SEMINARS 2013

TRANS-EUROPEAN POWERS AND THE RE-STRUCTURING OF MAJORITY-MINORITY RELATIONS

Seminar organizer: Hakan G. Sicakkan

DOMINANT PLURALISM: HOW AND WHY DO XENOPHOBIC SOCIAL MOVEMENTS ALLOW ETHNO-PLURALISM?

Acar Kutay (University of Bergen)

Friday 15 February, 14.14-16.00
Uni Rokkan Centre, Nygårdsgaten 5, 6th floor.

THE PUBLICS OF EUROPE AND THE EUROPEAN PUBLIC SPHERE: DO THE EU POLICIES FOR CREATING A COMMON PUBLIC SPHERE HAVE DEMOCRATIC AND INCLUSIVE CONSEQUENCES FOR DIFFERENT DIVERSITY GROUPS?

Hakan G. Sicakkan (University of Bergen)

Friday 8 March, 14.15-16.00
Uni Rokkan Centre, Nygårdsgaten 5, 6th floor.

'DANES AND IMMIGRANTS DON'T REALLY HAVE ANY RELATIONS': IDENTITIES, RELATIONS AND EVERYDAY PRACTICES IN A MIXED RESIDENTIAL AREA IN COPENHAGEN

Tina Gudrun Jensen (The Danish National Centre for Social Research)

(Note day!) Monday 18 March, 14.15-16.00
Uni Rokkan Centre, Nygårdsgaten 5, 6th floor.

MULTIKULTURELLE LIKESTILLINGSDILEMMA

Susanne Bygnes (Universitetet i Bergen)

Fredag 5. april, 14.15-16.00
(Obs sted !) Seminarrom 212, Institutt for Sammenlignende Politikk, Christiesgate 17, 2. etg.

THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS: EXAMINING THE CONNECTION BETWEEN RELIGIOUS IDENTITY AND NATIONAL IDENTITY AND PATTERNS OF POLITICAL ACTION

Lauren McKown (American University)

Friday 12 April, 14.15-16.00
Uni Rokkan Centre, Nygårdsgaten 5, 6th floor.

CHALLENGES OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION -DIVERSITY AND IMMIGRATION IN POLITICAL DISCOURSES OF INTEGRATION

Robert Sata (Central European University)

Friday 26 April, 14.15-16.00
Uni Rokkan Centre, Nygårdsgaten 5, 6th floor.

PEOPLES IN MOVEMENT: POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF MIGRANT RIGHTS MOVEMENTS OF LATIN AMERICAN ORIGIN TO THE EMERGENCE OF COUNTER-HEGEMONIC PARADIGMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS -COMPARATIVE ASPECTS IN THE EURO-AFRICAN AND GLOBAL CONTEXT

Camilo Pérez-Bustillo (Autonomous University of Mexico City (UACM))

Friday 3 May, 14.15-16.00
(Note venue!) Seminar room 1 (404), Faculty of Law, Magnus Lagabøtes plass 1.

MINORITY WOMEN, EUROPEAN INTEGRATION, AND THE EUROPEAN UNION

Lise Rolandsen Agustin (Aalborg University)

Friday 24 May, 14.15-16.00
(Note venue!) Staff Seminar Room, Department of Comparative Politics, Christiesgate 15, 2. Floor.

PREVIOUS SEMINARS

Før og etter 22. juli 2011

22. juli blir ansett som et vendepunkt i norsk historie og politisk liv - både i forhold til terror, etniske relasjoner, innvandring, beredskap, uskyldighet og debattkultur.

IMER vil høsten 2012 drøfte betydningen av 22. juli i lys av ulike fagtradisjoner. Forskere fra sammenlignende politikk, sosialantropologi og sosiologi vil presentere forskning og analyser som belyser dette spørsmålet.
Seminaransvarlig: Mette Andersson

lider det norske folk av en kollektiv realitetsvegring?

Regi T. Enerstvedt (UiO og ISS)

31. august, 13.15-15.00
Uni Rokkansenteret, Nygårdsgaten 5, 6. etg.

Respons på 22. juli

Elisabeth Ivarsflaten (UiB) og Jan Oskar Engene (UiB)

7. september, 13.15-15.00
Uni Rokkansenteret, Nygårdsgaten 5, 6. etg.

Mourning and belonging: The becoming political of irregularized migrants in Norway

Synnøve Bendixsen (IMER Bergen) and Christine M. Jacobsen (IMER Bergen and UiB)

14 September, 13.15-15.00
Uni Rokkansenteret, Nygårdsgaten 5, 6th Floor

22 July: Media, Freedom of Expression and Multiculturalism

Elisabeth Eide (Oslo University College and University of Bergen)

21 September, 13.15-15.00
Uni Rokkansenteret, Nygårdsgaten 5, 6th Floor

anders behring breivik og den anti-islamske bevegelsen

Sveinung Sandberg (UiO) og Lars Erik Berntzen (UiB)

19. oktober, 13.15-15.00
Uni Rokkansenteret, Nygårdsgaten 5, 6. etg.

