Behrouz Boochani is an award-winning Kurdish-Iranian writer, journalist, scholar, cultural advocate, and filmmaker. He currently serves as an Associate Professor in Social Sciences at UNSW and is a non-resident Visiting Scholar at the Sydney Asia Pacific Migration Centre (SAPMiC) at the University of Sydney. Boochani is an Honorary Member of PEN International and has received numerous awards for his contributions to journalism, including the Amnesty International Australia 2017 Media Award, the Diaspora Symposium Social Justice Award, and the Anna Politkovskaya Award.
Deniz Yükseker is a professor of sociology at the Izmir University of Economics. She has conducted research and published extensively on Syrian refugees, African migrants, forced internal displacement of Kurds, and circular migration of shuttle traders in Turkey.
The 2022 conference Camps, (In)justices, and Solidarity in the Americas at the University of Graz (Austria) made it apparent that there is an urge to continue the discussions on human rights and detentions in the Americas and beyond. Hence, it is the aim of this second conference to investigate and critically discuss matters of camps, carceral imaginaries, and other enclosures within an academic setting. The Center for Inter-American Studies (C.IAS) of the University of Graz will hold again this conference together with the Department of English at the University of Puerto Rico’s Río Piedras Campus from May 30th to June 2nd at the University of Graz.
23.05-24.05.2024 International Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISL), in Oñati, Basque Country
The workshop is orgnized by Gustvo de la Orden Bosch. PhD Candidate Mirco Buoso will participate.
Project Leader Bilgin Ayata and Postdoctoral Researchers Laura Jung and Chiara Pagano, as members of the Cluster "Migration, Borders, and Mobilities in, around, and across Europe," co-organized a transdisciplinary lecture series featuring a distinguished group of scholars, journalists, and activists working on critical aspects of contemporary dimensions of the European border regime. The lecture series took place between April and June 2023.
Chiara Pagano traveled to Tunis to present the special issue "Libye(s) en devenir" she co-edited with Dr. Chiara Loschi on May 25th, 2023.
The Elastic Borders project team organized a panel discussion during the Law Faculty Day of the University of Graz, on May 5th, 2023, titled "Borders Beyond Law: The EU’s Elastic Borders.” Bilgin Ayata, Laura Jung, and Chiara Pagano all presented their research during this panel.