Calendar of Activities for AMID – Spring 2006
(in collaboration with the School for Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Research on Interculturalism and Transnationality (SPIRIT) and the European Research Unit).

Planning and coordination of the activities are made as common initiatives of the Academy. The more practical organization of the activities are in the hands of the host institution but the different activities can take place at any of the partner institutions.

FEBRUARY

Wednesday 15 - Cancelled
SPIRIT Activity
Time: 14-15:30
Peter Kvistgaard (TRU, Aalborg University): Destination Experience Management.
Discussant: Anette Therkelsen

Friday 17
AMID Activity
Time: 13:00
PhD Defence: Lærke Klitgaard Holm (PhD candidate, AMID): Folketinget og Udlændingepolitikken - diskurser om naturaliserede, indvandrere og flygtninge 1973-2002 [in Danish].
Danish abstract. English abstract.
Venue: Fibigerstraede 4, room 1

Monday 20
AMID Activity
Time: 13:00-14:30
Adrian Favell (University of California Los Angeles, USA): Internal and External Movers: East-West Migration and the Impact of EU Enlargement.

Wednesday 22
AMID Activity
Time: 13-15
Anja Bredal (Senter for kvinne- og kjønnsforskning, Universitetet i Oslo): Familie på godt og vondt. Hvordan skal vi forstå tvangsekteskap?
Venue: Socialforskningsinstituttet, Herluf Trolles Gade 11, 1052 København K, mødelokale 1 & 2.

MARCH

Wednesday 1
ERU Activity
Time: 14-15:30
Tadeusz Kowalski (Poznan Economic University, Poland): Polity vs. Economy in New Member States. The Case of Poland.

Thursday 2
ERU Activity
Time: 14-15:30
Michael Smith (Loughborough University, UK): The Shock of the Real: Trends in European Foreign and Security Policy Since 11 September 2001.

Friday 3
AMID Activity
Time: 13:00
PhD Defence: Trine Lund Thomsen (PhD candidate, AMID): Immigrant Entrepreneurship as Gendered Social Positions. A study on motivations and strategies in a biographical perspective.
Venue: Fibigerstraede 2, Room 1

Monday 6
SPIRIT Activity
Time: 9-12
Course on Advanced Information Search On-line
Organizer: Niels Jørgen Blaabjerg
Venue: Aalborg University Library (AUB), Langagervej 2
Registration: kaa@ihis.aau.dk no later than February 28, 2006.

Tuesday 7
SPIRIT Activity
Time: 14-15:30
Jakob Lauring (Aarhus School of Business): Creating the Tourism Product - an anthropological study on charter tourists in the construction of the good holiday experience.

Wednesday 8
SPIRIT Activity
Time: 15:00
Welcome Reception for New Faculty Members & SPIRIT Guests.
Venue: room 37, Fib. 2

Thursday 16
SPIRIT Activity
Time: 14-15:30
Chik Collins (University of Paisley, Scotland, UK): Discourse and the Critique of Neo-Liberalism: A Cultural-Historical Critique of Norman Fairclough's CDA.

Tuesday 28 - Seminar cancelled (seminar will be held later - date tba)
AMID Activity
Time: 14-15:30
Lisanne Wilken (AMID, University of Aarhus): France is Burning, is Europe next? A discussion of the international media representation of the 2005 riots in France with reference to immigration in Europe.
Discussant: Lærke Holm

APRIL

Wednesday 5 - Thursday 6
AMID Activity
Conference: Indvandrerdage [Immigration Days] - in Danish.
Venue: Aalborg Kongres og Kultur Center

Tuesday 18
SPIRIT Activity
Time: 8:30-16:45
Internal PhD Course: A Method Reflection Seminar

Thursday 20
SPIRIT Activity
Time: 14-15:30
Malene Gram (International Studies, AAU): The Meaning of Age: mature tourists' age negotiations.
Discussant: Anette Therkelsen

Tuesday 25 - POSTPONED to 16 May
SPIRIT Activity
Time: 14-15:30
Ingeborg Nordbø (SPIRIT PhD Candidate, AAU): Tourism as an Agent of Change in Rural Areas - the case of entrepreneurial family businesses in Norway and Chile.
Discussant: Susanne Jensen

