NEW BORDERLANDS
OR COSMOPOLITANISM FROM BELOW? (NeBoCo)
International Conference on Linking Theories
of Border, Concepts of Cosmopolitanism and
Citizenship in Migration Studies
Thursday 6 to Saturday 8 December 2012
Carl von Ossietzky University
Oldenburg,Germany
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The conference sets out to make a significant
contribution to the development of migration
theory. It will focus on three interlinked
concepts: border(land), citizenship, and
cosmopolitanism. Currently, these concepts are
highly debated in transnational and
transdisciplinary academic discourses –
initiating a fruitful dialogue between them
might lead to paradigmatic shifts in migration
studies and beyond.
Experts from different countries and academic
disciplines examine the specific dimensions of
the ongoing deep transformation of statehood,
citizenship, sovereignty and identity
formations in sending, transit, and receiving
states.
Papers will be presented and discussed in
following three sections:
- I
Border Regimes: Formations of European and
African Border(land)s
- II
Border Imaginaries: On the Discursive
(De-)Construction of Demarcation Lines
- III
Transgression of Borders and Transnational
Social Experiences: A New Cosmopolitanism
or Translocal, Postnational Citizenship.
Postgraduates from western and non-western
universities discuss their research projects
with an interdisciplinary group of scholars in
workshops.
At the pre-conference-event artists and
students present their work on migration and
border regimes at the Edith Russ Site for
Media Art. The conference starts with a public
evening lecture (Thursday, 6 December at
16:00). The distinguished Indian scholar
Ranabir Samaddar (Mahanirban Calcutta Research
Group) talks about “Empire, Globalisation, and
the Subject” at the city of Oldenburg's
cultural centre, Kulturzentrum PFL (Thursday,
6 December at 18:00). On Friday night (7
December at 20:30) a public music concert
takes place at the Aula of the University of
Oldenburg.
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