Past events – University of Copenhagen

24 Oct. - 26 Oct. 2018

The Refugees, Borders and Membership Conference at Malmö University

This years AMIS/MIM student conference collaboration has been changed to a conference at Malmö University

3 Oct. 2018, 9:55

AMIS Culture Club: Visit to the Immigrant Museum

In this event we will visit the Immigrant museum i Furesø.

1 June 2018, 13:15-15:00

Pitfalls and Promises of Researching Super-diversity

Lecture by Susanne WessendorfEver since the notion of super-diversity was first coined in 2007 (Vertovec 2007), the idea of a concept which captures the increasing diversification of immigration-related diversity has gained much academic and policy attention.

25 May 2018, 14:15-15:30

Epistemologies of the ‘Muslim Question’ in Europe. On the Politics of Knowledge Production in a Minefield

Amir-Schirin Moazami critically reflects of the politics of knowledge production undergirding hegemonic epistemologies on the “Muslim Question” in Europe.

3 May 2018, 14:15-16:00

Immigrants in the Sexual Revolution: a book talk

Andrew DJ Shield presents on his book, which focuses on the latter half of the twentieth century, when much of northwest Europe grew increasingly multicultural with the arrival of foreign workers and (post-)colonial migrants

25 Apr. 2018, 13:00-16:00

The importance of living in Ghetto areas – on health, social life, education and work?

The so-called ‘Ghetto areas’ in Denmark refer to areas with large neighbourhood
ethnic density. These areas are much debated in Danish politics, most lately in
the New Year speech of the Danish prime minister.

19 Apr. 2018, 14:00-16:00

Encountering urban diversity: Guided tour in Copenhagen's Nordvest with Linda Lapina

This guided tour of Copenhagen's Nordvest district examines encounters with difference in a contested urban setting.

5 Apr. 2018, 10:00-12:00

The 'Crisis of Liberalism': Reflections from Latvia, the Place Where History Never Ended

Open AMIS-CEMES Student Forum Lecture by Dr. Dace Dzenovska, Center on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford, followed by a Q&A session. Arranged by CEMES Student Forum and AMIS.

8 Mar. 2018, 14:15-16:00

‘Feeling in seeing’: embodiment and visual politics

Lecture by Manos Tsakiris, Dept. of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London & The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK

13 Feb. 2018, 13:15-15:00

Design of Prison Spaces: normalisation, humanisation or aspiration?

Lecture by Dominique Moran. Dominique Moran is Reader in Carceral Geography at the University of Birmingham and Chair of the Carceral Geography Working Group of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers.

4 Dec. 2017, 9:15-15:00

4th AMIS/MIM Masters Conference on Migration Studies

This annual masters conference is a collaboration between Centre for Advanced Migration Studies (AMIS), University of Copenhagen, and Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM), Malmö University

23 Nov. 2017, 14:00-16:00

AMIS Culture Club: Film Festival/ River Nomads

If we are to believe current media representations, African migrants move to Europe in massive numbers. This is however a typical ‘alternative fact’: internal migration within the continent is much more significant, both numerically, but also in terms of historical continuities and social lifestyles...

13 Nov. 2017, 13:15

A Postcolonial Inquiry into Danish Politics of Displacement

Martin Lemberg-Pedersen talks about his project Spaces, Borders, Bodies. A Postcolonial Inquiry into Danish Politics of Displacement that examines continuities and ruptures between current and colonial Danish politics on spaces, borders and bodies.

27 Oct. 2017, 15:00-18:00

AMIS Culture Club: Film Festival / Strane Straniere by Elisa Amoruso

The documentary Strane straniere (Strange Strangers) from 2016, directed by Elisa Amoruso is about five women from different countries: Sihem (Tunisia), Radi (Bulgaria), Sonia (China), Ana (Croatia) and Ljuba (Serbia). They have come to Italy in search of love, work, freedom, and sometimes by fate.

4 Oct. - 6 Oct. 2017

National Values and Social Cohesion

Conference at Centre for Advanced Migration Studies, University of Copenhagen, 4-6 October, 2017

27 Sept. 2017, 16:00-18:00

AMIS Culture Club Film Festival "Dreaming of Denmark" by documentarist Michael Graversen

Michael Graversen has followed the unaccompanied minor Wasiullah for more than three years. Wasiullah is one of the young refugees who has disappeared from a Danish asylum center.

22 Sept. 2017, 13:00-15:00

Life in Limbo: thwarted mobility and aspirations among refugees and migrants on the Balkan route.

Public seminar – jointly organised by the Centre for Advanced Migration Studies and Danish Refugee Council/Mixed Migration Platform

31 May 2017, 10:00-16:00

Nationalism

In response to immigration and globalisation more generally, nationalism is on the rise. Not only in terms of populist right-wing nationalist parties, but also in terms of an increased focus on the nation and national identity in the political mainstream.

31 May 2017, 9:30-15:30

Helping Hands Research Network on the Everyday Border Work of European Citizens

Kick-off Event to launch the interdisciplinary research network Helping Hands: Research Network on the Everyday Border Work of European Citizens, funded by the Danish Research Council 2017-2019.

10 May 2017, 10:00-16:00

ICT Solution Design, Data Driven Decision Making and Data Management: Creative Data In A Global World

The seminar debates new forms of research and project formats for ICT4D

30 Apr. 2017, 10 am

AMIS Culture Club Visit to the Copenhagen Christian Center, International Church

This Culture Club event involves participating in the monthly super church service, and after the service we are invited on a tour of the facilities.

19 Apr. 2017, 2:00-4:30

Immigration, Integration and Multiculturalism – Canadian and Danish Perspectives

The seminar will be followed by a reception and opening of the photo exhibition: Canada: Day 1.

6 Apr. 2017, 15:00-17:00

Humanitarianism and Body Economies

This seminar develops the concept of body economies to highlight the ways in which bodies are, on the one hand, constituted as physio-psycho-social assemblages, on the other, are sites and means through which material and symbolic value is produced, transformed, transported, marketed and exchanged.

24 Mar. 2017, 13:15-15:00

Times of Migration: Un/documented Lives in Marseille

AMIS Public Lecture by Christine Jacobsen (University of Bergen). Christine Jacobsen takes ethnographic fieldwork as a point of departure for discussing some approaches to the temporalities of irregular migration.

10 Jan. 2017, 13:00-17:00

Unpacking the ‘neoliberal city’

A number of general terms are routinely evoked to describe contemporary urban conditions, such as globalization, (super)diversity, migration, gentrification, neoliberalism, securitization and gentrification.