Events / Ayşe Çağlar

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	"Difficult to Settle" Refugees in Post-War Trieste	Wed, 11.05.2022	Seminars and Colloquia	Ayşe ÇağlarPamela Ballinger	"Difficult to Settle" Refugees in Post-War Trieste Wed, 11.05.2022 Speakers: Ayşe ÇağlarPamela Ballinger Series: Seminars and Colloquia As the principal city of a border region long imagined as straddling Europe’s East-West divide, Trieste became a critical hub in the post-1945 landscape of European refugee relief. Under Anglo-American Allied Military Government until 1954 as a result of the protracted territorial dispute between Italy and Yugoslavia, the city remained an important transit point for persons displaced out of the newly established socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe well into the 1960s. Read more
"Difficult to Settle" Refugees in Post-War Trieste Wed, 11.05.2022 Speakers: Ayşe ÇağlarPamela Ballinger Series: Seminars and Colloquia As the principal city of a border region long imagined as straddling Europe’s East-West divide, Trieste became a critical hub in the post-1945 landscape of European refugee relief. Under Anglo-American Allied Military Government until 1954 as a result of the protracted territorial dispute between Italy and Yugoslavia, the city remained an important transit point for persons displaced out of the newly established socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe well into the 1960s. Read more
	Alien Logic	Tue, 11.05.2021	Lecture	Ayşe Çağlar Martin Burckhardt Timothy Snyder	Alien Logic Tue, 11.05.2021 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Martin Burckhardt Timothy Snyder Series: Lecture Bronislaw Malinowski has shown with his ethnological studies that a supposedly primitive society can be of astonishing complexity, as well as why the structure of this order remains obscure to its members. Obviously, modern societies also suffer from system blindness – why else is digitization said to have chiliastic, diabolic, magical powers? In a continuation to his cultural-theoretical investigations on the genealogy and philosophy of the machine, Martin Burckhardt explores the question of how the self-enchantment of rationality can occur, and to what extent the operating system of the attention economy can be read as an outsourced unconscious. This, in turn, leads back to the point of departure: what perspective must a contemporary social anthropologist take in order to read the present? Read more
Alien Logic Tue, 11.05.2021 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Martin Burckhardt Timothy Snyder Series: Lecture Bronislaw Malinowski has shown with his ethnological studies that a supposedly primitive society can be of astonishing complexity, as well as why the structure of this order remains obscure to its members. Obviously, modern societies also suffer from system blindness – why else is digitization said to have chiliastic, diabolic, magical powers? In a continuation to his cultural-theoretical investigations on the genealogy and philosophy of the machine, Martin Burckhardt explores the question of how the self-enchantment of rationality can occur, and to what extent the operating system of the attention economy can be read as an outsourced unconscious. This, in turn, leads back to the point of departure: what perspective must a contemporary social anthropologist take in order to read the present? Read more
	An Aromatic Trail through the Centuries: The Damascene Rose as Art, Economics, and Anthropology on the Silk Road and Beyond	Mon, 11.12.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Yavor Siderov Ayşe Çağlar	An Aromatic Trail through the Centuries: The Damascene Rose as Art, Economics, and Anthropology on the Silk Road and Beyond Mon, 11.12.2023 Speakers: Yavor Siderov Ayşe Çağlar Series: Seminars and Colloquia The Rosa Damascena, itself a cultivar, is frequently described as the "queen of scents." Despite its name, which suggests a Syrian origin, it may have been selected in Persia. Its derivatives—attar, oil, and rose water—have become an indelible part of Islam and Hinduism. Read more
An Aromatic Trail through the Centuries: The Damascene Rose as Art, Economics, and Anthropology on the Silk Road and Beyond Mon, 11.12.2023 Speakers: Yavor Siderov Ayşe Çağlar Series: Seminars and Colloquia The Rosa Damascena, itself a cultivar, is frequently described as the "queen of scents." Despite its name, which suggests a Syrian origin, it may have been selected in Persia. Its derivatives—attar, oil, and rose water—have become an indelible part of Islam and Hinduism. Read more
	Autumn Fellows' Conference 2023	Wed, 29.11.2023	Conferences and Workshops	Anastasiia Omelianiuk Börries Kuzmany George Metakides Hana Kopecka Jan Farfal Jan Musil Johana Wyss Kinga Siewior Liz Calhoun Ludger Hagedorn Mikhail Minakov Misha Glenny Natalia Volvach Olesya Yaremchuk Slobodan Markovich Stanisław Boridczenko Stefan Voicu Ayşe ÇağlarBrigitta Busch, Anna Dobrosovestnova	Autumn Fellows' Conference 2023 Wed, 29.11.2023 Speakers: Anastasiia Omelianiuk Börries Kuzmany George Metakides Hana Kopecka Jan Farfal Jan Musil Johana Wyss Kinga Siewior Liz Calhoun Ludger Hagedorn Mikhail Minakov Misha Glenny Natalia Volvach Olesya Yaremchuk Slobodan Markovich Stanisław Boridczenko Stefan Voicu Ayşe ÇağlarBrigitta Busch, Anna Dobrosovestnova Series: Conferences and Workshops A staple of intellectual life at the IWM since its early days, the biannual conference provides an opportunity for early-career visiting researchers from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds to present their work and exchange ideas in a collegial atmosphere. Visiting and Permanent Fellows, alumni and scholars from Viennese institutions act as commentators and discussants. Read more
