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24.11.2016
Conference

Normative (B)Orders. Migration and Citizenship in a Time of Crisis

9th International Annual Conference

Schedule

Thursday, November 24th, 2016

2:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m., Ground floor Room 01+02

Opening of the Annual Conference 2016

Opening Address
Prof. Dr. Klaus Günther & Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst (Directors of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”)

2:15 p.m. – 4:15 p.m., Ground floor Room 01+02

Panel I – The Politics of Migration: Problems, Principles and Policies

Chairs: Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst & Prof. Dr. Klaus Günther (Directors of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”)

Prof. Dr. Steffen Mau (Humboldt University of Berlin) & Prof. Dr. Jens Steffek (TU Darmstadt):
Exploring the Global Mobility Divide: the Case of Visa Waiver Policies

Dr. Eszter Kollár (Goethe University):
Fairness in Labour Migration. A Radical Liberal Egalitarian Proposal

Prof. Dr. Lea Ypi (London School of Economics):
Realism on Migration

4:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m., Ground floor Lobby

Coffee and Cake

5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m., Ground floor Room 01+02

Keynote Address
Bordering Migration: Legal Cartographies of Membership and Mobility
Prof. Dr. Ayelet Shachar
(Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen)

Friday, November 25th, 2016

10:00 a.m. – 12:00 a.m., Ground floor Room 01+02

Panel II – The Institutional, Legal and Normative Challenges of Europe’s Contemporary Migration Crisis

Chair: Prof. Dr. Gunther Hellmann (Goethe University)

Prof. Dr. Rainer Hofmann (Goethe University):
Current Challenges to International Refugee Law

Prof. Dr. Christopher Daase & Prof. Dr. Nicole Deitelhoff (Goethe University):
The European Union and Refugees: Crisis Without Borders

Nele Kortendiek (TU Darmstadt):
Global Migration Governance at the European External Border – The Case of Chios

12:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m., Room 5.01 and Lounge

Lunch snack

1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m., Ground floor Room 01+02

Panel III – Discourses on Migration and Citizenship in a Globalized World

Chair: Prof. Dr. Susanne Schröter (Goethe University)

Prof. Dr. Leo Lucassen (Leiden University):
Migration and the Formation of Normative Orders in Western Europe: from the Rushdie Affair to the ‘Refugee Crisis’

Prof. Dr. Mamadou Diawara (Goethe University):
“Lose your Passport!” Migration and Citizenship in a so-called Globalized World

Dr. Dominik M. Müller (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle):
Economies of Attention and Selective Empathy in Times of Multiple Refugee Crises: The Case of Rohingya in Southeast Asia

3:00 p.m. End of the Annual Conference 2016

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