Deadline-1 September 2013
International PhD conference is being organized which will be conducted in Blindern Campus, Lucy Smiths hus, Rådsalen from Nov 7, 2013 to Nov 8, 2013. Conference is organized by Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages and Department of Archeology, Conservation and History. Topics to be discussed-
What is imagined as Europe and who is European?
- How does “intra-European” migration influence the way we look at the questions raised by immigration?
- How do “European” immigrants experience their status in relation to their lands of origin and their host countries?
- How do “European” immigrants experience their status in relation to other migrants and the majority groups?
- What role does “Europeanness” play in relation to questions regarding the integration of migrants, discrimination and “othering”?
The conference will choose case studies and papers that reflect on issues raised by these migrants’ presence in the host societies, primarily issues concerning who is regarded as European and non-European, and in which contexts. Europe, being a discursive construction and not only a geographical term (although not having clear-cut geographical borders), can include and exclude different geographic areas depending on one´s point of view. It can be imagined as narrowly as including only European Union states (and even those judged as differently “European”), or as widely as including the Russian Federation, Turkey, the Caucausus, etc.
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