Autumn Fellows' Conference 2023 Wed, 29.11.2023 Speakers: Anastasiia Omelianiuk Börries Kuzmany George Metakides Hana Kopecka Jan Farfal Jan Musil Johana Wyss Kinga Siewior Liz Calhoun Ludger Hagedorn Mikhail Minakov Misha Glenny Natalia Volvach Olesya Yaremchuk Slobodan Markovich Stanisław Boridczenko Stefan Voicu Ayşe ÇağlarBrigitta Busch, Anna Dobrosovestnova Series: Conferences and Workshops A staple of intellectual life at the IWM since its early days, the biannual conference provides an opportunity for early-career visiting researchers from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds to present their work and exchange ideas in a collegial atmosphere. Visiting and Permanent Fellows, alumni and scholars from Viennese institutions act as commentators and discussants. Read more
	Becoming ....	Mon, 10.02.2020	Seminars and Colloquia	Ayşe Çağlar Lucy Ashton	Becoming .... Mon, 10.02.2020 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Lucy Ashton Series: Seminars and Colloquia Embraced, helped, distrusted, rejected – the refugees of 2015/16 have endured a vicious cycle of popular opinion. In Austria, young Afghans often carry the worst reputation. Nearly five years on, many are still in the asylum process while claims from other nationalities have long since been finalised. Meanwhile, the rejection rate for Afghan claims has almost doubled and Austria has begun deportations to Kabul. In the midst of this prolonged uncertainty, asylum seekers are expected to intergrate from Day 1. Read more
Becoming .... Mon, 10.02.2020 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Lucy Ashton Series: Seminars and Colloquia Embraced, helped, distrusted, rejected – the refugees of 2015/16 have endured a vicious cycle of popular opinion. In Austria, young Afghans often carry the worst reputation. Nearly five years on, many are still in the asylum process while claims from other nationalities have long since been finalised. Meanwhile, the rejection rate for Afghan claims has almost doubled and Austria has begun deportations to Kabul. In the midst of this prolonged uncertainty, asylum seekers are expected to intergrate from Day 1. Read more
	Cities and Human Mobility Research Collaborative Vienna Research Symposium	Wed, 01.03.2023 - Thu, 02.03.2023	Conferences and Workshops	Achilles Kallergis Ayşe ÇağlarColleen Thouez, Alex Aleinikoff, Liav Orgad, Lucy Earle, Gianluca Gatta	Cities and Human Mobility Research Collaborative Vienna Research Symposium Wed, 01.03.2023 - Thu, 02.03.2023 Speakers: Achilles Kallergis Ayşe ÇağlarColleen Thouez, Alex Aleinikoff, Liav Orgad, Lucy Earle, Gianluca Gatta Series: Conferences and Workshops The Cities and Human Mobility Research Collaborative held a two-day symposium presenting new research at the intersection of cities, citizenship, migration, and displacement. The symposium brought together scholars and practitioners from around the globe with the objective to advance knowledge that contributes to a greater understanding of the role of cities in accommodating human mobility. Read more
Cities and Human Mobility Research Collaborative Vienna Research Symposium Wed, 01.03.2023 - Thu, 02.03.2023 Speakers: Achilles Kallergis Ayşe ÇağlarColleen Thouez, Alex Aleinikoff, Liav Orgad, Lucy Earle, Gianluca Gatta Series: Conferences and Workshops The Cities and Human Mobility Research Collaborative held a two-day symposium presenting new research at the intersection of cities, citizenship, migration, and displacement. The symposium brought together scholars and practitioners from around the globe with the objective to advance knowledge that contributes to a greater understanding of the role of cities in accommodating human mobility. Read more
	Contradictions in the Governance of Environmental Mobility: Evidence from African Cities	Mon, 13.03.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Achilles Kallergis Ayşe Çağlar	Contradictions in the Governance of Environmental Mobility: Evidence from African Cities Mon, 13.03.2023 Speakers: Achilles Kallergis Ayşe Çağlar Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this colloquium, Achilles Kallergis discussed environmental mobility in the context of sub-Saharan Africa. It considered environmental mobility in the broader context of the region's urbanization. Drawing on evidence from participatory research in Accra, Dar es Salaam, Freetown, and Monrovia, Kallergis discussed the role of low-income urban neighborhoods as receiving areas simultaneously shaped by frequent, recurring mobility and immobility. Read more
Contradictions in the Governance of Environmental Mobility: Evidence from African Cities Mon, 13.03.2023 Speakers: Achilles Kallergis Ayşe Çağlar Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this colloquium, Achilles Kallergis discussed environmental mobility in the context of sub-Saharan Africa. It considered environmental mobility in the broader context of the region's urbanization. Drawing on evidence from participatory research in Accra, Dar es Salaam, Freetown, and Monrovia, Kallergis discussed the role of low-income urban neighborhoods as receiving areas simultaneously shaped by frequent, recurring mobility and immobility. Read more
