Mobilities and Transnational Iceland, is a three-year project of excellence that aims to bring together researchers studying recent changes in Iceland from the perspective on mobility and transnational connections. The project has been funded by Rannís, the Icelandic Centre for Research. It is located at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at the University of Iceland, but involves academic and non-academic partners in Iceland and abroad. Sin
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Exploring possibilities for more-than-rational and inter-subjective care in international migration
Open lecture by Sergei Shubin, Professor of Human Geography, Swansea University, UK Friday, 5.October, 2018; 8:50-9:50; University of Iceland, Árnagarður-201 About the lecture: This lecture explores care in the context of recent international
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Transnational Families Research: the Romanian case
Open lecture by Viorela Ducu, Associate Researcher at the Centre of Population Studies, Babes-Bolyai, Romania. Thursday, 4.October, 2018; 12:00-13:00; University of Iceland, Oddi-206 Abstract: In the first part of the presentation, I will make
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Call for papers: Transnational families and care
A joint seminar of the University of Iceland and Swansea University (UK) organized by the project Mobilities & Transnational Iceland
Reykjavik, 4-5 October, 2018
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Contemporary mobilities have shaped family lives, which often
Mobilities sessions on Þjóðarspegillinn
Mobilities and Transnational Iceland was present at Þjóðarspegillinn, an annual conference at the School of Social Sciences, University of Iceland. The Mobilities and Transnational Iceland consisted of 15 presentations organized in four session
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The New International Division of Cultural Labor and the Cognitariat?
Open lecture by Toby Miller, Research Professor in Media and Culture Studies of the Graduate Division at the University of California, Riverside. 29.09.2017, 12:00-13:00, Þjóðminjasafn Íslands (National Museum of Iceland) Sacramento, the
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