PAST EVENTS

13 March |17.00 - 18.00

MiRG Meets IOM

Nador 15 | 202

Mr. Balázs Lehel

27 February |17.00 - 18.00

What About Human Rights?

Nador 15 | 102

Costanza Pusateri

13 February |17.00 - 18.30 

The Political Undocumented

Nador 15 | 203

Elettra Repetto

16 January |17.00 - 18.30 

From Darfur to Jordan, life of refugees between political deals and solidarity movements

Taraf Abu Hadman 

Nador 15 | Nimetz 102

28 November |17.00 - 18.30

Migrant solidarity, urban neoliberalism and the institutionalisation of aid in Serbia

Céline Cantat

Nador 15 | Nimetz 102

17 November |17.15 - 18.30

Gendered Vulnerabilities: Assessing the Deservingness of Refugee Women in Turkey 

Meric Caglar

Nador 15 | Room 104

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31 October |17.00 - 18.30

The Destiny of Unaccompanied Minor Asylum Seekers in Hungary

Irina Molodikova

Nador 15 | Room 104

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3 October |17.00 - 18.30

The Triple Block to Integration of refugees in Hungary and the tools to Remove Them

Boldizsàr Nagy

Nador 15 | Room 102

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19 September |17.00 - 18.30

What Happened This Summer?

Elettra Repetto

Nador 15 | Room 104

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17 May |17.00 - 18.30 

Ukrainian Temporary Agency Workers in the Electronics Sector in Hungary

Olena Fedyuk, Tibor T. Meszmann

Nador 15 | Room 202

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19 April |17.00 - 18.30

The Metamorphosis of Aliens into Political Agents

Elettra Repetto

Nador 15 | Room 104

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8 March |17.00 - 18.30

'Democratic Legitimacy in International Refugee Law'

Zsolt Kapelner

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22 February | 17.00 - 18.30

Migrants’ Integration Experiences in Hungary and Their Institutional-Political Context II - Current Developments

with Jenna Althoff and Barnabas Bencsik

N15 202

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8 February | 17.00 - 18.30

MiRG Meeting

N15 202

Presentation of the recently published report on Migrants’ Integration Experiences in Hungary and Their Institutional-Political Context

25 January | 17.00 - 18.30

Re-Foundation Meeting of MiRG

Nador u. 9, Monument Building | Room 202

07 December | from 03.00 p.m.
Moving Labor Power and Historical Forms of Migration: The Internationalist Socialist Worker, the Social Benefit Tourist and the Economic Migrant
Senate room (Monument Building)

Public PhD Defense by Raia Apostolova-Englehart (Department of Sociology & Social Anthropology)

30 NOVEMBER 2017 | 01.00 p.m.

The Rohingya Crisis: From Where? To Where?

Nador 13 building | Room N13/307A

Matthew Walton (Aung San Suu Kyi Senior Research Fellow in Modern Burmese Studies and Director of the Asian Studies Centre, University of Oxford) (via video)
Wynn Thane (Executive Director, Open Society Myanmar Foundation) (via video)
Oleksandr Shtokvych (Senior Program Manager, Yehuda Elkana Center for Higher Education)
in conversation with Renata Uitz (Legal Studies, CEU)
jointly organized by The Yehuda Elkana Center for Higher Education and the Department of Legal Studies

Friday 17 November, 6 pm, Toldi Mozi

MiRG goes to the Movies! 

In occasion of the Verzio Film Festival which presents several documentaries focused on mobility and migration, the Migration Research Group (MiRG) decided to invite its members to the screening of The Wait, meeting exceptionally on Friday at 6 pm directly at the cinema Toldi!

http://verzio.org/en/2017/films/the-wait

The screening will be followed by a discussion with:

Kitty McKinsey, Senior Communications Officer, UNHCR
Boldizsár Nagy international lawyer
András Léderer, Hungarian Helsinki Committee
Moderator: András Földes, journalist of Index.

Discussions are in Hungarian with English simultaneous translation.

31 October | 11.00 - 12.30
An Occasional Alliance or a New Power in Europe? The V4's Coalition Building along the Refugee Issue
!October Hall, October 6 utca 7! Registration needed.

jointly organized by the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation Budapest and the Center for European Neighbourhood Studies (CENS)

20 October | 15.30 - 17.10
Conversations on the Refugee Crisis: Who is a refugee? What is a refugee?
! N13, 301!

jointly organized by the Yehuda Elkana Center for Higher Education, the Open Learning Initiative (OLive), the Migration Research Group, and the Department of Legal Studies

19 October | 17.30 - 19.00

CANCELLED!! The role of interpreters between refugees and the society. Voicing refugees' claims in Greece
! N15 Quantum Room!

5 October | 16.15 - 17.45
Migration Research Group Meeting - Practising Refugee Law in the Heart of a Refugee Crisis: the case of Greece
! N13, G05!*

*Please write an email to mirg@ceu.edu if you do not posess a CEU ID card.

21 September | 16.15 - 17.45
Migration Research Group Meeting - Organizational Meeting & Presentation on "The effect of restrictive immigration policies: The case of transitional arrangements" (Magdalena Ulceluse, CEU) 
! N15, 106!

06 June | 17.15 - 18.45
Migration Research Group Meeting - Statelessness: A long forgotten human rights violation – What is it and how can we resolve it? (Gábor Gyulai, Hungarian Helsinki Committee & European Network on Statelessness)
!Room 104!

29 May 2017 | 9.00 - 13.30
Conference - "Us vs. Them: Populism, the Refugee Other and the Re-Consideration of National Identity in Central and Eastern Europe", (Nador 15 Building, Room 103)

jointly organized by the Center for European Neighborhood Studies (CENS) and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES)

24 May 2017 | 11.00 - 12.45
IAS Lecture - Jewish Refugees in the Balkans: A Transnational Historical Puzzle (Bojan Aleksov), Nador utca 15, room Quantum 101

23 May 2017 | 17.15 - 18.45
Migration Research Group Meeting - SOS Children's Village: Refugee Program (Eszter Kósa)
!Room 104!

09 May 2017 | 17.15 - 18.45
Migration Research Group Meeting - Constructing Roma Migrants: European Narratives and Local Governance, Tina Magazzini (Deusto, Spain) & Stefano Piemontese (UAB, Spain)

jointly organized by the Center for Policy Studies and the Migration Research Group (MiRG)

03 April 2017 | 15.30 - 17.00
Book Presentation - Inclusion and exclusion in Europe: migration, work and employment perspectives (Olena Fedyuk & Paul Stewart, Editors)
!Different venue!

03 April 2017 | 09.00 - 10.30
Public Panel - Migration & Migration Governance in Illiberal Times (Venue TBA)

28 March 2017 | 17.15 - 18.45
Migration Research Group Seminar - Student Presentations of MA-Thesis Projects: Constructing the migrant - manifestations of the Illiberal among Hungarian children (Aiski Ryokas, Sociology & Social Anthropology ’17), Legal Double Standards: Private Prisons and Undocumented Immigrant Detenetion in the U.S. (Michael Parrish, SPP '17)

16 March 2017 | 17.30 - 19.00
Lecture - The East in the West: Fluctuating Borders, Cross-Cultural Encounters and Evolving Identities in the Early Modern Eastern Mediterranean (Margarita Voulgaropoulou, postdoctoral researcher at the OTTOCONFESSION project at CEU)

08 March 2017 | 11.00 - 12.40
IAS Seminar - The way home: Peaceful return of victims of ethnic cleansing (Djordje Stefanovic, Junior EURIAS Fellow)

07 March 2017 | 17.15 -18.45
Migration Research Group Seminar - The Adriatic path of Eastern European asylum seekers during the Cold War. The case study of Italy as a transit country (Blinken OSA Archivum – Visegrad Scholarship at OSA fellow Francesca Rolandi)
!Different venue!

jointly organized by OSA Archivum and the Migration Research Group (MiRG)

28 February 2017 | 16.00 - 17.30
Migration Research Group Seminar - Migrants, city making and the value creation processes in a multiscalar perspective: Space and time in migration scholarship (Prof. Ayse Caglar, University of Vienna & Visiting Professor at CEU)
!Different time!

28 February 2017 | 13.30 -15.10
Lecture - Why Race is Still Socially Constructed (Dr. David Ludwig)

28 February 2017 | 18.00 - 20.00
Film Screening - PATRIA NOSTRA - Minor Hungarian refugees in 1956 in the French Foreign Legion (The screening is accompanied by a discussion with the author and film director Béla Nóvé (Historian) and  András Mink (Historian, Blinken OSA Archivum)

15 February 2017 | 11.00 - 12.00
Public Lecture - Migration: A Common European Challenge (Mr. Morgan Johansson, Minister for Justice and Migration, Sweden)
!Nádor 15, Auditorium A!

(jointly organised by the CEU Center for European Neighborhood Studies (CENS) and the Embassy of Sweden in Budapest)

14 February 2017 | 17.15 - 18.45
Migration Research Group Seminar - How Immigrants Helped EU Labor Markets to Adjust during the Great Recession (Prof. Martin Kahanec)

03 & 04 February 2017 | 09.30 - 19.00
Conference - Philosophy of Borders: Nations, States, and Immigration (Keynote by Margaret Moore, Queen’s University)

(co-organised by the Hungarian Academy of Science and CEU)

31 January 2017 | 17.15 - 18.45
Migration Research Group Meeting - postponed

18 January 2017 | 18.00 - 20.00
Lecture - Why Multiculturalism isn`t Dead: Liberal Law and the Empowerment of Gays and Muslims (Christian Joppke)

17 January 2017 | 17.15 - 18.45
Migration Research Group Seminar - Student Presentations of MA-Thesis Projects: State Responses to Cross-Border Activism on the Western-Balkans Route to Europe (Zuzana Pavelková, LEGS ’17)
! ROOM 102, N15!

08 December 2016 | 15.30 -17.00
Migration Research Group Film Screening - Road of a Migrant (Olena Fedyuk, 2015, 52')

05 December 2016 | 09.00 - 17.30
Conference - From “Crisis” to Challenges of Integration: The Current State of the Balkan Migration Route
! Live stream available

24 November 2016 | 15.30 - 17.00
Migration Research Group Meeting - Refugees as Surplus Populations: Capitalism and Common Marginalisations of Migrants and Subaltern Populations (Prem Kumar Rajaram)
! Live stream available & change in venue

23 November 2016 | 11.00 - 12.30
IAS Seminar - Managing Contested Borders: A Case Study of the India-Pakistan Border (Happymon Jacob)

18 November 2016 | 10.00 - 12.00
Lecture - Inside a refugee ‘camp’: a comparative look at housing and livelihoods of refugees in the Middle East (Erlin Agich)

17-18 November 2016 | 9.30 - 19.00
Workshop - Challenging the Political Beyond and Across Borders: Possibilities and Tensions of Migrants’ and Solidarity Struggles

(co-organised by the Center for Policy Studies, the Department of Sociology & Social Anthropology, the Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy and International Relations, and the Department of Gender Studies at CEU)

17 November 2016 | 17.00 - 19.00
Lecture - There is Always a Before and an After: Documentation, Archives and the Global Refugee Crisis (Anne J. Gilliland, UCLA)

14 November 2016 | 9.30 - 18.30
International Conference - Migration and Refugees Today: Giving History Its Place in Debates and Research

(organized by the Center for Migrations and Citizenship (IFRI, Paris), in partnership with Central European University, University of Amsterdam, University of Warwick, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the French Network of Institutes for Advanced Study)

10 November 2016 | 15.30 -17.00
Migration Research Group Seminar - Hungary's long summer of migration - irresponsible governance fails people seeking international protection: A report by MigSzol
(Johannes Mahr & Felix Bender, MigSzol members)

27 October 2016 | 15.30 - 17.00
Migration Research Group Seminar - Diaspora management and diaspora identities in Hungary (Szabolcs Pogonyi, Nationalism Studies)

24 October 2016 | 15.30 onwards
Departmental Seminar: The Discourses of Radical Diaspora Politics: A Historical Perspective on Migrant Political Violence and Terrorism (Mate Tokic)

20 October 2016 | 15.30 -17.00
Migration Research Group Seminar - Securitizing Migration in Contemporary Hungary: From Discourse to Practice (Andras Szalai & Gabriella Göbl, CENS)

10 October 2016 | 14.00 onwards
Roundtable discussion - The Politics of Migration Across Europe: Domestic Politics and European Values

06 October 2016 | 10.45 - 14.30
Book Launch - Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession

30 September 2016 | 12.00 - 13.30
Migration Research Group (MiRG) - Brown Bag Organizational Meeting