Thursday 27
SPIRIT Activity
Time: 14-15:30
Venue: Fib. 2, room 68
Ioana Bunescu (Visiting PhD Fellow, Graduate School for Social Research at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland): Roma/Gypsy Identity Construction under Local and Global Conditions.
Discussant: Trine Lund Thomsen

MAY

Tuesday 9
AMID Activity
Time: 14-15:30
Sikunder A. Baber (PhD candidate, Dept. of Education, Learning and Philosophy, Aalborg University): Investigation into the foregrounds of migrants from Pakistan to Denmark: what can be learned from this approach of working with diversity?
Discussant: Martin Bak Jørgensen

Thursday 11
AMID Activity
Time: 14-15:30
Daniel Gustafsson (AMID PhD candidate, Aalborg University): Human Trafficking and Prostitution: The Effect of Two Different Prostitution Regimes.
Discussant: Ann-Dorte Christensen

Tuesday 16
SPIRIT Activity
Time: 14-15:30
Ingeborg Nordbø (SPIRIT PhD Candidate, AAU): Tourism as an Agent of Change in Rural Areas - the case of entrepreneurial family businesses in Norway and Chile.
Discussant: Susanne Jensen

Thursday 18 - POSTPONED (date tba)
SPIRIT Activity
Time: 14-15:30
Bonnie Boye (SPIRIT PhD Candidate, Aalborg University): title tba
Discussant: tba

Friday 19
Defence of Senior-level Doctoral Dissertation
Time: 12:15-18:15 (max)
Prof. Henrik Halkier will defend his senior-level doctoral dissertation Institutions, Discourse and Regional Development – The Scottish Development Agency and the Politics of Regional Policy.
Danish summary
Venue: Lecture Theatre B, Bertil Ohlins Vej, Aalborg University

Tuesday 30
SPIRIT Activity
Time: 14-15:30
Iulia Dumitriu (Visiting PhD Fellow, Aalborg University): Value Orientations and Personal Development of Romanian Immigrants in Denmark.
Discussant: Trine Lund Thomsen

Wednesday 31 - postponed to 9 June
SPIRIT Activity
Time: 14-15:30
Susanne Bendtsen (Tourism Research Unit): Feasibility Study for Blokhus/Hune [seminar in Danish].

JUNE

Thursday 1 - Friday 2 - CANCELLED
IHIS Activity
Conference: US Foreign Policy after 1945: Cynical or Benevolent - National or Imperial?
Venue: Lecture Theatre B, Bertil Ohlins Vej.

Thursday 1
AMID Activity
Time: 13-15
Lene Arnett Jensen (Visiting AMID Fellow, Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychology, Clark University, USA): Coming of Age in a Multicultural World: Moral and Cultural Identity Development.
Venue: SFI, Herluf Trolles Gade 11, Copenhagen.

Thursday 8 - POSTPONED
AMID Activity
Time: 14-15:30
Helle Stenum (AMID PhD Candidate, Aalborg University): Selection of the Fittest and Exclusion of the Unwanted. Migration management in the postcolonial world.
Discussant: tba

Friday 9
TRU Activity
Time: 13-15:00
Susanne Bendtsen (Tourism Research Unit) & Iben Steensbæk Schrøder (Arkitektur & Design, AAU): Blokhus i forandring - turismen, byen, havet.

Tuesday 13
AMID Activity
Time: 14-15:30
Lisanne Wilken (AMID, University of Aarhus): France is Burning, is Europe next? A discussion of the international media representation of the 2005 riots in France with reference to immigration in Europe.
Discussant: Lærke Holm

Tuesday 13
SPIRIT Activity
Time: 17-
Social get-together (farewell party for departing visiting PhD fellows)

Thursday 15
AMID Activity
Time: 14-15:30
Lene Arnett Jensen (Visiting AMID Fellow, Clark University, USA): In Search of Cultural Validity in Research: A Cultural-Developmental Approach to the Study of Values and Norms.

Tuesday 20
SPIRIT Activity
Time: 13:15-14:30
Carole Clavier (Visiting PhD Candidate, University of Rennes, France): Healthy Cities in France and in Denmark: transfer of ideas and its effects on the standardisation of practices.

The schedule is subject to change