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Migrations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

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Date
Jeu, 07/01/2010 - sam, 07/03/2010
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Symposium, IDee, 1-3 July 2010, University of Vienna

This international symposium is dedicated to the discussion of the multiple interdisciplinary dimensions of ‘migrations’, both from the viewpoints of the Social Sciences and Humanities as well as from the manifold perspectives of the Natural Sciences.

Invited Panels:
-- Debating Migration; Education, Language, and Migration; Fundamentals of Diffusion and Spread in the Natural Sciences and beyond;
-- Media Representations of Migrants and Migration; Migration and the Genes;
-- Migration, Identity, and Belonging; Migration in/and Autobiographies; Urban Development and Migration.

Plenary Speakers:

Rainer Bauböck (EUI, Florence), Anne-Marie Fortier (Lancaster, UK), Hans-Jürgen Krumm (Vienna), Teun van Dijk (Barcelona), Nina Glick-Schiller (Manchester/Halle an der Saale), Karen Fog Olwig (Copenhagen).

In addition, NGOs, journalists, and politicians will be contacted to be able to make practitioners’ opinions and experiences visible.

Organizer
Institution
University Vienna (http://id.univie.ac.at/; Renée Schroeder, Ruth Wodak)
Personne à contacter
Michaela Messer