{"id":1393,"date":"2026-04-28T16:43:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T13:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/ncsr2026\/?page_id=1393"},"modified":"2026-08-07T14:15:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T11:15:47","slug":"speakers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/ncsr2026\/speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.kb-table-of-content-nav.kb-table-of-content-id1393_80e7a6-cc .kb-table-of-content-wrap{padding-top:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-right:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-left:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);}.kb-table-of-content-nav.kb-table-of-content-id1393_80e7a6-cc .kb-table-of-contents-title-wrap{padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.kb-table-of-content-nav.kb-table-of-content-id1393_80e7a6-cc 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.kt-blocks-accordion-header.kt-accordion-panel-active{border-top-color:#BE530B;border-top-style:solid;border-right-color:#BE530B;border-right-style:solid;border-bottom-color:#BE530B;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-color:#BE530B;border-left-style:solid;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-accordion alignnone\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-wrap kt-accordion-id1393_24ade1-1e kt-accordion-has-2-panes kt-active-pane-0 kt-accordion-block kt-pane-header-alignment-left kt-accodion-icon-style-basic kt-accodion-icon-side-right\" style=\"max-width:none\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-inner-wrap\" data-allow-multiple-open=\"false\" data-start-open=\"none\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-1 kt-pane1393_976daa-f1\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">Bio<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PhD (Sociology of Religion), Associate Professor<br>Minority Studies, Institute for Cross Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Webpage:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/tors.ku.dk\/ansatte\/?pure=da\/persons\/43493\">Birgitte Schepelern Johansen \u2013 Ansatte \u2013 K\u00f8benhavns Universitet<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table><\/div>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Keynote 1: The&nbsp;art&nbsp;and ethics of listening&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scholarly work on&nbsp;people in&nbsp;marginalised or minoritised positions&nbsp;has often focused on speech, voice, and representation. Whether the topic is political recognition and participation of minorities; institutional and organisational engagements with diversity related to religion, ethnicity, or gender; teaching spaces and curriculum discussions; or interpersonal interactions around minority issues, attention has&nbsp;often&nbsp;been afforded to the expressive side of the coin: How are marginalised people, voices, and perspectives represented, politically and academically? Which forms of speech and which words are considered&nbsp;appropriate, supportive, damaging, or offensive? Who is allowed to speak about which topics, and under what conditions?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What has received comparatively less systematic attention\u2014conceptually and empirically\u2014is the other side of the coin: the practices of listening across minority\u2013majority divides and the obligations, responsibilities, and commitments this entails. Listening is a silent and&nbsp;largely invisible&nbsp;practice, yet a completely fundamental aspect of human sociality, without which any voice would be futile. How can listening be pursued as an object of scholarly, empirical inquiry within contexts of marginalisation and vulnerability? And how does this relate to, or tie in with, listening as an ethically charged aspect of our own academic enterprises?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this presentation, I explore these questions by drawing on the rich ethnographic work on listening produced by scholars of religion and bringing it into conversation with the philosophical engagements of Simone Weil and Sophie Bourgault on the ethics of attentive listening.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.kb-table-container1393_7913f3-48{overflow-x:auto;}.kb-table1393_7913f3-48 tr > *:nth-child(1){width:100%;}.kb-table1393_7913f3-48 tr > *:nth-child(2){width:50%;}.kb-table1393_7913f3-48{table-layout:fixed;width:100%;}.kb-table-container .kb-table1393_7913f3-48 th{padding-top:var(--global-kb-spacing-xxs, 0.5rem);padding-right:var(--global-kb-spacing-xxs, 0.5rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-xxs, 0.5rem);padding-left:var(--global-kb-spacing-xxs, 0.5rem);text-align:center;}.kb-table-container .kb-table1393_7913f3-48 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class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">Bio<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nando Sigona is&nbsp;Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and&nbsp;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&nbsp;the&nbsp;Global Migration and Social Change book series by Bristol University Press. His research interests include: the migration and citizenship nexus; undocumented migration;&nbsp;naturalisation,&nbsp;denaturalisation&nbsp;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\u2019s special issues including Becoming Adult on the Move (with Chase and Chatty, 2023), The Oxford Handbook of Superdiversity (with&nbsp;Meisnner&nbsp;and&nbsp;Vertovec, 2022) Undocumented Migration (with Gonzales, Franco