Spring 2025 Seminar Series

BROAD-ER Wednesday Seminar SeriesSpring 2025
Online ParticipationRegistration is required for all participants.
To Registerhttps://kocun.zoom.us/meeting/register/j1o4Sp4FRly8iHHCRm__1A#/registration
Registration is required for both online and in-person attendance of participants not affiliated with Koç University.

BROAD-ER Wednesday Seminar Series – Spring 2025

Online Participation All participants required to register via the zoom link below.

To Register https://kocun.zoom.us/meeting/register/j1o4Sp4FRly8iHHCRm__1A#/registration 

MiReKoc is pleased to invite all interested participants to join us for the Spring 2025 Wednesday Seminar Series, organized as part of the BROAD-ER Project.

This year’s Seminar Series brings together a group of distinguished researchers and stakeholders to discuss key themes of the BROAD-ER Project (Bridging the Migration and Urban Studies Nexus). BROAD-ER is an EC-funded Twinning Project, which is a collaboration between Koç University in Turkey, Pompeu Fabra University in Spain, and the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

We look forward to welcoming you to the Seminar Series!

SCHEDULE:

  • 05 MARCH: Juan Carlos Triviño Salazar (Pompeu Fabra University)

“Political Alignment and Local Crisis Response: Supporting Precarious Migrants in Spanish Municipalities during the COVID-19 Pandemic”

  • 19 MARCH*: Paladia Ziss (University of Bristol)

“Displacing Times: Borders, Time, and the Social Lives of Refugees Across Frankfurt and Istanbul”

  • 26 MARCH: Lorenzo Gabrielli (Pompeu Fabra University)

“The Border Spectacle at the EU borders: A Racialised and Gendered Crisification of Human Mobility Through Visual Narratives”

  • 09 APRIL*: Ayselin Yıldız (İstinye University & MiReKoc)

“Cities as Sanctuary for Displaced Populations through Placemaking Practices”

  • 30 APRIL: Aslı Salihoğlu (University of Oxford)

“Discretionary Formality: Selective Syrian Labor Formalization as a Migration Governance Strategy in Turkey”

  • 21 MAY*: Serdar Sayan (TOBB University of Economics and Technology)

“Movements of Migrant’s Remittances over Host and Home Country Business Cycles”

TIME:

ALL at 12:00 PM (TURKEY TIME) on WEDNESDAYS!

PARTICIPATION & REGISTRATION:

The Seminar Series will be available online via Zoom. The seminars marked (*) will be hybrid, both online (Zoom) and in person (SOS180F, MiReKoc office).

To participate in the Seminar Series, please register in advance via the following link:

https://kocun.zoom.us/meeting/register/j1o4Sp4FRly8iHHCRm__1A#/registration