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AMID Opening Conference—follow-up
Title: 'Multicultural Citizenship and Integration of Ethnic Minorities'
August 29-30, 2001
Venue: Aalborg University - Kroghstraede, Lecture theatre B (Auditorium B), 9220 Aalborg East

FEBRUARY 2002

Thursday 14, 14-15:30
Shivalingappa S. Halli (University of Manitoba, Canada):
"The Declining Earnings of Recent Immigrants in Canada by Admission Class, 1980-1995".

Monday 25, 9:30-17:30
AMID Workshop on Integration (for AMID associates only).
Venue: Kroghstraede 3, Room 2.127.

MARCH 2002

Tuesday 5, 14-15:30
Bo Petersson (Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden):
"Combating Uncertainty, Combating the Global: Scapegoating, Xenophobia and the National-local Nexus".

Wednesday 6, 13:15-15
Catarina Kinnvall (Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden):
"In the Name of Tradition: Globalization, Dislocation and the Postcolonial Subject".

Friday 8, 10:30-12
Henrik Olesen (Consultant):
"Migration, Return and Development. An Institutional Perspective".

APRIL 2002

Thursday 4, 14-15:30
Susi Meret (AMID, Aalborg University):
"Migration, New Political Cleavages and the Radical Right: A Comparative Analysis of the Danish, Italian and Austrian Case"

Thursday 11, 14-15:30
Flemming Mikkelsen, (AMID, Aalborg University):
"Social and Political Movements in Denmark seen in a Transnational and International Perspective"

MAY 2002

Thursday 2, 14-15:30
Andrew Geddes (University of Liverpool, UK):
"The Spatial and Temporal Reconstruction of Migration Policy as a Challenge for European Governance"

Friday 3, 10:15-12
Andrew Geddes (University of Liverpool, UK):
"The Impact of EU Article 13 and the Subsequent EU Anti-discrimination Legislation on the UK and France"

NEW DATE is WEDNESDAY 15, 14-15:30
AMID Visiting Fellow Svitlana Taraban (York University, Toronto, Canada): "Queens and Pawns: Writing/Reading Globalization through the Narratives of Female Border-Crossers"

CANCELLED Thursday 23 and MOVED to Thursday 30
Thursday 23, 14-15:30
Kirsten Hviid (AMID, Aalborg University): "Immigrant Youth and Delinquency. A Comparative Study of Youth at Risk"

Friday 24, 18:00
Social get-together with dinner at Restaurant Layalina. For registration, please contact Julie Larsen

The presentation has been moved from Thursday, May 23
Thursday 30, 14-15:30
Kirsten Hviid (AMID, Aalborg University): "Immigrant Youth and Delinquency. A Comparative Study of Youth at Risk"

The presentation has been moved to the autumn semester:
Thursday 30, 14-15:30
Flemming Mikkelsen, (AMID, Aalborg University): (in Danish) "Social og politisk mobilisering af indvandrere og flygtninge i Danmark set i et transnationalt og internationalt perspektiv"

SEPTEMBER 2002

Tuesday 24. 15-16h:
Social activity: Welcome meeting - new associates meet faculty.

Thursday 26 – Friday 27.
PhD Course: Discourse Theory and Practice.
Application deadline (announced earlier): September 1. Programme see above under Workshops and Conferences. Venue: Gl. Vraa Castle outside Aalborg. Organizers: SPIRIT and AMID.

OCTOBER 2002

Cancelled!
Tuesday 29. 14-15:30h:
Alessandra Buonfino (Marie Curie visiting fellow, Cambridge University, UK):
Nationalism, citizenship and a Community Immigration policy: How nationalism and sovereignty affect the progress of European policy-making. Outline of PhD project. (Organized in collaboration with SPIRIT ).

Thursday 31. 14-15:30h:
Flemming Mikkelsen (AMID, Aalborg Universitet):
Indvandrerorganisationer i Danmark og Norden. Fremlaeggelse af aktuel forskning. (in Danish).