and Papoutsi, 2019); Unravelling Europe\u2019s \u2018migration crisis\u2019 (with Crawley,&nbsp;Duvell, Jones, and McMahon, 2017), Within and beyond citizenship (with Roberto G. Gonzales, 2017), The Oxford Handbook on Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (with&nbsp;Fiddian&nbsp;Qasmiyeh, Loescher and Long, 2014), and Sans Papiers. The social and economic lives of undocumented migrants (with Bloch and Zetter, 2014). He is&nbsp;a&nbsp;Senior&nbsp;Research Associate at ODI and&nbsp;held&nbsp;visiting research and teaching positions at the Universities of Oxford, Bergen, UM6P Rabat, Utrecht, and the European University Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Webpage:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/staff\/profiles\/social-policy\/sigona-nando\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/staff\/profiles\/social-policy\/sigona-nando\">Nando Sigona \u2013 University of Birmingham<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table><\/div>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Keynote 2: The&nbsp;irregularisation&nbsp;of migration and migrants in Europe: policies,&nbsp;narratives&nbsp;and experiences&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Across Europe, political discourse frames \u201cirregular migration\u201d as an external threat: a problem of unlawful entry to be managed through stronger borders, tighter controls, and more restrictive migration policies. From higher visa fees to shorter permits and intensified enforcement, the policy response is remarkably consistent. Yet this framing obscures a more fundamental question: what if irregular migration is not a failure of the system, but one of its outcomes?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This paper challenges the dominant narrative by advancing&nbsp;a different perspective&nbsp;&#8211; one that understands irregularity as systematically produced through the very policies designed to prevent it. Drawing on comparative research conducted in Finland, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and the United Kingdom, I examine how legal status is shaped through the interaction of immigration rules,&nbsp;labour&nbsp;market regulation, and welfare systems. These intersecting regimes create conditions in which migrants are&nbsp;irregularised.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The analysis further highlights the role of political and media narratives in reinforcing this process. By constructing certain groups as \u201cundeserving,\u201d \u201cdangerous,\u201d or \u201cillegal,\u201d these narratives&nbsp;legitimise&nbsp;restrictive policies while obscuring their role in producing the very conditions they claim to address.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By&nbsp;reframing&nbsp;irregular migration as a policy outcome rather than an external anomaly, the paper calls for a fundamental rethinking of migration governance. It&nbsp;argues for&nbsp;approaches that move beyond deterrence and&nbsp;control, and&nbsp;instead address the structural drivers of irregularity embedded within contemporary legal and political systems.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Panel Discussion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The panel discussion focuses on the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/ncsr2026\/theme\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/ncsr2026\/theme\/\">theme of the conference<\/a> and brings together four young researchers. The panelists reflect on their experiences of methodology and research approaches and the thoughts and ideas the conference has inspired. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Moderators:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/researchportal.helsinki.fi\/en\/persons\/titus-hjelm\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/researchportal.helsinki.fi\/en\/persons\/titus-hjelm\/\">Titus Hjelm<\/a> (University of Helsinki)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/donnerinstitute.fi\/en\/sofia-sjos-research\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/donnerinstitute.fi\/en\/sofia-sjos-research\/\">Sofia Sj\u00f6<\/a> (The Donner Institute).&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Panelists:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/research.abo.fi\/fi\/persons\/linda-annunen\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/research.abo.fi\/fi\/persons\/linda-annunen\/\">Linda Annunen<\/a> (\u00c5bo Akademi University &amp; University of Turku)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uu.se\/en\/contact-and-organisation\/staff?query=N14-1441\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.uu.se\/en\/contact-and-organisation\/staff?query=N14-1441\">Evelina Lundmark<\/a> (Uppsala University)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mau.se\/en\/persons\/douglas.mattsson\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mau.se\/en\/persons\/douglas.mattsson\/\">Douglas Mattsson<\/a> (Malm\u00f6 University)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/researchportal.helsinki.fi\/en\/persons\/teemu-pauha\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/researchportal.helsinki.fi\/en\/persons\/teemu-pauha\/\">Teemu Pauha<\/a> (University of Helsinki)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keynotes Keynote 1: The&nbsp;art&nbsp;and ethics of listening&nbsp; Scholarly work on&nbsp;people in&nbsp;marginalised or minoritised positions&nbsp;has often focused on speech, voice, and representation. 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