On 22 April 2015 there will be a public discussion about asylum seekers in Thuringia and the local district of Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis. It will take place in Mühlhausen (my hometown) and I am very happy to participate with a talk about the international situation of refugees.
Annual Conference of the Platform civil Conflict Management The annual conference of the the Platform civil Conflict Management (Plattform für zivile Konfliktbearbeitung) will focus on refugees. The event is co-organized with the Netzwerk Flüchtlingsforschung (which I represent) and ProAsyl. It take place 16 – 18 April 2015 in Bad Boll, Germany. Further…
CfP: Panel “Gender, Violence and Refugee Communities”, ECAS 2015 8-10 July 2015 in Paris, deadline: January 9, 2015. For many refugees, the end of conflicts does not coincide with the end of violent assaults but escaping war and repression only offers a certain degree of shelter from physical and structural…
Research Ethics in Forced Migration & Refugee Studies On 11 June 2014, the Young Scholars Conference of the annual VAD conference takes place in Bayreuth which includes a panel discussion on Research Ethics (and Academic Integrity). In this context, I speak about “Research Ethics in Refugee Studies. Examples of Ethnographic Research…
Interdisciplinary Lecture Series On 08 May 2014, I participate in the interdisciplinary lecture series “Natur-Räume: Aneignungen, Transformationen und Neuinterpretationen in Religion, Kultur und Gesellschaft” (Nature-Spaces: Adoptions, Transformations and Reinterpretations in Religion, Culture and Society) at the University of Marburg, doing a presentation about “Refugee Settlements as Living and Protection Spaces? Based on the Example…
Literature Overview Together with Elisabeth Schmidt, I recently developed an Overview of Research Literature and Reports about Violence against and amongst Refugees with a Focus on Sexual and Gender-based Violence which is accessible here
Field Research in Uganda From February until the end of April, I will be in Uganda to conduct field research at Kyaka II refugee settlement for the research project “Gender Relations in Confined Spaces. Conditions, Scope and Forms of Violence against Women in Conflict-related Refugee Camps“. I will respond to emails as…
Public Debate, GIZ, Bonn, Germany 13. GIZ-Event Research meets Practice: Displacement – Conflicts – Peace In 2012, around 23,000 persons daily were displaced because of violent conflicts, prosecution or human rights violations. According to the UN special agency for refugees UNHCR more than 45 million refugees worldwide were forced…
