[URBANTH-L] ANN: Transnational Europe II: Germany, Europe, and Global Migration Movements

[Angela Jancius]

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transnational europe II
germany, europe, and global migration movements
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International Symposium
Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
10. - 13.11.2005
 
With this bipartite series of symposia, TRANSIT  MIGRATION is working towards transnationalizing vernacular views on migration. The transnational europe debate started in 2004 in Rethymno/Greece, where we focussed on the formation of a new Europe of contested borders. On the geopolitical map of western hegemony, Europe is becoming bigger: by enlarging and empowering its border regime in the South and the East. On the map of migration tactics and imagination, however, Europe is down-sized and de-centred by becoming a province of global movements expressing and demanding freedom.
 
transnational europe II returns this perspective to Germany. Here, much emphasis is given to the image of being a "national fortress" at the core of "fortress Europe". Seen from the apparent "periphery" of migration movements, however, the assumed centrality of the nation state becomes a fragile construction. The state's will to power is confronted with new forms of European governance transforming national into European border zones. At the same time, migration itself effectively challenges all European and national attempts to govern it.
 
transnational europe II invites researchers, activists, and artists to further explore and discuss the current and the future dynamics emerging from the interplay of European borders and global migration movements. What does - and could - a transnational society look like from such perspective?
 
transnational europe II reflects and elaborates on the topics presented in the exhibition "Projekt Migration", showing at the Kölnischer Kunstverein and two other locations in Cologne from 30 September 2005 until 15 January 2006.
 
Program
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Thursday, 10.11.2005
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16:30 Exhibition "Projekt Migration"
Guided Tour with Curators
 
18:30 Opening and Welcome
Kathrin Rhomberg, Director of the Kölnischer Kunstverein
 
19:00 Collaborative Imagination
Keynote
GEORGE E. MARCUS, Rice University, Houston; Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
 
20:30     Drinks & Fingerfood, followed by
 
'Blok 70'
Performance with sound activists of ULTRA-RED (USA, Germany, UK) 
 
 
Friday, 11.11.
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9:30 Introductory Notes
REGINA RÖMHILD, TRANSIT  MIGRATION, Frankfurt a.M.
 
10:00 Movements of Migration I
Roundtable
9ÈME COLLECTIF DES SANS-PAPIERS, France; KANAK ATTAK/SOCIETY FOR LEGALISATION, Germany; INDYESTRECHO-MALAGA, Spain; INITIATIVE GROUP OF ASYLMUM SEEKERS, BRANDENBURG, Germany; UNIVERSAL EMBASSY, Belgium; MOGNISS ABDALLAH, AGÉNCE IM'MEDIA, France,  HELENA MALENO, FONTERA SUR, Morocco;
Chair: MANUELA BOJADZIJEV, TRANSIT  MIGRATION, Frankfurt a.M.
 
12:30 Lunch break 
 
14:00 Europe and the Question of Citizenship Keynote SANDRO MEZZADRA, Dept. of Political Sciences, Bologna
 
15:00 Coffee break
 
15:30 Movements of Migration II
Presentations
MAMADOU DIOUF, Dept. of History, University of Michigan; AIHWA ONG, Dept. of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
 
17:30 Coffee break
 
18:00 Citizenship and the global movements of migration Keynote SASKIA SASSEN, Dept. of Sociology, University of Chicago; Sociology Dept., London School of Economics
 
19:00 Drinks & Fingerfood
 
20:30 Europe Next Door
TRANSIT MIGRATION film release in the presence of the director ZELIMIR ZILNIK, Novi Sad; Introduction: Marion von Osten, TRANSIT  MIGRATION, Berlin/Zurich
 
 
Saturday, 12.11.
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09:30 Border Regimes and the Practice of Migration I:
Representation and Intervention
Roundtable/ Presentations/ Filmscreening BRIGITTA KUSTER, Filmmaker, Berlin, & VASSILIS TSIANOS, TRANSIT MIGRATION, Berlin; LEILA KILANI, Filmmaker; NICÓ SGUIGLIA, indyestrecho-malaga, Spain; TOM HOLERT & MARK TERKESSIDIS, Cultural Scientists, Berlin & Cologne; Chair:
MARION VON OSTEN, TRANSIT  MIGRATION, Berlin/ Zurich
 
12:00 Lunch break
 
13:30 Border Regimes and the Practice of Migration II:
Production of Knowledge
Roundtable/ Presentations
TRANSIT MIGRATION Team of Researchers, Berlin/Frankfurt a. M./Oxford; BRIDGET ANDERSON, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford; Discussion Paper: ALEX DEMIROVIC, Department of Social Science, University of Frankfurt a.M.
 
