Meetings and Conferences
June 26, 2024 | BIMUN Lecture Series "Global Movements: Exploring the Dynamics of Migration" | University of Bonn
Lecture "Citizenship als Praxis nach der Flucht: Zivilgesellschaftliche Aushandlungen im deutschen Aufnahmekontext" by Maria Ullrich.
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June 4, 2024 | Lecture Series „Recht kritisch denken“ | University of Münster
Lecture "The Mediterranean Border Regime. Postcolonial Perspectives on Civilian Sea Rescue" by Mareike Gebhardt at the Chair of Public International Law and International Human Rights Protection at the University of Münster.
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May 28, 2024 | Lecture "Zur Kolonialität der Demokratie: Zivile Seenotrettung im mediterranen Grenzregime“ | Sea-Eye, Kiel
by Mareike Gebhardt with the Kiel local group of Sea-Eye.
May 28, 2024 | 6th edition of the European Student Parliament 2024 | Strasbourg
Lecture "The role of (civilian) sea rescue in negotiations on the shape of Europe's external borders" (working title) by Maria Ullrich. Event organized by Let's Promote Europe e.V. (LPE) in cooperation with the European Parliament.
May 16–17, 2024 | Symposium "Dimensionen einer vielfältigen Fluchtforschung: Diversität, Intersektionalität und heterogene Ankunftskontexte in urbanen und ruralen Räumen“ | University for Applied Sciences München
Presentation „Umstrittenes Trauern: Präsenz und Teilhabe auf Lampedusa" by Sarah Spasiano.
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May 15, 2024 | Brown Bag Session at the Institute for Migration Studies and Interculteral Studies | University of Osnabrück
Lecture "Debates on (civilian) search and rescue in a cross-national comparison: First reflections from field research visits to Spain" by Maria Ullrich and Lena Laube.
December 13–15, 2023 | Workshop "Border Work and Authoritarian Transformation" | ZiF Bielefeld
Mareike Gebhardt participated in the Workshop as part of her fellowship in the research group "Internalizing Borders: The Social and Normative Consequences of the European Border Regime" at ZiF (Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld).
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November 1st, 2023 | Bremen Conversations on Global Solidarity | Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) & online
"Deconstructing Solidarity" Lecture by Mareike Gebhardt.
September 28, 2023 | International Congress "Political Theory in Times of Uncertainty" | University Bremen
"To flee or not to flee: Crisis Narratives and Fugitive Subjectivities." Lecture by Mareike Gebhardt.
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"Prekäre Subjektivierung. Kritische Perspektiven auf Semantiken der Krise." Panel with Mareike Gebhardt (Chair).
September 21, 2023 | 5. Kongress der deutschsprachigen Rechtssoziologie-Vereinigungen | Innsbruck
"Beyond Borders and Citizenship: The Conceptual Potential of “Access” in Interdisciplinary Research on Forced Migration." Presented by Barbara von Rütte, Lena Laube und Maria Ullrich.
September 15, 2023 | International Conference "Futuring Critical Theory, Institut für Sozialforschung | Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
"Deconstructing Solidarity: Towards a New Critical Theory of the Common." Lecture by Mareike Gebhardt.
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September 11–14, 2023 | Doctoral Colloquium "The Future of Democracy in Europe" | Villa Vigoni, Loveno di Menaggio
Sarah Spasiano participated in the Four Nations Doctoral Colloquium (Germany, France, Italy and Poland). Click here for the webpage of the colloquium.
September 4–8, 2023 | ECPR General Conference | Prague
Mareike Gebhardt presented the paper "Beyond Contestation: SAR NGOs in the Mediterranean Border Assemblage", co-authored with Lena Laube and Maria Ullrich.
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July 3–6, 2023 | 20th IMISCOE Annual Conference | Warschau & online.
"Search and rescue in the Mediterranean and the struggle over European democracy." Presentation by Lena Laube and Maria Ullrich at the 20th IMISCOE Annual Conference" Migration und Ungleichheiten. Auf der Suche nach Antworten und Lösungen".
March 23–24, 2023 | Meeting of the Working Group Democracy and Forced Migration of the German Network for Forced Migration Studies | Kiel University
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March 3, 2023 | German Sociological Association (DGS) | Bamberg.
Joint conference on “Comparing Recent and Older Refugee Migration in and to Europe – Sociological Perspectives” of the DGS sections “Sociology of Europe” and “Migration and Ethnic Minorities.” Lena Laube and Maria Ullrich presented their work on “Search and rescue in the Mediterranean and the struggle over the reception of refugees in the EU.”
February 15, 2023 | STS-MIGTEC Circle Event | online
Mareike Gebhardt, Lena Laube, and Maria Ullrich presented their paper (work in progress) “Beyond Orchestration and Contestation: SAR NGOS in the Mediterranean Border Assemblage.”
January 31, 2023 | FIW Bonn, online
Lena Laube and Sarah Spasiano presented the outline of ZivDem’s sub-project II „Zivile Seenotrettung als Teil des mediterranen Grenzregimes. Eine juridico-politische Analyse europäischer Migrations- und Asylpolitik auf Hoher See.“
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September 28–30, 2022 | 4th Conference of the German Network for Forced Migration and Refugee Studies | TU Chemnitz
The research group ZivDem presented a poster on their central thesis and research goals.
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Furthermore, Maria Ullrich and Mareike Gebhardt were discussants of the roundtable “Research on Forced Migration as Democracy Research,” which took place during the conference and was organized by the working group Democracy and Forced Migration.
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June 20–22, 2022 | 28th International Conference "The Environment of Democracy" | Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
Mareike Gebhardt, Lena Laube, and Maria Ullrich presented the first preliminary ideas of ZivDem at the Council for European Studies (CES) conference in a panel on “Migrant Rights Activism and Legal Support: Contestation or Conformation?” (organized by Saskia Bonjour and Sonja Evaldsson Mellström, both University of Amsterdam).
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