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Can’t Join Us in Person? Follow Our Live-Stream on YouTube!: 2nd Migration Studies Symposium at The Ohio State University on March 2nd (9.45am-5pm)

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We invite you to join us for OSU’s 2nd Migration Studies Symposium on March 2nd (9:45-5pm), organized by the Migration Studies Working Group. We are finalizing our preparations and hope to see many of you there. This interdisciplinary event brings together scholars and community organizations working on migration-related issues and with migrant communities.
 
The symposium will be held at Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, Eisner Seminar Room, 1813 N High St, Columbus, OH 43210, and our event includes a tour of the current exhibition on political cartoons about immigration.
 
NEWS: If you cannot join us in person, follow our live-stream of the symposium on YouTube!
 
This event is free and open to all. To RSVP please clickhere: https://osu.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e3fx50dzpmTlPRX
 
The Migration Studies Working Group is a graduate student-led and founded organization open to all which aims to create an inspiring and productive interdisciplinary environment for a range of migration studies scholarship at The Ohio State University.
 
Please find the program attached, and feel free to forward this invitation to your colleagues, students and friends. We look forward to seeing you there.
 
 
Kindly,
Carolin, Eleanor, Natalie, Erik and Johanna

@osu_mswg

March 2nd: Second Migration Studies Symposium

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Dear everyone,

We invite you to join us for the 2nd Migration Studies Symposium at The Ohio State University on March 2nd (9.45am-5pm), organized by The Migration Studies Working Group. This interdisciplinary event brings together scholars and community organizations working on migration-related issues and with migrant communities.

The symposium will be held at Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, Eisner Seminar Room, 1813 N High St, Columbus, OH 43210, and our event includes a tour of the current exhibition on political cartoons about immigration.

This event is free and open to all.

 

See the program here: flyer announcement symposium 2018-24apqyc

To RSVP please click here: https://osu.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e3fx50dzpmTlPRX

 

The Migration Studies Working Group is a graduate student-led and founded organization which aims to create an inspiring and productive interdisciplinary environment for a range of migration studies scholarship at The Ohio State University.

Please find the program attached. Also, please forward this invitation to your colleagues, students and friends.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Kindly,

Carolin, Eleanor, Natalie, Erik and Johanna

https://u.osu.edu/mswg/
@osu_mswg

 

EXTENDED DEADLINE: 2nd Annual OSU Migration Studies Symposium “WALLS AND PASSAGES”

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The Migration Studies Working Group invites OSU graduate students and faculty, as well as Columbus-based community organizations and teachers, to send a proposal for a paper, or for a roundtable or interactive workshop, for our second annual Migration Studies Symposium, a full day event on Friday, March 2, 2018. Interventions may directly or indirectly connect to the theme “Walls and Passages”; we are interested in a variety of interpretations of and responses to this phrase. This interdisciplinary symposium will offer a forum for sharing and discussing a range of current work connected with migration experiences and migration studies. In curating this event, we welcome opportunities to collaborate and are especially interested in creating space for conversations that bridge community building, advocacy, teaching, and scholarly work.

Please send your 150-word proposal to migrationstudiesworkinggroup@gmail.com by Jan. 15, 2018.

If you would like to volunteer for this event, please get in touch with us at the above email address.

“…there is as much difference between a border, both boundary and passage, and a wall, synonymous with reciprocal enclosure, as between alterity and identity.” – Michel Agier (Borderlands, 2016)

Call for Presenters: 2nd Annual OSU Migration Studies Symposium “WALLS AND PASSAGES”

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The Migration Studies Working Group invites OSU graduate students and faculty, as well as Columbus-based community organizations and teachers, to send a proposal for a paper, or for a roundtable or interactive workshop, for our second annual Migration Studies Symposium, a full day event on Friday, March 2, 2018. Interventions may directly or indirectly connect to the theme “Walls and Passages”; we are interested in a variety of interpretations of and responses to this phrase. This interdisciplinary symposium will offer a forum for sharing and discussing a range of current work connected with migration experiences and migration studies. In curating this event, we welcome opportunities to collaborate and are especially interested in creating space for conversations that bridge community building, advocacy, teaching, and scholarly work.

Please send your 150-word proposal to migrationstudiesworkinggroup@gmail.com by Dec. 31, 2017.

If you would like to volunteer for this event, please get in touch with us at the above email address.

“…there is as much difference between a border, both boundary and passage, and a wall, synonymous with reciprocal enclosure, as between alterity and identity.” – Michel Agier (Borderlands, 2016)