Provision of Welfare to 'Irregular Migrants'

"Provision of Welfare to 'Irregular Migrants'" (PROVIR) is a reseach project funded by the Norwegian Research Council. In this interdisciplinary project senior researchers and research recruits from law, sociology, social anthropology, and political science collaborate, using methods such as law analysis, ethnographic fieldwork and qualitative interviews.
Seminar organizer: Christine M. Jacobsen

Health Care for Undocumented Migrants discussed from three perspectives: Human rights, Public health, and Economics

Ursula Karl-Trummer (Center for Health and Migration, Vienna)

Wednesday 5 September, 10.15-12.00
Uni Rokkansenteret, Nygårdsgaten 5, 6. etg.

Why Human Rights Fail to Protect Undocumented Migrants

Gregor Noll (Lund University)

Friday 5 October, 13.15-15.00
Faculty of Law, room 546, Magnus Lagabøtes Plass 1 (Note venue!)

Nicholas De Genova (Goldsmiths, University of London)

Friday 14 December, 13.15– 15.00
Uni Rokkansenteret, Nygårdsgaten 5, 6. etg.

Dialectics of Transition: Subjectivity and Structure in African-European Migration

Knut Graw (University of Leuven and Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin)

23 March, 13.15-15.00
Uni Rokkansenteret, Nygårdsgaten 5, 6th Floor

irregular migrants' right to health care in europe: a challenge for the sociology of human rights

Milena Chimienti (City University London)

9 December, 13.15-15.00
Uni Rokkansenteret, Nygårdsgaten 5, 6th Floor

Beyond stigmatisation: Some thoughts on how ethnicity obscures gender, and why an ethnography of cricket is an answer

Thomas M. Walle (Norsk Folkemuseum)

1 December, 13.15-15.00
Seminar room, Department of Social Anthropology, Fosswinckels gate 6, 8th floor

In collaboration with the Department of Social Anthropology, UiB.

dismantling the singular trusting subject: a comparative exploration of trust in guatemala and norway

Margit Ystanes (UiB)

25 November, 13.15-15.00
Uni Rokkansenteret, Nygårdsgaten 5, 6th Floor

Migration, globalization and new social formations

IMER Bergen 15 years anniversary conference and PhD course.

9-11 November
Bergen Resource Centre, Auditorium first floor, Jekteviksbakken 31.
Opening lecture in "Egget", Student Centre, Parkveien 1.

empowering minority youth? a capability approach to anti-racist education

Frederique Brossard Børhaug (NLA)

28 October, 13.15-15.00
Uni Rokkansenteret, Nygårdsgaten 5, 6th Floor

Master seminar

Master students, with fresh dissertations or new projects related to the IMER field are invited to present their research. Would you like to participate? Contact us!

21 October, 13.15-16.00
Uni Rokkansenteret, Nygårdsgaten 5, 6th Floor

migration in nordic societies: recent perspectives

Helle Stenum (Aalborg Universitet)
Anna Gavanas (Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm)
Mariya Bikova (UiB)
Vera Galindabaeva (European University, St. Petersburg)
Ann Elise Widding Isaksen (UiB)
Christine M. Jacobsen (Uni Research/UiB)
Synnøve Bendixsen (Uni Research)

7 October, 09.00-15.30
Faculty of Law, Seminar room 1, Magnus Lagabøtesplass 1.

In collaboration with the Department of Sociology, UiB.

migrants and objects: material practices of being and belonging in transnational social fields

Maja Povrzanović Frykman (Malmö Universitet)

23 September, 13.15-15.00
Uni Rokkansenteret, Nygårdsgaten 5, 6. etg (5th Floor)

Balancing the borders: Irregular migrants as the excommunicated of the Norwegian welfare state

Cecilie Øien (Fafo - Institute for Applied International Studies)

2 September, 13.15-15.00
Uni Rokkansenteret, Nygårdsgaten 5, 6. etg (5th Floor)

Hijab: Krav, plikt eller rettighet? Samtale om muslimske kvinners klesplagg

Sigrun Åsebø (Kunsthistoriker, UiB)
Christine M. Jacobsen (Sosialantropolog, UiB/Uni Rokkansenteret)
Marianne Bøe (Religionsviter, SKOK)
Fatma Suslu (Forfatter i boken Utilslørt: Muslimske råtekster)
Sølva Nabila Saxelin (Hijab-brigaden)

Møteleder: Ellen Mortensen (Litteraturviter, SKOK)

I samarbeid med SKOK og Festspillene.

