19th IMISCOE Annual Conference Opening Plenary: The Temporal Turn in Migration Studies

29 June – 1 July 2022

Join us in Oslo – or online – for the 19th annual IMISCOE conference (29 June – 1 July 2022)! 

We are delighted to confirm the opening plenary topic and speakers, kicking off three days of panels, workshops, and more! You can submit your panel, workshop, and paper proposals until 10 January 2022 (23:59 CET).

The opening plenary will be on ‘The temporal turn in migration studies’. It will start the conversation on the conference theme, ' Migration and time: Temporalities of mobility, governance and resistance. It does so, facilitated by a carefully selected panel of four distinguished speakers, who have been invited to share their reflections on what an analytical focus on time brings to the field of migration studies. 

Speakers 

Melanie Griffiths

Senior Research Associate & ESRC Future Research Leader (2014-2018), University of Birmingham

Liz Mavroudi 

Reader in Human Geography, Loughborough University

Jakub Bijak  

Joint Head of Social Statistics and Demography, Professor of Statistical Demography, University of Southampton

Brenda Yeoh

Raffles Professor of Social Sciences, Department of Geography & Research Leader of the Asian Migration Cluster at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

Chair

Jørgen Carling   

Research Professor & Co-Director PRIO Migration Centre, Peace Research Institute Oslo

 

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