PROGRAMME
Thursday 9th November 2017
13h15-13h45: Arrival and Registration
13h45-14h00: Words of Welcome – Andreas Mehler and Matthias Middell
14h00-14h45: “Protracted refugee situations and durable solutions” (Heidrun Bohnet, BICC)
Discussant: Andreas Mehler (ABI)
14h45-15h30: “Tracing migrants‘ trajectories. Towards an epistemological integration of the journey” (Anna Lipphardt, University of Freiburg)
Discussant: Matthias Middell (University of Leipzig)
15h30 -16h00: Coffee Break
16h00-16h45: “Challenges for comparing comprehensive migration policy across countries and regions” (Luicy Pedroza, GIGA)
Discussant: Christian von Lübke (ABI)
16h45 – 17h30: “Forced Immobility: Lessons from the Jordanian-Syrian Borderland” (André Bank, GIGA)
Discussant: Benjamin Schütze (ABI)
17h30-18h30: Roundtable – Lessons for Area Studies so far and Methodological Consequences
Panellists: Andreas Eckert, Elisio Macamo and Ute Rietdorf
Chair: Matthias Middell and Andreas Mehler
19h30: Joint Dinner
Friday 10th November 2017
09:00-09h45: “The Politics of EU-AU Migration Governance: From Rhetoric to Practice” (Franzisca Zanker, ABI)
Discussant: Ulf Engel (University of Leipzig)
09h45-10h30: Discussion on DFG Priority Programme “Transnational Studies” (Ulf Engel, University of Leipzig)
10h30 -11h00: Coffee Break
11h – 11h30: Final Discussions and Conclusion
11h30-12h30: Annual General Assembly
From 2 pm the Annual Conference of the African Law Society will start; all conference attendees welcome (please register)