Detailed Program
Here you will find details on all sessions. This website will be updated regularly to provide you with the latest information. For a quick overview, you can find the conference flyer in pdf format here.
Last update: 18.09.24
Wed, Sept 18, 2024
Session A
Format: Opening Keynote
“The State of the Human Rights of Migrants in Europe”
Time: 17:00–18:30
Location: Bar Menachem Hörsaal (HS 5)
Speaker: Maximilian Pichl, RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, Wiesbaden
Chair: Susanne Buckley-Zistel, MeDiMi Researcher, Philipps University Marburg
Thu, Sept 19, 2024
Session B
Format: Roundtable
“Human Rights Movements in Migration Societies: Experiences and Practices”
Time: 09:00–10:30
Location: Bar Menachem Hörsaal (HS 5)
Speakers:
- Nele Allenberg, German Institute for Human Rights, Berlin
- Bernd Kasparek, Delft University of Technology and Transforming Solidarities, Berlin
- Michele LeVoy, PICUM, Brussels
Chair: Jürgen Bast, MeDiMi Researcher, Justus Liebig University Giessen
[ 10:30–11:00 Coffee break ]
Session C
Format: Parallel Panels
Time: 11:00–12:30
Panel C1: Doctrinal Struggles
Location: Seminarraum 44
Panelists:
- Carmelo Danisi, University of Bologna: “What Role for International Human Rights Law in the Protection Against Ethnic and Religious Profiling?”
- Kathrin Hamenstädt, University of Birmingham: “Human Rights for All or a Different Standard for Migrants?”
- Marei Pelzer, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences: “Refugee Protection in Cases of Gender-based Persecution: A New Human Rights Approach of the ECJ?”
Chair: Leon Züllig, MeDiMi Researcher, Justus Liebig University Giessen
Panel C2: Diaspora Experiences
Location: Seminarraum 43
Panelists:
- Alicja Polakiewicz, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg: “Enforcing Human Rights of Migrated Survivors via International Crimes Prosecutions in Germany: An Instrumental Argument”
- Christina Pesch, Research Assistant at Landtag NRW, Farida Global e.V., and Stop Mutilation Deutschland e.V.; Michaela Zöhrer, University of Augsburg: “Bringing Human Rights (Back) to Life: Diaspora Activism in Germany and Academic Allyship”
- Amany Moussa Selim, Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR): “When Mobilizing Under Repression Can Teach you ‘a Hundred Things’: Examining the Roots of Multifaceted Engagement Among Syrian Activists in Berlin
Chair: Mina Ibrahim, MeDiMi Researcher, Philipps University Marburg
Panel C3: Activist Practices
Location: Seminarraum 45
Panelists:
- Jordan Dez, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam: “Undocumented Migrant Activism as Human Rights-making Practice"
- Anna Fazzini, University of Naples L’Orientale; Arianna Grasso, University of Naples L’Orientale: “Border Externalisation, Human Rights, and Digital Resistance: A Multidimensional Analysis of Refugees' Twitter Activism in Australia"
- Marco Perolini, London School of Economics and Political Science: “Migrant Activism and Human Rights: Tools for Social Change?”
Chair: Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, MeDiMi Researcher, Goethe University Frankfurt
Panel C4: Latin American Experiences
Location: Seminarraum 021 (Altbau)
Panelists:
- Rita Lages de Oliveira, University of Chile, Santiago de Chile: “International Migration in the Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court and the Court of Human Rights: A Jurisprudential Dialogue in the Making”
- María Gabriela Trompetero Vicent, Bielefeld University: “Paradigm Shift? How a Migrant Security Institution Incorporated a Rights Perspective Into its Logic: The Case of Colombia”
- Marcia A. Vera Espinoza, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh: "Human Rights and Refugee Protection in Latin America: Exploring the Tensions between Care and Control in Forced Displacement"
Chair: Giulia Santomauro, Associated MeDiMi Researcher, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa
[ 12:30–14:00 Lunch break ]
Session D
Format: Roundtable
“Human Rights Law in Migration Societies: Migrants’ Rights before the Courts”
Time: 14:00–15:30
Location: Bar Menachem Hörsaal (HS 5)
Speakers:
- Anuscheh Farahat, University of Vienna
- Hanaa Hakiki, ECCHR, Berlin
- Mario Savino, Tuscia University, Viterbo
Chair: Janna Wessels, MeDiMi Researcher, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
[ 15:30–16:00 Coffee break ]
Session E
Format: Parallel Panels
Time: 16:00–17:30
Panel E1: Trends in Jurisprudence
Location: Seminarraum 44
Panelists:
- Alan Desmond, University of Leicester: “State Sovereignty and International Migrants’ Rights in Europe: Plus ça Change, Plus c’est la Même Chose?”
