Events / Program: Migrants and Urban Politics: Governing the Displaced and Cities

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	Buildings Communicate: Reading the European Migration Crisis Through Architecture	Mon, 26.01.2026	Seminars and Colloquia	Paolo Novak Ayşe Çağlar	Buildings Communicate: Reading the European Migration Crisis Through Architecture Mon, 26.01.2026 Speakers: Paolo Novak Ayşe Çağlar Series: Seminars and Colloquia This talk by Paolo Novak investigated what the buildings of asylum infrastructure communicate about crisis. It traced the institutional mechanisms that have turned ordinary structures into spaces of accommodation, listens to the stories of those who live within them, and unearths the histories of the communities that surround them. Read more
Buildings Communicate: Reading the European Migration Crisis Through Architecture Mon, 26.01.2026 Speakers: Paolo Novak Ayşe Çağlar Series: Seminars and Colloquia This talk by Paolo Novak investigated what the buildings of asylum infrastructure communicate about crisis. It traced the institutional mechanisms that have turned ordinary structures into spaces of accommodation, listens to the stories of those who live within them, and unearths the histories of the communities that surround them. Read more
	Sites of Statelessness	Tue, 20.01.2026	Panels and Discussions	Paolo Novak Ranabir Samaddar Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury Ayşe ÇağlarYuri Kazepov	Sites of Statelessness Tue, 20.01.2026 Speakers: Paolo Novak Ranabir Samaddar Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury Ayşe ÇağlarYuri Kazepov Series: Panels and Discussions This discussion addressed the distinctive dynamics of the different sites in the production of statelessness, considers their impact as critical, and does not merely treat them as a backdrop. The speakers argued that these different sites evoke distinct histories and repertoires and also offer different possibilities of alignment with emerging problematics. Read more
Sites of Statelessness Tue, 20.01.2026 Speakers: Paolo Novak Ranabir Samaddar Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury Ayşe ÇağlarYuri Kazepov Series: Panels and Discussions This discussion addressed the distinctive dynamics of the different sites in the production of statelessness, considers their impact as critical, and does not merely treat them as a backdrop. The speakers argued that these different sites evoke distinct histories and repertoires and also offer different possibilities of alignment with emerging problematics. Read more
	Spaces and Traces of Containment	Wed, 10.12.2025 - Wed, 10.12.2025	Conferences and Workshops	Paolo Novak Ayşe ÇağlarLaura Guérin, Platon Issaias, Katharyne Michell, Martina Tazzioli, Karin Harreser	Spaces and Traces of Containment Wed, 10.12.2025 - Wed, 10.12.2025 Speakers: Paolo Novak Ayşe ÇağlarLaura Guérin, Platon Issaias, Katharyne Michell, Martina Tazzioli, Karin Harreser Series: Conferences and Workshops By exploring the historically produced infrastructures, logistical systems, and their changing assemblages of actors that give these spaces their “afterlives,” the workshop sought to bring together empirical research on the scalar configurations of (im)mobility governance at the intersections of state, capital, and labor. Read more
Spaces and Traces of Containment Wed, 10.12.2025 - Wed, 10.12.2025 Speakers: Paolo Novak Ayşe ÇağlarLaura Guérin, Platon Issaias, Katharyne Michell, Martina Tazzioli, Karin Harreser Series: Conferences and Workshops By exploring the historically produced infrastructures, logistical systems, and their changing assemblages of actors that give these spaces their “afterlives,” the workshop sought to bring together empirical research on the scalar configurations of (im)mobility governance at the intersections of state, capital, and labor. Read more
	Un/Making Protection: The Proliferation of Temporary Protection Regimes Across Space and Time	Tue, 08.07.2025 - Tue, 08.07.2025	Conferences and Workshops	Diego Acosta Manuela Bojadžijev Ruslana Koziienko Ayşe ÇağlarVolha Biziukova, Irem Sengül, Leila Hadj Abdou, Kayi Esra, Lucie Macková, Sarah Knoll	Un/Making Protection: The Proliferation of Temporary Protection Regimes Across Space and Time Tue, 08.07.2025 - Tue, 08.07.2025 Speakers: Diego Acosta Manuela Bojadžijev Ruslana Koziienko Ayşe ÇağlarVolha Biziukova, Irem Sengül, Leila Hadj Abdou, Kayi Esra, Lucie Macková, Sarah Knoll Series: Conferences and Workshops The workshop examined the proliferation of temporary protection (TP) regimes in response to mass displacement since the post-Cold War era, focusing on cases such as the former Yugoslavia, the Venezuelan exodus, Syrians in Turkey, and Ukrainians in the EU. It aimed to critically explore common patterns of temporariness and uncertainty across these regimes and situate them within broader legal, political, and institutional contexts. Read more
Un/Making Protection: The Proliferation of Temporary Protection Regimes Across Space and Time Tue, 08.07.2025 - Tue, 08.07.2025 Speakers: Diego Acosta Manuela Bojadžijev Ruslana Koziienko Ayşe ÇağlarVolha Biziukova, Irem Sengül, Leila Hadj Abdou, Kayi Esra, Lucie Macková, Sarah Knoll Series: Conferences and Workshops The workshop examined the proliferation of temporary protection (TP) regimes in response to mass displacement since the post-Cold War era, focusing on cases such as the former Yugoslavia, the Venezuelan exodus, Syrians in Turkey, and Ukrainians in the EU. It aimed to critically explore common patterns of temporariness and uncertainty across these regimes and situate them within broader legal, political, and institutional contexts. Read more
	A Future-Oriented Humanism? Racism and Balibar’s Reinterpretation of Anthropological Differences	Mon, 23.06.2025	Seminars and Colloquia	Manuela Bojadžijev Ayşe Çağlar	A Future-Oriented Humanism? Racism and Balibar’s Reinterpretation of Anthropological Differences Mon, 23.06.2025 Speakers: Manuela Bojadžijev Ayşe Çağlar Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this Fellows Colloquium, Manuela Bojadžijev explored the possibility of a future-oriented humanism in the face of ongoing processes of dehumanization. She examined Étienne Balibar’s anthropology of differences, highlighting how his theory of racism and concept of the “genealogical schema” offer critical tools for understanding and resisting contemporary forms of exclusion and domination. Read more
A Future-Oriented Humanism? Racism and Balibar’s Reinterpretation of Anthropological Differences Mon, 23.06.2025 Speakers: Manuela Bojadžijev Ayşe Çağlar Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this Fellows Colloquium, Manuela Bojadžijev explored the possibility of a future-oriented humanism in the face of ongoing processes of dehumanization. She examined Étienne Balibar’s anthropology of differences, highlighting how his theory of racism and concept of the “genealogical schema” offer critical tools for understanding and resisting contemporary forms of exclusion and domination. Read more