Conference Program
Thursday (December 14, 2017) 12:00-6:15pm
12:00 pm Arrival & Registration
1:00-1.30 pm Opening
1:30-3:00 pm Panel 1: (De)ethnizations in Transnational Settings
Latif Tas (SOAS, University of London): “Transnational (De)ethnization, Gender and Justice: The Case of Local Justice amongst Kurds”
Carolin Fischer & Joëlle Moret (University of Neuchâtel): “Approaching Ethnoheterogenesis through a Transnational Lens: Transnational Social Positionings of Second-generation Migrants in Switzerland”
Christine Barwick (Centre Marc Bloch Berlin): “From Migrants to Europeans: A Review and Research Agenda of New Forms of Mobility among Second-generation Migrants”
3:00-3:30 pm Coffee Break
3:30-4:30 pm Public Lecture/ Keynote
Nadje Al-Ali, Professor, Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS:
“Queering Ethnoheterogenesis in Transnational Perspective: (De)ethnicising Muslim Migrants”
4:45-6:15 pm Panel 2: Shifting Inequalities and Ethnic Change
Salvador Rangel (University of California, Santa Barbara): “Racialized Class Relations, Citizenship and Migrant Illegality”
Merlin Schaeffer (University of Cologne): “Unfulfilled Status Aspirations and Perceived Discrimination. Why Ethnic Boundaries Increase in Perceptual Salience as They Factually Dissolve”
Wolfgang Gabbert (Leibniz Universität Hannover): “Ethnicity, Class and the State – Social Change, Legal Reforms and Indigenous Movements in Latin America”
7:00 pm Conference Dinner
Friday (December 15, 2017) 10:00 am-5:30 pm
10:00-12.00 am Panel 3: The Politics of Ethnoheterogenesis
Anna-Lena Kökgiran (Leibniz Universität Hannover): “Ethnic Framing as a Cipher of Multidimensional Struggles of Agency”
Nils Witte (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology): “Responses to Stigmatization and Boundary Making - Destigmatization Strategies of Turks in Germany”
Annette Schnabel (Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf): “Religion, Social Cohesion and the National – How Schemes of Inclusion are Tied Together”
Menja Holtz (Hanover): "Indigenous versus Newcomer History: From the Moravian Fairfield Mission, 1792-1902, to the Lunaapeew Culture Revival in the 21st Century"
12:00-1:00 pm Lunch Break
1:00-2:30 pm Panel 4: The Societal Production of Membership
Oktay Aktan (University of Potsdam): “Grasping of the Ethnic Identity Gap via Social Reconstructions Based on Ethnoheterogenesis”
Jamella Gow (University of California, Santa Barbara): “Defining Diaspora, Refining Nationalism: Nation-Making and Constructing Diaspora on the Margins”
Oliver Tewes (Technische Universität Berlin): “Ethnoheterogenesis in the Social Space: Membership of Second-generation Turkish Descendants in Berlin”
2:30-3:00 pm Coffee Break
3:00-4:00 pm Public Lecture/ Keynote
Thomas D. Hall, Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology&History, DePauw University:
“Ethnoheterogenesis: Insights, Questions, and Speculations from an Ancient World-Systems Perspective.”
4:00-4:45 pm Outlook & Perspective
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