Schedule

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Thursday 14th September

12:00- Welcome with lunch

1:00-14:30- Methodologies of/and Engagements:

Lurking as im/mobile engagement. A research protocol for observing mobile people’s online groups (Fabiola)

Being a Foreigner During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Researcher Positionality During Online Interviews (Aimi)

15:00- 16:30- Engaging (im)mobility

Choosing to Stay: Unpacking Immobility Amidst Adversity in Migration Studies (Ezenwa Olumba)

State-driven mobility: international academic mobility from the “Global South” (Leonardo)

Moving Publics and Private Spheres at the Margins: Homelessness in Times of Mobile Media (Vera)

17:00 Event - Handbook discussion/Manga launch/cultural event

Dinner at Cutlery Works

Friday 15th of September

10:00-10:30- Coffee Welcome

10:30 -12:00- ‘Connecting-with’ Mobilities

Navigating im/mobility: the challenges of conducting anthropological research in public transport environments (Chris and Sonja)

Women and mobility: understanding how gender shapes people-place interaction in the city of Delhi (Shivani)

NEXTPAT: South-South Skilled Mobilities Between Privilege and Precarity (Roger)

12:00-13:00- Lunch

13:00- 15:00- Mobilizing Ecologies- affects, animals and beyond

Exploring the Performative Assertions of Identity Among the Sylhetis: An Ethnographic Study of Migration History, Social Media Expressions, and Folklore (Antara)

Connecting, Co-Coping and Co-Hoping in the transnational space; Social Media and Social Cohesion among Ethiopian Transnational Migrant Workers in the UAE. (Saleh Sadem)

Mobilizing Grief: Shipibo-Konibos Grieving Practices on Facebook (Jennifer Sierra)

15:00-18:00 Afternoon workshops - thinking mobile in different observational modes

18:30- onwards Dinner and Drinks (TBC)

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