Tidspunkt: 31. mai, 17.30-19.00
Sted: Logen Bar, Øvre Ole Bulls plass 6

Provisions of Welfare to ‘Irregular Migrants’ (PROVIR)

Karl-Harald Søvig (UiB)
Shahram Khosravi (Stockholm University)
Bridget Anderson (COMPAS)
Henriette Roscam Abbing (Emeritus Professor of health law)
Kirsten Ketscher (University of Copenhagen)
Trine Lund Thomsen (Aalborg University)
Vibeke Erichsen (University of Bergen)
Marit Skivenes (Bergen University College)
Odin Lysaker (University of Oslo)

Kick-off seminar for the research programme PROVIR.
Organised in collaboration with the Faculty of Law, UiB.

Time: 12-13 May 2011.
Venue: Faculty of Law (Dragefjellet, Magnus Lagabøtes plass 1), Auditorium 4.

Contemporary Grammars of Political Action among Ethnic Minority Young Activists

Therese O’Toole (Bristol University)

Time: 29 April 2011, 13.15-15.00
Venue: Uni Rokkansenteret, Nygårdsgaten 5, 6. etg (5th Floor)

Experiencing norway. some highlights of russian-speaking au pairs' Migrant Narratives

Olga Tkach (Centre for Independent Social Research, St Petersburg)

Time: 13 April 2011, 12.15-14.00
Venue: Uni Rokkansenteret, Nygårdsgaten 5, 6. etg (5th Floor)

The seminar is oraganized in collaboration with the research project Prostitution, Gender and Migration (Progemi).

'I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE NOTION OF DIVERSITY'. ANALYZING SOCIAL
MOVEMENT LEADERS' OPINIONS ON MULTIPLE EQUALITY CLAIMS

Susanne Bygnes (UiB)

Time: 11 March 2011, 13.15-15.00
Venue: Uni Rokkansenteret, Nygårdsgaten 5, 6. etg (5th Floor)

Cosmopolitanism and the colonial disease: Stories and belonging in Parisian slam poetry

Cicilie Fagerlid (UiO)

Time: 25 February 2011, 13.15-15.00
Venue: Uni Rokkansenteret, Nygårdsgaten 5, 6. etg (5th Floor)

global political economy, welfare state reforms and the governance of religion

Tuomas Martikainen (Åbo Akademi, Finland)

Time: 11 February 2011, 13.15-15.00
Venue: Uni Rokkansenteret, Nygårdsgaten 5, 6. etg (5th Floor)

Religious traditions and muslim youth in europe

Christine M. Jacobsen (UiB/Uni Rokkansenteret)
Jonas Otterbeck (Lund University)
Synnøve Bendixsen (SKOK/Uni Rokkansenteret)

Seminar and book launch.
Organised in collaboration with Department of Social Anthropology, UiB.

Time: 21 January 2011, 13.15-16.00
Venue: Uni Rokkansenteret, Nygårdsgaten 5, 6. etg (5th Floor)

JOHN OLAV EGELAND AND RANDI GRESSGÅRD

Multikulturalisme - endringer i den norske samfunnskontrakten?

Time: 5. November at 13.15

Venue: Uni Rokkansenteret, Nygårdsgaten 5, 6. etg (5th Floor)

RANDI GRESSGÅRD

Booklaunch - Multicultural Dialogue. Dilemmas, Paradoxes, Conflicts

Time: 22. October 12.15 - 16 pm

Venue: Det Akademiske Kvarter, Teglverket

RAFAL SMOCZYNSKI

Anti-migrants: Moral Panic and Hegemonic Decision Making

Time: 17. September at 13.15

Venue: Uni Rokkansenteret, Nygårdsgaten 5, 6. etg (5th Floor)

FRØY GUDBRANDSEN

Partisan Influence on Immigration: The Case of Norway.

