Looking forward to the Neuchâtel Graduate Conference 2023

The Neuchâtel Graduate Conference has become an international event for doctoral students and junior researchers in the field of migration and mobility. Over four hundred researchers have attended our conferences since 2017.

As the sixth edition of our conference is scheduled to take place at the University of Neuchâtel from 11 to 12 July 2023, its planning is already underway. We would, therefore, like to share with you some of our preliminary ideas.

The five previous editions have built a good reputation thanks to their collaborative atmosphere, as well as the interdisciplinary and constructive discussions between junior and senior researchers. For this year’s edition, we will continue to experiment with the format of the event, while preserving its distinguishing features.

We will again invite senior scholars from our International Advisory Board. These experts are invited to provide constructive feedback and guide young researchers in the publishing process. We will also continue to collaborate with other institutions, like the Swiss Subsaharan Africa Migration Network, and invite external participants to facilitate a dialogue beyond academia. We will also make sure that the conference serves as a platform to promote young female academics in line with our values.

The topic of this year’s Graduate Conference will be “Migration and Im/Mobility in Times of Entangled Crises: Concepts, Practices and Challenges.” Through this theme, we wish to encourage researchers to explore the construction and the impact of past, current or future crises on the public perception and the governance or the practices of migration and im/mobility, at different scales and across different contexts. As always, we wish to facilitate interdisciplinary debate. For this reason, we will welcome submissions from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, methodological and theoretical approaches.

In the meanwhile, you can stay up to date with information on the conference through the hashtag #neuchgradconf23 on Twitter.