Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul Danish Institute for International Studies
Roskilde University Malmö University
MICS is a research network for studies on Migration, Identity, Communication, and Security as interdependent and increasingly crucial aspects of present-day societies. The networks third workshop will be held on May 4-5 at SRII, 2015, in cooperation with Ørecomm – Centre for Communication and Glocal Change, Roskilde University and Malmö University. The topic for the third seminar will be:
In the Aftermath of Gezi: From Social Movement to Social Change? Call for Papers: The previous seminar within the MICS Network was dedicated to migration (November 6-7, 2014). This time the MICS seminar is focused on communication. Together, migration and communication represent mobility at a physical as well as a psychological level. The concepts are routinely associated with dynamic processes. Media, and social media in particular, have for example played a pivotal role in the events in the Tahrir revolution as well as in the events at the Taksim Square in Istanbul. This seminar aims at analysing the Gezi events and its aftermath in a regional and global perspective, with specific focus on communication and media’s part in the social mobilization and transformation. As stated in the heading, the workshop will take place on May 4-5, 2015, at SRII, Istanbul, Turkey. The workshop will be cross - disciplinary in its scope, and seeks to involve senior as well as junior researchers. If you are interested in submitting a paper, please send an abstract and a brief CV to Project manager Marie Brobeck (brobeck@ruc.dk), and to Professor Hans-Åke Persson mailto:(hansp@ruc.dk)as soon as possible, and not later than March 15, 2015.
Greetings from MICS Network:
Cecilie Banke Hans-Åke Persson Bo Peterson Birgit Schlyter
And the guest organizers
Oscar Hemer (Malmö University) Thomas Tufte (Roskilde University)
________________________________________________________________________________ The general point of departure for the planned activities within the MICS frame is to form, consolidate and sustain a network for Nordic and Eurasian scholars within the humanities and the social sciences. More specifically, the rationale is to promote cooperation and scholarly advances within issues pertaining to Migration, Identity, Communication and Security in Eurasia. These four, closely intertwined, processes denote key societal challenges which scholars and practitioners alike will need to confront continuously within the foreseeable future. www.srii.se/mics