Tme: Friday 20. August at 13.15

Venue: Uni Rokkansenteret, Nygårdsgaten 5, 6. etg (5th Floor)

yasemin soysal

Cosmopolitization of the Nation and Citizen: European Dilemmas

Tid: Fredag 28. mai, 2010. Kl 13.15

Sted: Bergen Resourcecentre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31. See map

Gaudenica Mutema

Slavery, Resistance and the Legacy of Wanankhucha: Adaptation and the Construction of Somali Bantu Identities in the United States

Time: Friday 21 May, 2010. Kl 13.15

Venue: Bergen Resourcecentre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31. See map

Hanna skartveit

Migrants of consciousness: Diaspora and personal transformation in modern Kabbalism

Tid: Fredag 09. april, 2010. Kl 13.15

Sted: Bergen Resourcecentre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31. See map

christine jacobsen and mette andersson

Gaza in Oslo. Social imaginaries in the political engagement of Norwegian minority youth

Time: Friday 26 March, 2010. Kl 13.15

Venue: Bergen Resourcecentre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31. See map

helga eggebø

Kva er eit reelt ekteskap? Regulering av ekteskapsinnvandring til Norge

Tid: Fredag 19. februar, 2010. Kl 13.15

Sted: Bergen Resourcecentre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31. See map

SHARAM ALGHASI

Norsk-iranere, mediebruk og kampen om identitet og posisjon

Tid: Fredag 22. januar, 2010. Kl 13.15

Sted: Bergen Resourcecentre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31. See map

SINDRE BANGSTAD - RANDI GRASSGÅRD- CHRISTINE JACOBSEN MØTELEDER: ANNE-SOFIE ROALD

Sekularismens ansikter i globalt perspektiv og statsfeminismens lokale fordringer

Time :
Torsdag 10.12.2009 , 10.00

 Place : Bergen Resourcecentre for international development, Jekteviksbakken 31. See map

Demokrati og Rettstat

Medborgerskap/ Citizenship

Time :
Friday 20.11 2009 , 12.15-14.00

 Place : Bergen Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31, Auditorium, Ground floor.See map

ROGER HEWITT AND CAROLINE KNOWLES

"Migration and Language in the Workplace: Some Multicultural Contradictions"

Time :
8 september 2009, 14.15 - 16.00

 Place : Sosiologisk institutt, Rosenbergsgaten 39, 1. etasje.

PROF. DANIEL HIEBERT

"Ethical Perspectives on migration and how they help us understand Canadian immigration policy?"

Time : 8 September 2009
12.15 -14.00

 Place : Dragefjellet, Auditorium 3, UiB

WORKSHOP

"The Crystallisation of National Identities in Contemporary Europe"

Time : 17-19 Sept. Day one: 13.00-16.00. On day two and three the workshop will commence at 10.00  Place : Seminar room 327, Herman Fossgt. 6 , UiB

EYAL BEN-ARI

"Human Rights" and "Precision Warfare":
Casualties, the Israeli Military and Global Discourses in the Al-Aqsa Intifada

Time : Friday 23 may 14.15 – 16.00                  .
Place : Seminarroom, 9th floor, Lauritz Meltzers Hus (Fosswinckelsgt 6, Bergen)

ELISABETH IVARSFLATEN

”The politics of immigration in Western Europe 1985-2006”

Time : Thursday 24 april 14.15 – 16.00                  .
Place : Stein Rokkans Hus, Unifob Global, 5th floor, Seminarroom

ANETTE HAABER IHLE

”Makt, medborgerskap og muslimske friskoler i Danmark”

Tid : Mandag 7 april 14.15 – 16.00.
Sted : Seminarrommet, Unifob Global, (Stein Rokkans Hus, 5 etasje)

Workshop

"Transnational(ism)" in IMER-research - Networks, boundaries and mobilisation -

Time: Monday 17th December 2007, 09.00 -17.00
Place:UiB, Lauritz Meltzers hus, 9 th floor, Seminarroom

PROF. ODED STARK

”The Economics of Social Space and the Logic of Subdued Assimilation”

Time : Friday 7th December 2007, 2:15 p.m.
Place : UiB, Lauritz Meltzers hus, 9th Floor, Seminarroom

URMILA GOEL

”The Indernet. An own space in a racist society”

Time : Tuesday 19th June 2007, 14.00-16.00
Place : Stein Rokkans Hus, Unifob Global, 5th floor, Seminarroom

PROF. BEVERLEY SKEGGS

”New Moral Economies on Reality TV”

Time : Monday 4th June 2007, 12.00-14.00
Place : Stein Rokkans Hus, Unifob Global, 5th floor, Seminarroom

MAY-LEN SKILBREI

”Eastern European sex workers opposing discourse”

Time : Friday 29th April 2007, 14.00-16.00
Place : Stein Rokkans Hus, Unifob Global, 5th floor, Seminarroom

DIANE OATLEY

“Divinity quivers boldly in debasement: the ambiguous potency of Oriental Dance”

Time : Wednesday 28th March 2007, 16.00-18.00
Place : Stein Rokkans Hus, Unifob Global, 5th floor, Seminarroom

JONATHON MOSES

"International Migration: Globalization's Last Frontier "

Time : Wednesday, 28th February 2007, 16.00-18.00
Place : Stein Rokkans Hus, Unifob Global, 5th floor, Seminarroom