Events

Seminars, Workshops, Conferences & Panels

12 February 2021: Collaborative Online Reading Seminar “Ethnographic methodologies in/on migration infrastructures” with Johan Lindquist (Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, Sweden). Organized by: Lieke van der Veer.

23 November 2020: Panel “Care, control and resistance. The spatial politics of migrant solidarity” at the Transmobilities Webinar Series “Grounding Mobilities? Discussing the Role of Place, Locality and Immobility in Transnational Migration Studies”. Speakers: Dr. Céline Cantat (Central European University), Dr. Leonie Ansems de Vries (King’s College London), and Dr. Marta Welander (University of Westminster). Organizers & Convenors: Lieke van der Veer (Radboud University) and Robin Vandevoordt (Ghent University).

12 December 2019: International Seminar “The dynamics of authority: anthropological views of the state, sovereignty and political community” with Cris Shore (Goldsmiths University of London) and Trevor Stack (University of Aberdeen), Radboud University Nijmegen. Organized by: Toon van Meijl and Martijn Koster.

2 December 2019: International Workshop “Brokering Governance: Enacting Grey Zones in Public Policy” with Matías Dewey (Köln), Sara de Jong (York), Martijn Koster (Radboud), Romain Le Cour Grandmaison (Noria Research), Wil Pansters (Utrecht) and Trevor Stack (Radboud Excellence Initiative Visiting Professor), Radboud University Nijmegen. Organized by: Martijn Koster, Trevor Stack and Pien Kuipers.

27-31 August 2019: Panel “Urban struggles: governance, resistance and solidarity” at IUAES Inter-Congress “World Solidarities”, Poznan, Poland. Convenors: Flávio Eiró (Radboud University Nijmegen), Insa Koch (London School of Economics), Raúl Acosta (University of Konstanz). Discussant: Martijn Koster (Radboud University Nijmegen).

13-15 March 2019: International Conference “Brazilian Politics, Policies and Citizenship: Anthropological Perspectives on Current Challenges”, Radboud University Nijmegen. Organized by: Flávio Eiró, Martijn Koster, Pien Kuipers, & Sven da Silva.

4-5 June 2018: International conference “Global(izing) cities: Governance, belonging and violence”, Radboud University Nijmegen. Organized by: Tine Davids & Martijn Koster.

16-20 May 2018: Panel “A contrapuntal anthropology of politics: Engaging formally and informally with ‘the political’” at CASCA conference “Contrapunteo”, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. Convenors: Martijn Koster & Flávio Eiró.

20-21 November 2017: International Academic Workshop “Participation, residents’ initiatives and informal politics: Urban governance and the changing state in/of the city” Radboud University Nijmegen. Organized by: Flávio Eiró, Martijn Koster & Sven da Silva.

22 May 2017: CAOS Seminar “The Inconsistent City, Participatory Planning, and the Part of No Part in Recife, Brazil” with Pieter de Vries (Wageningen University), Radboud University Nijmegen.

2-7 May 2017: Panel “Moving beyond the formal/informal dichotomy: Implications for governance” at CASCA-IUAES conference “Mo(u)vement”, Ottawa, Canada. Convenors: Alan Smart & Martijn Koster.