The 'Budapest part' of the conference is open to all but please register by completing this form until Friday, June 8, 2018.
The main theme of the international conference jointly organized by the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) at Central European University and the Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) and supported by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation is a hardly explored connection between the state of waiting and the dynamics of migration and movement. The conference sees itself as an interdisciplinary and a transnational event in motion. The former implies that the conference brings together participants who will approach and discuss the connection between waiting and migration from a number disciplines such as history (cultural history), arts, sociology, visual studies, law, and anthropology. The latter, in turn, implies that the conference will be held in two localities directly associated with the recent manifestations of migration and waiting – Budapest and Munich. In doing so, location-specific perspectives should be taken and be classified into an overarching global and historical perspective.
The conference will bring together historians, sociologists, legal studies scholars, and artists from the two organising institutions as well as external participants to reflect on the historical situation of the summer of 2015 which physically and politically linked the two cities - Budapest and Munich - to reflect how the historical situation has changed the very places, and to think ahead of how „being stuck in migration“ affects the very people considered to be on the move. In Budapest, the Keleti Station became a symbol of forced migration, civil engagement support, and political opposition at once. At IAS CEU, on June 13 the conference will, therefore, focus on historical and political dimensions of this historical episode in particular and of migration in Europe and beyond at large. At CAS LMU, on June 15, the focus will be primarily on sociological, demographical, anthropological and cultural reflection on the crisis as well as on conceptual developments in migration scholarship.
The topics to be discussed in both locations include:
- Migration history as a history of waiting: a global perspective
- Artistic and literary reflections on waiting on the horizon of migration and movement
- Migration and regional and global demographic challenges
- Invisible and visible traces of waiting in the arrival cities of migration: anthropological perspectives
- Sociology of forced waiting and border regimes
- Architectures of waiting and urban landscapes of flight
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
JUNE 13, BUDAPEST
Nádor 15, Room 101 (Quantum)
9:00 Welcome address
Prof. Dr. Nadia Al-Bagdadi, director of the IAS CEU
Prof. Dr. Michael Ignatieff, Rector and President
Prof. Dr. Ursula Prutsch, Associate Professor of American Cultural History, LMU
Prof. Dr. Burcu Dogramaci, LMU
9.30-11.00 Panel I: Flight and Waiting: Connecting History and the Present
Panel chair: Prof. Dr. Ursula Prutsch, Institute of American Cultural History, LMU
Dr. William O’Reilly, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
Hopeful Journeys. Resting Places in the History of European Migration
Prof. Dr. Christopher Balme, Chair of Theatre studies, LMU
Hiketeia: Hospitality and Asylum in Ancient Drama and Modern Theatre
11.30-13.00 Panel II (part 1): Failed Flight and Forced Waiting in the 20th Century
Panel chair: Prof. Dr. Burcu Dogramaci, Institute of Art History, LMU
Prof. Dr. Philipp Ther, the Institute for East European History, University of Vienna
Cases of Failed Flight in 20th Century European History
Prof. Dr. Ursula Prutsch, Associate Professor of American cultural history, LMU
Forced Waiting: Internment Camps in the Americas in World War II
14.00-15.30 Panel II (part 2): Failed Flight and Forced Waiting in the 20th Century
Panel chair: Prof. Dr. Christoph Neumann, Chair in Turkish Studies, LMU
PD Dr. Andrea Strutz, Institute of History, University of Graz
Expulsion, Deportation and Internment: Jewish Refugees in Canada
17:00 Local perspective - Blinken OSA Archives: Csaba Szilagyi, Head of Human Rights Program, "Hungary and its Refugee Narratives in the Historical Records of Blinken OSA"
JUNE 14, 2018
Travelling, Budapest-Munich (only for conference speakers)
JUNE 15, MUNICH
Seestraße 13, CAS LMU Conference room
9:15 Welcome address
Dr. Annette Meyer, Managin Director of the CAS LMU
Prof. Dr. Nadia Al-Bagdadi, Director of the IAS CEU
9.30-11.00 Panel III: Between Migration and Immobilisation: Sociological Aspects
Panel chair: Prof. Dr. Nadia Al-Bagdadi
Prof. Dr. Ayse Caglar, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Vienna
In the shadow of “Mobilty”: Conceptual impediments of migration scholarship
Dr. Attila Melegh, Department of Sociology and Social Sciences,Corvinus University
Long-Term Historical Dynamics of Migration and Demographic Challenges in South Eastern Europe from a Global Perspective
11.30-13.00 Panel IV: The Space of Waiting Zones
Panel chair: Dr. Attila Melegh, Department of Sociology and Social Sciences, Corvinus UNiversity
Prof. Dr.Alain Musset, Centre de recherches historiques, Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales E.H.E.S.S
From Waiting Places to Waiting Territories. Waiting Understood as a State of Mobility.
Prof. Dr. Burcu Dogramaci, Professor of Art History, LMU
Architectures of Waiting and the Temporality of Flight
14.00-15.00 Panel V: Cultures of the In-Between
Panel chair: Dr. William O'Reilly, Department of History, University of Cambridge
Prof. Dr. Christoph K. Neumann, Institute for the Near and Middle East, LMU
Istanbul as an In-Between: Perceptions by Refugees De-Stabilizing Orientalism
Dr. Didem Pekün, IAS CEU fellow
Between Movement and Stasis: Aesthetics and Politics of Migrant Itineraries in Contemporary Essay Filmmaking
16:30 Local Perspective - Munich Main Station: Simon Goeke, Stadtmuseum München: "Crossing Munich. Places, Images, Debates of Migration. A Guided Tour through Munich".