15:30 Coffee break
 
16:00 Border Regimes and the Practice of Migration III:
Control and Mobility
Roundtable/Presentations
RAMONA LENZ, Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, University of Frankfurt a.M.; ALAIN TARRIUS, Centre d'Analyses et d'Interventions Sociologiques (CADIS-CNRS), Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris; RUTVICA ANDRIJASEVIC & MANUELA BOJADZIJEV, TRANSIT  MIGRATION, Oxford/Frankfurt a.M.
 
17:30 Coffee break
 
18:00 Corridor X
Filmproject, Angela Melitopoulos, Filmmaker, Cologne
 
21:00 Dinner & Party with Guests
 
 
Sunday, 13.11.
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11:00 Re-Imagining Migration in Germany
Roundtable
GISELA WELZ, Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, University of Frankfurt a.M.; NANNA HEIDENREICH, Dept. of Media Studies, University of Trier; LEVENT SOYSAL, Department of Radio, Television, and Cinema, Kadir Has University, Istanbul; N.N., Kanak Attak/Society for Legalisation, Germany; LUDGER PRIES, Sociology of Organisations and Participation Studies, Ruhr-University, Bochum; WERNER SCHIFFAUER, Dept. of Social Anthropology, Viadrina University, Frankfurt/Oder; Chair: REGINA RÖMHILD, TRANSIT  MIGRATION, Frankfurt a.M.
 
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Languages spoken will be English and German. Simultaneous translation English-German/ German-English will be provided. Interpreters for French-English/ English-French will be available to individual guests and participants. 
 
Registration
via symposium at transitmigration.org or
c/o Dr. Regina Römhild
Institut für Kulturanthropologie und Europäische Ethnologie Universität Frankfurt Grüneburgplatz 1
D-60323 Frankfurt a.M.
Tel +49 (0)69 798 32313
Fax +49 (0) 69 798 32922
 
Participants registered until October 31, 2005 will be provided with:
* free admission to the symposium
* information reader with abstracts
* reduced rates for meals, invitation to symposium party
* reduced rates for rooms at specific hotels (see www.transitmigration.org)
 
Attention: Due to the limited spatial capacities at Kölnischer Kunstverein, the number of participants will be restricted to 200 persons.
 
Location
Kölnischer Kunstverein, Die Brücke, Hahnenstraße 6, D-50667 Köln,
Tel:  +49 (0)221 8697 647, Fax: +49 (0)221 8697 648, www.projektmigration.de
 
transnational europe II is funded by Kulturstiftung des Bundes and Le Monde Diplomatique.
 
concept
Manuela Bojadzijev, Regina Römhild
organisation
Manuela Bojadzijev, Meike Fechner, Claudia Jericho, Daniela Müller, Marion Ritter, Regina Römhild In co-operation with Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln
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Transnational europe II is initiated by TRANSIT  MIGRATION, a transdisciplinary project researching the dynamics of migration along the borders of the European Union. It uses approaches from ethnography and social sciences, arts and cultural production, politics and media activists and generates its own productions. The results are presented as part of the "Projekt Migration" exhibition shown in the Kölnischer Kunstverein and other locations in Cologne from 30 September 2005 until 15 January 2006.
 
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TRANSIT MIGRATION is part of "Projekt Migration", a project initiated by the Federal Cultural Foundation of Germany (Kulturstiftung des Bundes) in cooperation with the Kölnischer Kunstverein, DOMiT e.V., the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, University of Frankfurt a.M., and the Institute of Theory of Design and Art, ICS/HGK Zurich.
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mail to symposium at transitmigration.org
  

-- Dr. Regina Römhild
TRANSIT MIGRATION/Projekt Migration, Research Director & Co-Curator
Institut für Kulturanthropologie und Europäische Ethnologie Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität
Grüneburgplatz 1
D 60323 Frankfurt

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TRANSIT  MIGRATION
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The Anthropological Journal on European Cultures www.ajec.info

Research Group Transnationalism
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