Past events

Past events at AMIS (2013-)

• 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.

• 10 Dec. 2014

  1st AMIS/MIM Masters Conference on Migration Studies

  This Masters Conference organised by AMIS and MIM presents scholars from AMIS, MIM and Roskilde University within the field of migration research.

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  6 Nov. - 7 Nov. 2014

  Comparative Studies in Migration and Memory

  At a time when transnational mobility is both noticeable and controversial it matters greatly that we better understand the human experience of migration: its subjective histories, social processes and imaginative implications. Registration deadline: 3^rd October.

• 8 Oct. 2014, 8 pm

  AMIS Culture Club, Film screening: Dirty Pretty Things by Stephen Frears

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• 16 Dec. 2013, 10am

  AMIS conference: New Frontiers - Migration in the 21st Century

  AMIS organizes a conference on migration in the 21^st century.

• 6 Dec. 2013, 1:15

  AMIS seminar with Tariq Modood: "Multiculturalism: what about the majority?" (NEW LOCATION)

  AMIS presents a talk by Tariq Modood, Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy, Director, University Research Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, University of Bristol, Founding Co-editor of Ethnicities (Sage) and member of AMIS’ International Advisory Board. Please note that the location has been changed!

• 16 Nov. 2013, 10:15

  Workshop: Theorizing Multiculturalism

  AMIS and the Philosophy section, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, co-organize the workshop Theorizing Multiculturalism.

• 7 Nov. - 8 Nov. 2013

  Conference: Migration and The Uses of Memory

  AMIS co-organizes the conference Migration and The Uses of Memory in cooperation with The Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies (ENGEROM) and the PhD Programme for Transnational and Migration Studies (TRAMS).

• 10 Oct. 2013, 1:15

  AMIS seminar: Justice, Democracy and Nation-building

  Research Group for Political Philosophy, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication and AMIS co-organize a seminar with Wayne Norman (Duke University) on “Justice, Democracy and Nation-building: Is it possible to be an ethical nationalist?”

• 30 Sept. 2013, 1:15

  AMIS seminar: Human Trafficking

  AMIS organizes a seminar on human trafficking.

• 6 May 2013, 13:15

  AMIS Seminar: The rise of the migration control industry: political, legal and democratic consequences

  Seminar on migration industries and border enforcement activities. Post.doc Martin Lemberg-Pedersen (AMIS, University of Copenhagen) and Senior Researcher Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen (DIIS) will present their work on the subject.

• 24 Apr. 2013, 13:15

  AMIS Seminar: Migration Studies Relay

  Seminar on the possibilities and challenges of interdisciplinary migration research.

• 15 Mar. 2013, 1pm

  AMIS inauguration

  The Centre for Advanced Migration Studies (AMIS) opens on 15 March 2013 at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen.