November 1-2, 2024
Inaugural Theme: MIGRATION
Discover how studies on migration — from multiple disciplines and world regions — can enrich our understanding and point the way toward helpful social responses and policy engagement.
Panels will examine youth migration and politics in the Global South, legal and institutional factors shaping migration in East Asia, the politics of refugee resettlement in Europe, and efforts to preserve linguistic and cultural identity among refugee communities in the United States.
SCHEDULE
Friday, November 1
3:00 - 4:00 pm — Keynote Address by Tariq Roland Riebl, Norwegian Refugee Council
4:10 - 5:25 pm — Panel 1: Youth Migration and Politics in the Global South
5:30 - 6:45 pm — Reception
Saturday, November 2
8:30 - 9:30 am — Coffee & pastries outside Shreve Auditorium
9:30 - 10:45 am — Panel 2: Migration and Institutional Design: Lessons from East Asia
11:00 am - 12:15 pm — Panel 3: From Asylum to Bedlam? Migration, Refugees and the Future of the European Union
12:15 pm — Lunch served in the HLS Global Lounge
12:45 - 2:00 pm — Graduate student poster session in the HLS Atrium
2:00 - 3:15 pm — Panel 4: Empowering Displaced Communities through Language and Culture
3:15 pm — Closing Remarks
Keynote
Tariq Riebl is the Global Programme Strategy and Innovation Director at the Norwegian Refugee Council. He is an experienced Humanitarian Response Director, having worked on conflicts, natural disasters and epidemics in more than fifteen countries around the world since 2006 for the United Nations, the International Rescue Committee, Oxfam and Doctors Without Borders (MSF).
His work has covered many of the largest crises of the past years, including the Yemen civil war, Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, the Ebola outbreaks in West Africa and DR Congo and the droughts of the Horn of Africa and West Africa, amongst others.
Besides his operational work, he has been an outspoken advocate on a range of humanitarian policy issues, both through public lobbying and silent diplomacy.
Panel 1: Youth migration and politics in the Global South
This panel will examine youth migration in Latin America and Africa and will address the roles that leadership plays in the decisions that young people make to undertake migration, both intra- and inter-nationally. How does local, national, and international leadership create drivers of migration, and how might leadership create opportunities for young people to pursue their dreams closer to their homes?
Panelists will be announced soon.
Panel 2: Migration and Institutional Design: Lessons from East Asia
This panel will examine how institutional design affects migrant access and experiences in three East Asian cases: those of Japan, South Korea, and China/Taiwan. Panelists will discuss guest worker schemes in Japan, asylum rules in South Korea, and restrictions in mobility across Chinese provinces, which have contributed to foreseeable and unanticipated challenges for migrants and surrounding populations in all three locales.
Moderator: Sarah Friedman, Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies, Indiana University
Panelists:
Hilary Holbrow, Assistant Professor of Japanese Politics and Society, HLS
Angela McClean, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, HLS
Panel 3: From Asylum to Bedlam? Migration, Refugees and the Future of the European Union
This panel will examine challenges to the EU’s migration system in an era of large-scale migration from Syria, Ukraine, Africa, and elsewhere. It will discuss the wide array of approaches to welcoming, integrating, granting status to or rebuffing migrants that has emerged across EU member states. It will explore real and perceived threats to European security and cohesion, as well as nationalist politics and fear mongering, and the effects these have had on European politics and policy.
Moderator: Justyna Zając, Director of the Polish Studies Center; Jean Monnet Chair of European Security Studies; Professor of Practice, Department of International Studies (Hamilton Lugar School) and Department of Political Science (College of Arts & Sciences), Indiana University
Co-sponsored by the Institute of European Studies and Polish Studies Center
Panel 4: Empowering Displaced Communities through Language and Culture
This panel will examine how universities, local governments, and civil society institutions are working to preserve linguistic and cultural diversity within refugee communities. Speakers will focus on the case of Chin refugee communities in Indiana, as well as efforts elsewhere to ensure the continued vitality of languages and cultures that refugees transport around the world.
Moderator: Jennifer Goodlander, Director of Southeast Asian Studies, HLS; Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, IU
Panelists:
Kelly Harper Berkson, Associate Professor of Linguistics, IUMichal Temkin Martinez, Professor and Chair of the Department of Linguistics, Boise State University
Kenneth Van Bik, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Comparative Literature, and Linguistics, California State University at Fullerton