The event is hosted by Tallinn University. Leading academics, as well as early-career and doctoral researchers will come together for a three-day event.
All times are UTC +3, EEST.
Programme
August 10: Training for Publishing Workshop
9:00 – 10:00 Should I Write a Book?
Russell King and Farid Miah, University of Sussex
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:30 Refereeing for academic journals
Laura Morosanu & Russell King, University of Sussex
11:30 – 12:30 Dos and don’ts in academic English
Jenny Money, University of Sussex
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:30 Paper presentations, 1st session
30 mins for each paper consisting of 15mins presentation + 5min feedback from a senior academic+ 5min feedback form another presenter + 5 min for comments/questions from the audience
Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Prejudices as Political Remittances of Transnational Burmese Bamar Refugee Returnees
Jae Hyun Park, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
Female Javanese domestic workers’ home-(un)making and belonging as part of the transnational migration process between Indonesia and Taiwan
Chu Chun Yu, Sussex Centre for Migration Research, University of Sussex
Title to be confirmed
Daina Grosa, University of Sussex
15:30-16:00 Afternoon Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 Paper presentations, 2nd session
Active Citizenship in space: Shaping Lasnamäe as a site & scale for citizenship practices
Nawal Shaharyar, Tallinn University
Forever migrants? How Russian language media in Estonia reconstitutes our understanding of citizenship
Ivan Polynin, Tallinn University
Title to be confirmed
Gerly Elbrecht, Tallinn University
August 11: State of the Art & Beyond (Research Seminar & Guest Lectures)
10:00- 11:30 MIRNet Research Seminar #5
Multi-scalar ethnography: mobility & world making
Biao Xiang, Professor of Social Anthropology, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
11:30-12:00 Coffee Break
12:00-13:30 Summer School Seminar 1
Towards an intersectional approach to populism: comparative perspectives from Finland and India
Élise Féron, Senior Research Fellow, Tampere Peace Research Institute (TAPRI), Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University
13:30-14:30 Lunch Break
14:30- 15:30 Summer School Seminar 2
No longer on the periphery? Understanding contemporary highly-skilled immigration flows to the Baltic region
Nilay Kilinç, Postdoctoral Researcher, Helsinki Institute of Urban and Regional Studies, University of Helsinki
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:00 Summer School Seminar 3
The role of FBOs in supporting migrants during Covid-19
Roberta Riccucci, Associate Professor, Sociology of Islam & Sociology of Interethnic relations, University of Turin
August 12: Opinion Festival at Paide, Estonia.
- The MIRNet team will host the Migration Stage with several panel talks on the current issues of migration and integration
- 12:00-13:30 Panel on migration turn (in Estonian). Moderator: Prof. Leif Kalev, Tallinn University
- 14:00-15:30 Panel about citizenship (in Estonian). Moderator: Prof. Leif Kalev, Tallinn University
- 16:00-17:30 “Are migration crises the new normal in Europe?” (in English). Moderator: Ass.Prof. Mari-Liis Jakobson, Tallinn University
- 18:00-19:30 Panel on finno-ugric identity in the context of the current geopolitical situation in cooperation with NGO Fenno-Ugria (in Estonian). Moderator: Ass.Prof. Barbi Pilvre
- For more information on the annual Opinion Festival, Estonia’s largest democracy festival, visit https://arvamusfestival/en
- The MIRNet team will host the Migration Stage with several panel talks on the current issues of migration and integration
Apply to the MIRNet Summer School
The MIRNet team is offering opportunities for free participation, including coffee breaks and lunch on August 10 and 11 Additionally, travel on day 3 Tallinn-Paide-Tallinn is covered for accepted participants.
Apply before July 30th by filling out the form at https://forms.gle/FA65SWuXBwgv9jor6
The number of spots is limited!
Selected participants will be confirmed by August 2nd.
–Last changed on July 1st —