Keynote Speakers
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Professor Birgitte Schepelern Johansen |
Professor Nando Sigona, FAcSS |
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PhD (Sociology of Religion), Associate Professor |
University of Birmingham |
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In my work, I explore the formation, representation and management of differences (in particular religious differences) in context characterized by asymmetric power relations. Empirically, my research has focused on: i) the secular state and secular culture as the context for understanding the life of religious minorities ii) the role of knowledge production in the formation and governance of Muslim minorities, and iii) political responses to islamophobia, xenophobia and racism with a special focus on the political management of hostile emotions. These empirical investigations have always been tied together by a thematic and theoretical interest in how differences (be they religious, ethnic, cultural, linguistic, moral or otherwise) become socially visible and are made politically relevant on the backdrop of particular norm-systems and within certain institutional framings. One such institutional framing is obviously the secular university as a site for education as well as for academic knowledge production, and it is a continuous project for me to ponder the methodological implications and ethical entanglements of doing research with people in minoritized, marginalized or vulnerable positions from within this institution. Webpage: Birgitte Schepelern Johansen – Ansatte – Københavns Universitet |
Nando Sigona is Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity at the University of Birmingham, UK. Nando is a founding editor of the peer-reviewed journal Migration Studies (Oxford University Press) and lead editor for the Global Migration and Social Change book series by Bristol University Press. His research interests include: the migration and citizenship nexus; undocumented migration; naturalisation, denaturalisation and statelessness; Romani politics and anti-Gypsyism; asylum and EU; Brexit and intra-European mobility; and child and youth migration. His work has appeared in a range of international academic journals, including Sociology, Social Anthropology, Antipode, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Identities, Citizenship Studies, International Migration Review, Comparative Migration Studies, The Sociological Review, JCMS, and Ethnic and Racial Studies. He is author or editor of books and journal’s special issues including Becoming Adult on the Move (with Chase and Chatty, 2023), The Oxford Handbook of Superdiversity (with Meisnner and Vertovec, 2022) Undocumented Migration (with Gonzales, Franco and Papoutsi, 2019); Unravelling Europe’s ‘migration crisis’ (with Crawley, Duvell, Jones, and McMahon, 2017), Within and beyond citizenship (with Roberto G. Gonzales, 2017), The Oxford Handbook on Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (with Fiddian Qasmiyeh, Loescher and Long, 2014), and Sans Papiers. The social and economic lives of undocumented migrants (with Bloch and Zetter, 2014). He is a Senior Research Associate at ODI and held visiting research and teaching positions at the Universities of Oxford, Bergen, UM6P Rabat, Utrecht, and the European University Institute. |