- Ben Hudson, University of Exeter: “Asylum and Vulnerability at the European Court of Human Rights”
- Jonathan Kiessling, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg: “Proceduralization as Humanrightization: Recent ECtHR Expulsion Case Law and the Doctrinal Struggle for a Procedural Frame"
Chair: Mónica Ávila Currás, MeDiMi Researcher, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Panel E2: Health & Work
Location: Seminarraum 43
Panelists:
- Marie Diekmann, German Institute for Human Rights, Berlin: “Human Rights in Business: The Case of Migrant Workers”
- Anna Kompatscher, Europa-Universität Flensburg: “The Right to Healthcare for Undocumented Migrants in France, Germany and Italy"
- Oumaima Ramdani, Mohammed V University, Rabat: “Migrants’ Right to Health in Morocco: Will and Reality”
Chair: Maik Paap, MeDiMi Researcher, Justus Liebig University Giessen
Panel E3: Imaginaries of Migration
Location: Seminarraum 021 (Altbau)
Panelists:
- Ester Minga, Portuguese Catholic University, Lisbon: “Humanity Through the Portuguese Gaze: Mediated Emotions, Colonial Imagery, and Populism Phenomena”
- Daniela Peruzzo, Essex University: “The Victim, the Saviour, and the Persecutor: A Jungian Informed Discourse Analysis on the 'Diciotti Case'"
Chair: Benjamin Bunk, MeDiMi Researcher, Justus Liebig University Giessen
Panel E4: Ethics of Rights
Location: Seminarraum 45
Panelists:
- Hannah Katz, University of Haifa: “The Ethical Dimensions of Migrant Rights Lawyering at Europe’s External Borders”
- Stefania Maffeis, University of Applied Sciences for Social Work, Education and Nursing, Dresden: “Human Rights on the Move: The Idea of a Right to Have Rights in Political Theories of Migration and in Solidarity Cities of Europe”
Chair: Tasnim Jabaly, MeDiMi Researcher, Philipps University Marburg
[ 17:30–18:00 Coffee break ]
Session F
Format: Roundtable
“What Does Democracy Mean in Migration Societies? Human Rights, Participation, and Solidarity”
Time: 18:00–19:30
Location: Bar Menachem Hörsaal (HS 5)
Speakers:
- Klaas Müller, Verfassungsblog, Berlin
- Hidaya Nampiima & Fanny van der Vooren, Here to Support, Amsterdam
- Elizabeth Ngari, Women in Exile, Potsdam
Chairs:
- Anna Arden, MeDiMi Researcher, Justus Liebig University Giessen
- Maria Hartmann, MeDiMi Researcher, Philipps University Marburg
[ From 19:30 Dinner and informal get-together at the venue ]
Fri, Sept 20, 2024
Session G
Format: Plenary Panel
“The Making of Human Rights Consciousness in Migration Societies”
Time: 09:00–10:30
Location: Bar Menachem Hörsaal (HS 5)
Speakers:
- Aghogho Akpome, University of Zululand: “Human Rights during the European Refugee ‘Crisis’: An Analysis of Selected Texts and Personal Accounts”
- Andrea Fritsche, University of Innsbruck: “Spaces for Rights Consciousness within the Everyday of Asylum Seeking”
- Joachim Savelsberg, University of Minnesota: “Migrant NGOs as Actors and Narrators in Human Right Trials”
Chair: Greta Olson, MeDiMi Researcher, Justus Liebig University Giessen
[ 10:30–11:00 Coffee break ]
Session H
Format: Parallel Panels
Time: 11:00–12:30
Panel H1: Framing of Rights
Location: Seminarraum 44
Panelists:
- Jens T. Theilen, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg: “Framing Migration in Human Rights”
- Barbara von Rütte, University of Basel: “The Right to Have Rights? A Human Right to Citizenship in a Migration Context”
- Catharina Ziebritzki, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg: “Human Rights and Exceptionalism in European Migration Law”
Chair: Frederik von Harbou, MeDiMi Researcher, University of Applied Sciences Jena
Panel H2: Politics of Rights
Location: Seminarraum 45
Panelists:
- Lisa Marie Borrelli, University of Applied Science HES-SO Valais-Wallis: “Permanent Temporariness as a Return-Based Approach: Syrian Refugee Integration or its Lack of it in the Neighboring Region”
- Marlene Joger, University of Bamberg: “Human Rights as a Source of Legitimacy? An Analysis of Human Rights Narratives in Migration-related Discourse in the European Parliament”
- Lena Laube, University of Bonn: “What do the Ships Symbolize? Rationales and Motivations for Supporting Search and Rescue NGOs on the High Seas”
Chair: Laura Holderied, MeDiMi Researcher, Justus Liebig University Giessen
Panel H3: Knowledge Cultures of Rights
Location: Seminarraum 43
Panelists:
- Angélica Cocomá, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale): “Privilege and Vulnerability: Exploring the Human Rights Lexicon of High-Skilled Female Migrants”
- Maria-Artemis Kolliniati, Technical University of Darmstadt: “Interpreting Human Rights: Asylum Centers from Communitarianism to Egalitarian Liberalism”
- Angelika Poferl, Technical University of Dortmund: “‘Human Rights Culture’? Plural Dignities, Knowledge Cultures and the Existential Aesthetics of Human Rights”
Chair: Dariuš Zifonun, MeDiMi Researcher, Philipps University Marburg
[ 12:30–13:00 Lunch packages ]
Session I
Format: Concluding Keynote
“Research on Human Rights and Migration: The Way Forward”
Time: 13:00–14:30
Location: Bar Menachem Hörsaal (HS 5)
Speaker: Anuscheh Farahat, University of Vienna
Chair: Michael Knipper, MeDiMi Researcher, Justus Liebig University Giessen
