Open lectures – Mobilities and Transnational Iceland

Category: Open lectures

Migrant workers in Iceland: Cheap labour, economic saviours, or allies in the fight against exploitation?

As part of Þjóðarspegillinn, the annual conference at School of Social Sciences that takes place on November, 1st, Mobilities and Transnational Iceland organizes a keynote lecture by Hein de Haas that would be followed by the panel discussion. Unnur Dís Read More ->

Romani Nostalgia. Memory and Transnational Mobility among Bosnian Roma in Rome

Open lecture by Marco Solimene February 13, 2019, 12:00-13:00, Askja N-130 In this presentation I explore nostalgic imageries and memories that Bosnian Roma families address to their land of origin, Bosnia. Such imageries and memories are framed within both the Read More ->

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 migration of Eastern Europeans to Scotland. It Read More ->

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 a quick review of the general Read More ->

The English Language Today: What? Where? Why? How? How much?

Open lecture by Michał Paradowski. 12.06.2018 English has now established itself as a language learnt predominantly for interaction with other non-native users. The talk will commence with a presentation of the areas of daily life where the language has become Read More ->

Resisting Hierarchies of Personhood: Functioning Citizenship and the Rights to Place and Purpose

Open lecture by Lindsley Kingston. 4.4.2018, 12:00-13:00, Oddi-206 About the lecture The presentation critically considers how inequalities related to citizenship and recognition impact one’s ability to claim so-called “universal” and “inalienable” rights. Today, citizenship itself serves to recognize an individual Read More ->

Icelandic Migration and the Suppression of Indigenous Resistance in the Canadian North West, 1885.

Open lecture by Laurie Bertman. 5.03.2018, 12:00-13:00, Gimli-102 Approximately sixty Icelanders enlisted to oppose Indigenous Canadian resistance during the North-West Uprising in 1885, just ten years following the arrival of Icelandic immigrants in Manitoba. The armed stance of a group Read More ->

The making of nations and museums. Nordic national museums in European context

Open lecture by Peter Aronsson 28.2.2018, 12:10-13:00, Oddi-206 The making of modern museums will be interpreted as part of a complex cultural negotiation of European modernization and nation-making. The varied structure of Nordic national museums will be explained as related Read More ->

Temporal entanglements and historical irony in Philippine global migration

Open lecture by Pauline Gardiner Barber, Anthropology Professor at Dalhousie University, Canada 28.2.2018, 11:10-12:00, Oddi-206 The history of global capitalism is synonymous with the manipulation of time and space. Capital seeks ever greater efficiencies through the bending of time and Read More ->

The ‘Inequitable’ Position of Filipinas in ‘Multicultural’ Families in S. Korea

Open lecture by Minjung Kim, Professor in Anthropology, Kangwon National Unviersity 9.2.2018, 12:00-13:00, Oddi-205 About the lecture It was a Filipina marriage migrant, Jasmine Lee, who in 2012 became the first naturalized Korean citizen to join the Korean national assembly. Read More ->