Reminder: MeDiMi Conference in May 2026

The final conference of MeDiMi’s first research phase is coming up:

“Humanrightization in Migration Societies: Conditions, Forms, Consequences”

Date: May 7–8, 2026

Location: Justus Liebig University Giessen

In 2022, the MeDiMi project set out to develop an empirically based theory of discursive practice in migration-related conflicts. Our goal was to better understand the role of human rights as a contested normative resource in contemporary migration societies.

Drawing on almost four years of intensive research and on debates initiated at the MeDiMi Conference 2024, the 2026 conference will present and discuss key theoretical and empirical findings from our ongoing work. It will bring together MeDiMi researchers and external scholars from different disciplines who work on the intersection of human rights and migration.

Researchers from law, social sciences, and the humanities at all career stages and of all backgrounds are warmly invited to join us. A Call for Papers and full conference announcement will be released in January 2026.

The current state of our theory development can be found in the MeDiMi Working Paper No. 2: MeDiMi views this paper as an invitation to comment on our work; critical assessments and creative observations are greatly appreciated.