Past events

Past events at AMIS (2013-)

• 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.

• 4 Dec. 2019, 14:00-15:30

  Migration as Comic

  A dialogue with Halfdan Pisket

• 19 Nov. 2019, 17:00-20:00

  Film Screening and Discussion of Lost in Lebanon

  Film screening and discussion of "Lost in Lebanon"
  AMIS Culture Club
  Presented with Syrian Doc Days
  
  Directed by: Georgia Scott, Sophia Scott

• 13 Nov. 2019, 14:00-15:30

  Book Launch: Reframing Migration, Diversity and the Arts

  Professor Anne Ring Petersen (UCPH) and associate professor Moritz Schramm (SDU) explore, together with other authors, offer a review of the origin of the concept of migration in the cultural scene of Berlin and how it has taken on a variety of meanings and works in different ways within different national, cultural and disciplinary contexts.

• 16 Aug. 2019, 10:00-12:00

  Asylum seeking in the South Pacific: Perspectives on the case of Manus Island

  Stories of the treatment of asylum seekers at the Manus Island Regional Processing Centre in Papua New Guinea have attracted much international attention. In this public lecture, the case of will be addressed and analyzed from different perspectives.

• 12 June 2019, 10:15-18:00

  Europe Trouble: Welcome Culture and the Disruption of the European Border Regime

  Closing conference for the research project "Helping Hands".

• 12 June 2019, 10:15-12:00

  Solidarians and humanitarians in the land of Xenios Zeus: Responses to the “(European) migration crisis”

  Lecture by Katerina Rozakou, Panteion University of Social and Political Science.

• 3 May 2019, 13:30-16:00

  Human Flow - Ai Weiwei

  Human Flow is a documentary movie led by the internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei.
  The documentary elucidates both the staggering scale of the refugee crisis and its profoundly personal human impact.

• 5 Apr. 2019, 15:00-16:00

  Book launch: Secular bodies, affects and emotions

  This book is about how we can think about the secular as something that is practiced, felt and experienced.

• 5 Apr. 2019, 13:15-14:30

  The 'innocence' of the "Children of the Caliphate"

  The issue of the so-called ‘returnees’, i.e. European Fighters who have joined militias in the Middle-East in the aftermaths of the Arab Spring, belongs to one of the most controversial issues in the current political debates. Even more controversial, is the status of their children.

• 21 Mar. 2019, 14:15-15:00

  Ferruh Yilmaz

  Ferruh Yilmaz will give a guest lecture about his book: How the Workers Became Muslims - Immigration, Culture, and Hegemonic Transformation in Europe.

• 7 Feb. 2019, 13:00-14:00

  Japanese Immigration: A Brief Review & Current Issues

  This presentation will provide an outline of the development of modern Japanese immigration policy, discuss current immigration-related issues Japan is grappling with, and look to draw comparisons to immigration policy and issues in Denmark.

• 29 Nov. 2018, 10:00-16:30

  Diversity, Values and Social Cohesion

  Increasingly, immigration gives rise to ethnic diversity in liberal democracies. One worry about diversity, which plays an important role in both academic and public debates, is whether diversity tends to drive down social cohesion and therefore the basis for well-functioning democratic institutions and egalitarian welfare states.

• 9 Nov. 2018, 10:00-12:00

  Book launch: Asylum Determination in Europe

  Drawing on new research material from ten European countries, Asylum Determination in Europe: Ethnographic Perspectives brings together a range of detailed accounts of the legal and bureaucratic processes by which asylum claims are decided.

• 7 Nov. 2018, 15:30-17:00

  AMIS Culture Club: Film Screening November

  
  We watch the two documentaries ‘Fire under the Ashes’ and ‘Another Danish Spring’, and afterwards the director of ‘Fire under the Ashes’, Arash Setoodeh, will tell about his work.