The Inter-thematic Group on Migration (ITM), of the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra (CES-UC) launched its 2022/23 activities with a series of ‘smart’ seminars that critically engages with migration(s) as a phenomenon that is concomitantly geopolitical and urban, social and cultural, as well as technologically determined by various interoperating regimes of biopolitical surveillance.
Reckoning with the urgency of approaching migration(s) through an interdisciplinary lens, the ITM Series: Migration(s) and Global Crises dedicates each seminar to a disciplinary standpoint or a situated manifestation of broader trends concerning the management of national borders, processing of refugee claims, and the socio-cultural inclusion of populations with a migrant background.
The ITM Series: Migration(s) and Global Crises adopts a 1 hour ‘smart’ format, where one speaker per seminar is invited to discuss a selected topic in dialogue with the seminar series organisers and audience. The seminar will be held online and open to the general public.
Refugees in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area: Resistance or Reformism for the Right to the City?, Sílvia Viegas (CES), May 12, 2022
Securitization and Crimmigration along the Migration Management Infrastructures in the EU, Nina Amelung (ICS), June 23, 2022
Biographical uncertainties and agency: the impact of origin, gender and race on the life course of young people of immigrant descent, Susi Resende (Unimib), October 28, 2022
Monsters, Catastrophes, and the Anthropocene: a Postcolonial Critique, Gaia Giuliani (CES), November 18, 2022
O refúgio em disputa: reflexões sobre a proteção internacional e o Novo Pacto sobre Migração e Asilo na UE, Ivana Belén Ruiz Estramil (CES), March 20, 2023
Scientific & organizing team: Cristiano Gianolla (CES-UC), Gaia Giuliani (CES-UC), Joana Sousa Ribeiro (CES-UC), Maria Elena Indelicato (CES-UC), Nina Amelung (ICS-Ulisboa), Sílvia Leiria Viegas (CIAC/UAlg).