses the issue of planning for cultural and ethnic pluralism, focusing especially on urban diversity politics and practices related to migration

28 Apr. 2016, 19:15

AMIS Culture Club, Film Screening

Terraferma by Emanuele Crialese

27 Apr. 2016, 9:15

Workshop: We-identity and its social and political implications

Co-organized by AMIS and Center for Subjectivity Research

7 Apr. 2016, 1 pm

PhD defence: A Denmark of Parallel Societies (NOTE: In Danish)

Mikaela von Freiesleben defends her PhD thesis.

22 Mar. 2016, 4 pm

AMIS Culture Club

Guided visit to the Hamad Bin Khalifa Civilisation Center - Registration necessary

4 Mar. 2016, 1:15-3:00

Open Lecture: Does the Migrant Cause Exist?

European ‘refugee crisis’ and the activation of civil society in the name of humanity - by Michel Agier (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)

18 Feb. - 19 Feb. 2016

IMISCOE Spring Conference (organized by AMIS)

Measures of Control: Managing Migration in the 21. Century. Centre for Advanced Migration Studies (AMIS) and IMISCOE jointly organize a conference on controlling migration, University of Copenhagen, 18-19 February 2016.

3 Dec. 2015, 10:00-15:30

2nd AMIS-MIM Masters Conference on Migration Studies

This annual masters conference is organized by AMIS and MIM (Malmo Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare, University of Malmo).

27 Nov. 2015, 15:15-16:15

Moving Borders

- European Border Transformations in Past and Present. Presentation by Marie Sandberg.

25 Nov. 2015, 20:00

AMIS Culture Club: Film screening - The Promise

Movie by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

6 Nov. 2015, 17:00

AMIS Culture Club: Visit to Trampoline House

Community center in Nordvest - those who wish can join the regular "peoples kitchen" afterwards

6 Nov. 2015, 10:15-12:00

AMIS Public Lecture: Eric Uslaner

On "Diversity, Segregation, and Trust"

2 Nov. 2015, 15:15-17:00

Book launch: Mobility Makes States – Migration and Power in Africa

Authors and editors of the book will be on hand to engage in a lively conversation on the book’s efforts to provide a new voice for African research in the study of the politics of migration.

9 Oct. 2015, 17:00

AMIS Culture Club: Guided tour of multi-ethnic Nørrebro

Guide: Garbi Schmidt, University of Roskilde

30 Sept. 2015, 15:15-17:00

AMIS Public Lecture: Tina Gudrun Jensen

AMIS affiliate, Tina Gudrun Jensen, will lecture on "The Complexity of Neighbourhood Relations in a Multi-Ethnic Social Housing Project in Copenhagen". All interested are welcome.

7 Sept. 2015, 17:30-20:30

AMIS Roundtable: The Refugee Crisis

The dramatic events characterizing Europe’s current response to refugees will be discussed at this AMIS Roundtable. All interested are welcome to attend.

1 July 2015, 1 pm

Diasporas and new media for development - perspectives

The role of new media in communication exchange and the culture of diasporas cannot be underestimated, from the multifarious daily contacts between people across the world, to large scale transfer of remittance

21 May 2015, 10:00-16:30

VÆRDIKAMPE

Ytringsfrihed, multikulturalisme og positiv særbehandling er blandt temaerne, når Centre for Advanced Migration Studies tager pulsen på flere af tidens mest aktuelle værdikampe. Kom og mød flere markante samfundsdebattører.

17 Apr. 2015, 5 pm

AMIS Culture Club Opening party of the new Center for Art on Migration Politics exhibition venue

Center for Art on Migration Politics (CAMP) invites AMIS Culture Club to their opening party and exhibition.

16 Apr. 2015, 13:15-15:00

Assistant Professor Brian Arly Jacobsen (University of Copenhagen) The Political Construction of Jews and Muslims in the Danish Parliament

This lecture focuses on Danish politicians’ politicization of Jews and Judaism during 1903-45, and Muslims and Islam during 1967-2005.

29 Jan. - 30 Jan. 2015

IMISCOE Research Group TRANSMIG conference: Transnational Migration: Disciplinary Impacts

AMIS is co-organisering this conference with Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM) and the Department of Global Political Studies at Malmö University.

14 Jan. 2015, 13:00-14:00

AMIS Public Lecture: Thomas Gammeltoft Hansen: Migration Industries

Thomas Gammeltoft Hansen offers new concepts and theory for the study of international migration by taking multifaceted processes and actors into account.

12 Dec. 2014, 2:15

Professor Joseph Carens (University of Toronto): The Dispossessed: The Ethics of Refugee Policy

The central claim of this talk is that rich democratic states are failing to meet their moral responsibility to admit refugees, given their own formal and informal commitments.