SVT Forum direktsänder ett seminarium om medborgarskap den 8 september där Pieter Bevelander och Mikael Spång från Malmö högskola medverkar. Delegationen för migrationsstudier-seminarium arrangerar och Joakim Palme leder seminariet.
Läs mer om seminariet på http://www.delmi.se/

Call for Proposals to Malmö University and Rochester Institute of Technology Partnership Symposium
RIT Campus, October 8 – 10, 2015

This year’s Symposium will be hosted by RIT. It is designed primarily to build on and bring to fruition already-established collaborative initiatives, but also to invite new contributions that extend the partnership in strategically important directions. The symposium is driven by the partnership’s commitment to support the following four Malmö University/RIT Partnership goals:

1. joint research projects
2. collaborative course development
3. curricular integration opportunities
4. enhancement of student and faculty mobility

The themes for this year’s Symposium are the following:

• Conceptions and Practices of “nature”: urban and non-urban environments; industrial and post-industrial environments; the wild and the cultivated; constructing and crossing boundaries—the local and global.
• Making and Managing Bodies: their circulation in urban space; green clothing initiatives; sexology; nationalized, colonized, and migrating bodies; forms of identity construction.
• Effects and Implications of new Technologies: gaming; mapping/producing space; managing people and privacy; improving infrastructure; transforming authorship, collaborative pedagogy; multi-media platforms; imaging practices.
• Forms and Practices of Sustainability: architecture; urban agriculture; housing and real estate; health systems; engineering systems; interactive design.

PLEASE CONSIDER PROPOSING, in one or two paragraphs, a Labinar and/or Study-Visit that addresses one or more of the four goals mentioned above and is set within one of the symposium themes.

Proposals will be reviewed by the MU/RIT Partnership Academic Council.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING PROPOSALS: SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

SUBMIT ELECTRONICALLY TO: muritpartnership@rit.edu

The symposium is free of charge, but travel and hotel is covered by each MaH participant/institution respectively.

Open for all interested – there is no fee but travel and accomodation expenses must be paid for and organized by each participant.

The following Contact persons at Malmö University can answer your question: Culture and Society: US – Magnus Johansson; K3 – Berndt Clavier; GPS – Dimosthenes Chatzoglakis; LS: Despina Tszimoula;
Technology and Society: Jeanette Eriksson.

Medea, a research lab at the Faculty of Culture and Society, kickstarts this fall with a Medea Talk featuring world-leading design scholar Ezio Manzini.

”We live in a world where everybody designs: individuals, communities and companies, even cities and entire regions. In his Medea Talk on September 10, Ezio Manzini will discuss how amateurs and professionals collaborate in creating social innovations that have the potential to make our societies more resilient and sustainable.”

Please, sign up for the event here:

http://medea.mah.se/event/invitation-medea-talks-ezio-manzini/

Last week Communication for Development’s Oscar Hemer and Anders Hög-Hansen launched a new anthology, Memory on Trial, a collection based on papers presented at the 2013 Örecomm festival:

”This book approaches the memory sharing of groups, communities and societies as inevitable struggles over the interpretation of, and authority over, particular stories. Coming to terms with the past in memory work, alone or with others, is always unsteady ground and the activation of memory will always relay imaginations of futures we want to shape and inhabit. The contributors all explore in different ways how citizens can actualize a public and how citizens and groups struggle with their pasts and presents – and other group’s understandings – in their work for futures they dream of, or envision. This implies an engagement with the notion of social justice, which in turn entails trial and revision of ideas and procedures of how to share the world. But to share also requires some kind of common ground and distributed power. The anthology thus engages with a range of cases that bring views and voices back in public, demanding justice, recognition, sometimes literally triggering new trials.” Read more at the Communication for Development portal

Migrants’ Experiences of Voluntary Return from Sweden to Iraq – June 17

You are warmly invited to participate and free to distribute to relevant networks and interested parties. Sign up by June 8th 2015:
The conference will present the research findings of the European Return Fund co-financed project on migrants’ experiences of voluntary return from Sweden to Iraq and the role of Swedish re-establishment support in this process.

See the Conference program and more information about the project and
sign up to the conference here, no later than June 8.

The conference is hosted by Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM) and co-financed by the European Return Fund. /Ioana Bunescu