	Covid-19 Pandemic and the Spectral Presence of Migrant Workers and Refugees	Wed, 24.06.2020	Panels and Discussions	Ayşe Çağlar Ranabir SamaddarAlex Aleinikoff, Roger Zetter	Covid-19 Pandemic and the Spectral Presence of Migrant Workers and Refugees Wed, 24.06.2020 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Ranabir SamaddarAlex Aleinikoff, Roger Zetter Series: Panels and Discussions The bordering processes unleashed by the Covid-19 pandemic has revealed the existing fault lines of our present-day societies and deepened the current fissures and dilemmas of global capitalist order, state sovereignty, and governance structures. On the basis of Calcutta Research Group’s book, Borders of an Epidemic: Covid-19 and Migrant Workers, edited by Prof. Ranabir Samaddar, which highlights the ethical and political implications of the pandemic, this round table addressed the changing landscape of visibility and invisibility of migrant workers, refugees as well as of national borders, which opens further questions about inequalities, public health, and politics of care. Read more
Covid-19 Pandemic and the Spectral Presence of Migrant Workers and Refugees Wed, 24.06.2020 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Ranabir SamaddarAlex Aleinikoff, Roger Zetter Series: Panels and Discussions The bordering processes unleashed by the Covid-19 pandemic has revealed the existing fault lines of our present-day societies and deepened the current fissures and dilemmas of global capitalist order, state sovereignty, and governance structures. On the basis of Calcutta Research Group’s book, Borders of an Epidemic: Covid-19 and Migrant Workers, edited by Prof. Ranabir Samaddar, which highlights the ethical and political implications of the pandemic, this round table addressed the changing landscape of visibility and invisibility of migrant workers, refugees as well as of national borders, which opens further questions about inequalities, public health, and politics of care. Read more
	Crisis, Conjuncture, and Biopolitics from Below	Mon, 16.10.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Ranabir Samaddar Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury Ayşe Çağlar	Crisis, Conjuncture, and Biopolitics from Below Mon, 16.10.2023 Speakers: Ranabir Samaddar Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury Ayşe Çağlar Series: Seminars and Colloquia Drawing on Indian experiences, Ranabir Samaddar explored “biopolitics from below” within governments caught in crises, particularly in the neoliberal era. The presentation revolved around two themes: (a) the specific context of multiple crises – recent epidemiological, financial, and political crises culminating in a crisis of life; and (b) the emergence of “biopolitics from below” as a response to this conjuncture. It demonstrated how “biopolitics from below” manifests as a phenomenon specifically during moments of crisis and conjuncture. Read more
Crisis, Conjuncture, and Biopolitics from Below Mon, 16.10.2023 Speakers: Ranabir Samaddar Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury Ayşe Çağlar Series: Seminars and Colloquia Drawing on Indian experiences, Ranabir Samaddar explored “biopolitics from below” within governments caught in crises, particularly in the neoliberal era. The presentation revolved around two themes: (a) the specific context of multiple crises – recent epidemiological, financial, and political crises culminating in a crisis of life; and (b) the emergence of “biopolitics from below” as a response to this conjuncture. It demonstrated how “biopolitics from below” manifests as a phenomenon specifically during moments of crisis and conjuncture. Read more
	Decolonizing Forced Migration Studies: Lessons from Borderlands	Wed, 12.05.2021	Seminars and Colloquia	Ayşe Çağlar Nergis Canefe	Decolonizing Forced Migration Studies: Lessons from Borderlands Wed, 12.05.2021 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Nergis Canefe Series: Seminars and Colloquia This presentation was an exploration of forced migration studies seen from the lens of de-colonial theory and invited us to consider shifting the geographies of reason habitually marking the field. Starting with a foundational critique of moralism and privilege marking canonized understandings of migration, precarity, displacement and dispossession, it unpacked the complexity of an existential political commitment to redefining forced migration not from the core/recipient states and societies but from borderlands. This work thus contributed to a long and rich—yet also troubled and deeply contested—conversation between postcolonial studies and forced migration studies. Read more
Decolonizing Forced Migration Studies: Lessons from Borderlands Wed, 12.05.2021 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Nergis Canefe Series: Seminars and Colloquia This presentation was an exploration of forced migration studies seen from the lens of de-colonial theory and invited us to consider shifting the geographies of reason habitually marking the field. Starting with a foundational critique of moralism and privilege marking canonized understandings of migration, precarity, displacement and dispossession, it unpacked the complexity of an existential political commitment to redefining forced migration not from the core/recipient states and societies but from borderlands. This work thus contributed to a long and rich—yet also troubled and deeply contested—conversation between postcolonial studies and forced migration studies. Read more