18-19 November 2024, University of Ghent and online

Bridging divides in gender migration studies. Enhancing North-South cooperation for inclusive knowledge

Bridging divides in gender migration studies: enhancing North-South cooperation for inclusive knowledge production

We warmly welcome you all to the hybrid event ‘Bridging divides in gender migration studies. Enhancing North-South cooperation for inclusive knowledge’ on November 18-19.

Programme (all times in ECT)

DAY 1
9.30 Welcome & breakfast

9.50 Welcome and introduction by dr. Floor Verhaeghe and Marwa Neji

10.00 Wael Garnaoui (University of Sousse, Tunisia): Production du savoir sur la migration en Tunisia: une praxis décoloniale. Note: this talk will be delivered in French, discussions and Q&A will be in French & English.

11.00 Khaoula Stiti: Neoliberal Shame, Coloniality, and Migrant Resistance in Belgian Francophone Academia. Q & A and discussion

11.40 Lunch break

12.40 Wael Garnaoui: Visa policies and Trauma of im/mobilities. Note: this talk will be delivered in French, discussions and Q&A will be in French & English.

14.40 break

14.50 Rosella Marino (Ghent University): From decentring to decolonising and back: a feminist look at White ethnographic research on migration management in West Africa

 15.20 Marwa Neji (Ghent University): Decolonizing migration studies: Mobility studies facing the rise of nationalism in Europe—An epistemological conceptualization.

15.50 Q&A and discussion

DAY 2

10.00 Giacomo Orsini (Ghent University): The inescapable borders of knowledge (re)production in “migration studies”. Critical reflections on de/colonizing research. 

10.40 Ine Lietaert (UNU- CRIS): Souths, Easts or beyond; tensions in using the decolonality framework in different localities.

11.10 Q&A session and closure
12.00 End

This is a joint initiative of the GenSem standing committee of IMISCOE, the ITN DERM, CESSMIR and the Department of Conflict and Development Studies. You can join live in Ghent or online.  Please find all info and the registration link Event Registration (ugent.be)