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Program

Below you'll find the program for the online mini conference "Migration and Discipline: Civic Fostering of Gender, Sexuality, and the Body". The conference is held at the University of Gothenburg, January 27-28, 2022.

Day 1: January 27

Time

 

 

Chair: Andrea Spehar

9:00–9:15

Welcome/short introduction

9:15–10:15

Keynote: Nadine El-Enany
“But they are good citizens!”: How the Windrush scandal masked the violence of the British Empire and immigration control

10:15–10:25

BREAK

 

Chair: Kristine Køhler Mortensen

10:25–10:55

Katharina Kehl
The Right Kind of Queer: Race, Sexuality, and Gender in Contemporary Constructions of Swedishness

10:55–11:25

Mia Liinason
‘The loved home’ and other exclusionary care discourses. An analysis of heteroactivist resistances to gender, sexual and migrant rights in Sweden

11:25–12:45

LUNCH BREAK

 

Chair: Tommaso M. Milani

12:45–13:15

Diana Mulinari
The category of migrant mothers: a problem, a burden, a threat and a suffering object

13:15–13:45

Digital socializing

13:45–14:00

BREAK

 

Chair: Tommaso M. Milani

14:00–15:00

Keynote: David A.B. Murray
Queer Refugees and the Re/Organization of Homonationalist Discourses

 

Chair: Kristine Køhler Mortensen

Day 2: January 28

Time

 
 

Chair: Kristine Køhler Mortensen

09:00–10:00

Keynote: Jaana Vuori
This is Finland. Looking at migrant integration from the perspective of societal knowledge making and gender

10:00–10:10

BREAK

 

Chair: Andrea Spehar

10:10–10:40

Guðbjörg Ottósdóttir & Linda Sólveigar Guðmundsdóttir
Queer refugees in queer utopias: Inclusions and exclusions

10:40–11:10

Tommaso Milani, Simon Bauer, Andrea Spehar & Kerstin von Brömssen
In the name of the state? Femonationalism and civic orientation for newly arrived migrants in Sweden

 

11:10–11:20

BREAK

 

Chair: Tommaso M. Milani

11:20–11:50

Kristine Køhler Mortensen
Teaching “Danish sexual morals”: Mobilizing ideas of national sexuality in civic education for asylum seekers

11:50–13:00

LUNCH

 

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Chair: Tommaso M. Milani

13:00–13:30

Business meeting for keynotes, presenters, and organizers

13:30–13:45

BREAK

 

Chair: Tommaso M. Milani

13:45–14:45

Keynote: Thomas Wimark
Domesticizing sexual orientation and gender identity asylum seekers and refugees

14:45–15:00

Summing up and farewell