NOVEMBER 2002

Thursday 7. 14-15:30h:
Zhidas Daskalovski (AMID Visiting Fellow, Central European University, Hungary):
Liberalism and Multicultural Issues . Outline of PhD project.

Thursday 21. 14-15:30h:
Lisanne Wilken (AMID, Aalborg University):
Visions for Integration. Making Room for Migrants in the European Union. Presentation of ongoing research.

Friday 29:
AMID Workshop (internal activity).
Venue: SFI, Copenhagen.

DECEMBER 2002

Monday 9. 14-15:30h:
Carsten Bagge Laustsen (AMID Visiting Fellow, Aarhus University):
Nationalism and Religion. The Politics of Myth. Presentation of ongoing research.

Wednesday 11. 14-15:30h:
Carsten Bagge Laustsen (AMID Visiting Fellow, Aarhus University):
Nationalism and Religion. Rape as a Weapon of War. Presentation of ongoing research.

APRIL 2001

Thursday 19, 14.15-15.45 pm
Belén Agrela (EU Marie Curie Ph.D. Fellow), University of Granada, Spain: 'The Institutional Construction of Cultural Differences: An Anthropological Analysis of Immigration Policies in Spain'.
Venue: Fibigerstraede 2, Room 35, Aalborg University

Wednesday 25, 10.15-12.00 am NEW DATE AND TIME
David May, Aalborg University, presentation of ongoing Ph.D. research, 'Imagined Conflicts in Dortmund Nordstadt'.
Venue: Fibigerstraede 2, Room 35, Aalborg University

MAY 2001

Tuesday 15, 14.15-15.45 pm
Jens Hoff, Department of Political Science, Copenhagen University: 'Political Participation of Immigrants in Denmark'.
Venue: Fibigerstraede 2, Room 1, Aalborg University

Thursday 17, 14.15-15-45 pm
Vera Botelho, University of Southern Denmark, presentation of ongoing senior research on 'Migration and Fertility'.
Venue: Fibigerstraede 2, Room 35, Aalborg University

SEPTEMBER 2001

Thursday 20 at 13:15-15
Gunther Dietz (University of Granada, Spain): The Moors Back on the Shore? The impact of
circum-Mediterranean migration on regionalism and identity politics in Southern Spain.

Thursday 27 at 16-17:30
Venue: Fib. 5, room 37
Dorothy Burton Skårdal has been invited by Prof. Per Boje to give a
presentation on: Danish Emigrants and Their Assimilation into American Society: A
Research Field with Excellent Research Possibilities in Aalborg.

Friday 28 at 13-14
Venue: Fibigerstraede 2, room 123
Bente Puntervold Bø (Oslo University College (Høgskolen i Oslo)):
Immigration Control, Law and Morality: Visa Policies Towards Visitors and Asylum Seekers.--an Evaluation of Norwegian Visa Policies Within a Legal and Moral Frame of Reference.
The lecture will be based on the speaker's recently defended dr.philos. thesis.

OCTOBER 2001

Tuesday 9 at 9-11 am
NBNBNB: ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEW EVENT
SPIRIT and AMID co-host a

Debating Seminar, October 9, 9-11 am,
The Guest Canteen, Fibigerstraede 15
on the following topic:

"SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, AND ITS AFTERMATH:
THE BEGINNINGS OF A NEW GLOBAL ORDER?"
(see the full abstract above at "Workshops and conferences")

Thursday 11 at 13:15-15
Elisabetta Della Corte (University of Calabria, Italy): Kurdish Refugees: Asylum in Italy?

Thursday 25 at 13:15-15
Flemming Mikkelsen (AMID): Integrationens paradox. Metodiske og teoretiske overvejelser (in Danish).

NOVEMBER 2001

Friday 23 at 10:30-17
AMID Workshop (only for AMID associates).