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10/03/2023 11:03

Mobile Cultures and Societies: A Decade of Interdisciplinary Mobility Studies at the University of Vienna

Alexandra Frey Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Universität Wien

    Final Symposium of the Research Platform Mobile Cultures and Societies

    The Research Platform "Mobile Cultures and Societies: Interdisciplinary Studies on Transnational Formations" is pleased to announce that the final symposium "Mobile Cultures and Societies: A Decade of Interdisciplinary Mobility Studies at the University of Vienna" will take place on the 5th and the 6th of October 2023.

    We are glad to welcome Prof. Heidrun Friese as a keynote speaker! She will discuss the "Ambivalent Mobilities" on the 5th of October at 6 pm. On the second day of the symposium, doctoral students of the platform will present their preliminary research results. We will conclude the event with the panel discussion "Potentials and Challenges for Future Interdisciplinary Mobility Studies Research" at 4pm.

    Talks and keynotes will take place at Schreyvogelsaal. During the breaks we cordially invite the participants to refresh themselves at our buffet at Jura Soyfer-Saal.

    We kindly ask all participants to register for the symposium via the following link:
    https://veranstaltung.univie.ac.at/en/mobile-cultures-and-societies/

    Location: Schreyvogelsaal, Hofburg, Batthyanystiege 26, 1010 Vienna (Entrance Sisi Museum)


    Program:

    Thursday, October 5, 2023

    18.00: Welcoming Words

    Alexandra Ganser (Head of the Research Platform)
    Patrick Sakdapolrak (Deputy Head of the Research Platform)

    18.30: Keynote - Ambivalences of Mobility

    Speaker: Heidrun Friese (TU Chemnitz)
    Moderation: Patrick Sakdapolrak
    hybrid live streaming available on https://mobilecultures.univie.ac.at

    20.00: Reception - Jura Soyfer Saal

    Friday, October 6, 2023

    09.30: Check-in and Coffee

    10.00: Social Science Perspectives on Mobility Studies

    Im/Mobile Aspirations and Trajectories within the Context of the Uruguayan National Relocation Plan
    Jana Donat

    Between Eastern Province and Lusaka: Social and Spatial Im/Mobilities of Women in Zambia since the 1950s
    Daniela Atanasova

    The Impact of Translocal Social Remittances on the Environment in Morocco
    Rachael Diniega

    Investigating Gender Relations through Policy Im/Mobilities Lens. The Case of Financial Literacy Education in Austria
    Dovaine Buschmann

    Discussant: Edma Ajanovic
    Moderator: Birgit Sauer

    12.00: Lunch Break - Jura Soyfer Saal

    13.30: Humanities Perspectives on Mobility

    Mobilizing the Dead? De-Extinction and the Resurrection of Species
    Romana Bund

    Bewegter Stillstand im Werk Marlen Haushofers
    Nicola Kopf

    Archipelagic Poetics of Mobility in Contemporary Caribbean Poetry
    Barbara Gföllner

    Discussant: Heidrun Friese
    Moderators: Annegret Pelz and Thomas Macho

    15.30: Coffee Break - Jura Soyfer Saal

    16.00: Potentials and Challenges for Future Interdisciplinary Mobility Studies Research: Panel Discussion

    Petra Dannecker
    Kirsten Rüther
    Immanuel Harisch
    Barbara Maly-Bowie
    Nicola Kopf
    Rachael Diniega
    Moderator: Alexandra Ganser


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    transregional, national
    Scientific conferences
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