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Belonging and Participation in the Nordic societies

Exploratory workshop organised by NordHOME
November 10-11, 2016, University of Turku, Finland​

This workshop seeks to question understandings of Nordic and national identities that rely on notions of homogeneity and to critically examine their effects on the lives of migrants and minorities. Moreover, it aims to open up discussions of how new understandings of belonging and forms of participation can be created in/through research, politics, activism and everyday encounters (in digital environments, city spaces, welfare practices etc.). How do​ migrants and minority organizations create spaces for participation in local, national and transnational politics? What kinds of notions of belonging and participation are created in policies, institutional practices and civil society mobilisations? How are power relations based on race, ethnicity, gender, class and sexuality negotiated in institutional encounters and social movement activities? How do discourses of societal security shape understandings of belonging and participation in the Nordic societies?

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Decolonizing Transgender in the North

4th Nordic Transgender Studies Symposium
The Centre for Gender Studies (CGF), Karlstad University
October 11 – 13, 2016.

The conference will be devoted to questions of decoloniality and its meaning for Trans Studies and trans politics. The conference will addresses a range of topics in relation to decolonisation among others, inner-nordic colonialisation of Sámi and Inuit, reflections on transgender terminologies, anglocentricity and cultural dissonances with the Scandinavian context. Furthermore intersections between transgender politics, ecology, race, nationalism and religion, mobility, border politics, migration and many more important discussions will feed into the debates and the presentations…

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Inside / Outside: Queer Networks in Transnational Perspective

Leibniz University of Hannover
September 12 -16, 2016

This summer school aims to bring together scholars and activists from Central and Eastern Europe with peers from the United States and scholars of North American Studies. It reflects on the current cultural, legal, and political conditions of representation, articulation, and critique in Central and Eastern European societies, focusing on the very varied responses to sexual diversity, including the academic establishment of gender and queer studies…

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3ª Muestra de CineMigrante de Barcelona

La 3° Edición de la Muestra Internacional de CineMigrante Barcelona, cine por la diversidad cultural, migración y derechos humanos se realizará en Barcelona del martes 12 de julio al domingo 17 de julio 2016, con entrada gratuita. A las proyecciones en sus sedes centrales se suma un itinerario de proyecciones al aire libre y cuatro encuentros o jornadas de debate junto a dos exposiciones fotográficas, intervenciones urbanas y talleres sobre defensa de derechos de las personas migrantes.

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Right to move / Libertad de movimiento

De fronteras internas y externas a colaboraciones, líneas de fuga y perspectivas
De 23 a 26 de mayo de 2016, Goethe Institut – Barcelona

Durante cuatro días presentaremos en el Goethe-Institut Barcelona conferencias performativas, ponencias y debates, proyecciones y documentación alrededor de los temas “Decolonizar el lenguaje”, “Líneas de fuga” y “Estrategias de trabajo en red”. Con “Decolonizar el lenguaje” queremos cuestionar el uso del lenguaje y la cultura como prácticas para re-organizar la sociedad y la política. En “Líneas de fuga” nos aproximamos a los movimientos migratorios actuales y a la continuidad de conflictos heredados del pasado colonialista. “Estrategias de trabajo en red” mostrará prácticas que resumen los puntos anteriores a través del ejemplo de proyectos positivos que presentan las perspectivas de un trabajo social y político nuevo.