06.06.2024 , in ((Experiences))
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Sara de Athouguia Filipe, Vestin Hategekimana, Anna Marino, Carol Pierre, Didier Ruedin, Mathis Schnell and Great Udochi
In the spirit of a hackathon, we, a team of researchers, launched an ambitious project to write a complete academic paper in a day. While facing challenges such as time constraints as well as difficulties in collaborative simultaneous writing, by the end of the day, we kind of succeeded in
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10.03.2021 , in ((COVID-19 + Early Career Academics, Experiences))
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Petra Sidler and Mia Gandenberger
There are two kinds of uncertainties we as researchers are faced with: There are those things we are aware of that we do not know, but also those we are unaware of that we do not know. Dealing with this range of uncertainties can be demanding in ‘normal’ times and
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17.02.2021 , in ((COVID-19 + Early Career Academics, Experiences))
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Kerstin Martel, Acil Abdul Hadi and Monique Raupp
What happens when you are researching a topic that is suddenly suspended and prone to alter fundamentally in the future? How are the early career prospects of mobility researchers and their sense of purpose when getting “stuck” and isolated in an unfamiliar place? While the “new normal” and its implications
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18.02.2020 , in ((Experiences, Politics, Practices))
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Lisa Marie Borrelli, Christina Mittmasser, Io Chaviara, Michalis Kastanidis and Anne-Claire Adet
Imagine living in a confined space, without a feeling of being “home” and being controlled by institutional actors. With this in mind, three filmmakers tackled the theme of encampment. They joined our recent discussion after the first “On the Mov(i)e” event, sharing their reflections on the conceptualization of encampment and
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14.01.2020 , in ((Experiences))
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Silvia Wojczewski
Descendants of international migrants have differing relations and connections to the country of their parents’ origin. Through the portraits of Aminata and her father Lansana – both Germans of Guinean origin, I studied the shifting meaning of “diaspora” for subsequent generations. The diasporic identity could be seen as disentangled from
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