Winter School, University of T\u00fcbingen, 17\u201321 March 2014<\/p>\n
The entanglement of patterns of mobility and diversity of populations with state institutions and\u00a0policies has recently stimulated increased academic attention. Within different theoretical traditions,\u00a0this nexus has been conceptualized as \u201csocial engineering\u201d (K. Popper), \u201cbiopolitics\u201d (M. Foucault)\u00a0and \u201cscientification of the social\u201d (L. Raphael). Closely connected to this phenomenon is the thesis of\u00a0a \u201cdistant affinity\u201d (W. Schivelbusch) of different political regimes of population and diversity\u00a0management which can be traced back to the 19th century and continues to affect the present.\u00a0The winter school \u201cPopulation Management \u2013 State, Mobility and Diversity\u201d, that will take place at\u00a0the University of T\u00fcbingen from the 17\u201321 March, 2014, provides a forum for younger scholars to\u00a0present and discuss their recent research projects. The concept of \u201cpopulation management\u201d is\u00a0meant to facilitate comparative perspectives on a broad spectrum of state practices and institutions\u00a0dealing with mobility and diversity including their historical developments, legal foundations, ethical\u00a0legitimations, administrative and technical implementations, transfers of knowledge, marketing, and\u00a0societal impact. In this context it is considered to be particularly relevant to compare and discuss\u00a0different forms of regulation and deregulation, securitization, biopolitics, as well as the relationship\u00a0between intended and unintended consequences of state interventions into society. Following these\u00a0perspectives and issues, the winter school will open up a field of intersection between different\u00a0disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences and will allow for interdisciplinary exchange and\u00a0learning. Contributions from anthropology, cultural studies, history, sociology, and political sciences\u00a0are particularly invited. The historical focus of the winter school will be on the 19th, 20th, and 21st\u00a0century. The target groups are doctoral students, postdocs and advanced master students who want\u00a0to present, discuss, and develop their academic work. Contributions to the following fields of\u00a0research are welcome:<\/p>\n
(a)\u00a0Forced migration<\/b>: e.g. expulsion, deportation, resettlement, evacuation.<\/p>\n
(b)\u00a0Colonialism<\/b>: e.g. colonialisation and decolonialisation, missionary work, institutional racism.<\/p>\n
(c)\u00a0Borders, passports, registration<\/b>: e.g. border regimes, citizenship, asylum law, freedom of<\/p>\n
movement.<\/p>\n
(d)\u00a0Camps and regimes of residence<\/b>: e.g. reception camps, prison camps, internment camps,<\/p>\n
concentration camps, quarantine.<\/p>\n
(e)\u00a0Humanitarianism and welfare<\/b>: e.g. humanitarian interventions, care and pension policies,<\/p>\n
social welfare, donation campaigns, social housing projects.<\/p>\n
(f)\u00a0Hygiene<\/b>: e.g. health policies, eugenics, vaccination, epidemic, and disease control.<\/p>\n
(g)\u00a0Natality<\/b>: e.g. demography, fertility, family, and birth policies.<\/p>\n
(h)\u00a0Recruitment and employment<\/b>: e.g. labor market policies, regimes of labor migration, forced<\/p>\n
labor, slavery, army recruitment.<\/p>\n
(i)\u00a0Ethnic and religious minorities<\/b>: e.g. homogenization and diversity policies, integration,<\/p>\n
assimilation, affirmative action, multiculturalism.<\/p>\n
Key lectures in the framework of the winter school will be held by Laura Lee Downs (European\u00a0University Institute, Florenz\/\u00c9cole des Hautes \u00c9tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris), Nicholas de\u00a0Genova (King\u2019s College, London) and Svasti Trubeta (University of the Aegean, Mytilene). The\u00a0working sessions of the winter school will be tutored and moderated by internationally experienced\u00a0researchers with different disciplinary backgrounds. They include Carl Bethke (T\u00fcbingen), Mathias\u00a0Beer (T\u00fcbingen), Johannes Gro\u00dfmann (T\u00fcbingen), Thomas Etzem\u00fcller (Oldenburg), You Jae Lee\u00a0(T\u00fcbingen), Silke Mende (T\u00fcbingen), Boris Nieswand (T\u00fcbingen), Christian Promitzer (Graz), and\u00a0Darshan Vigneswaran (Amsterdam).<\/p>\n
The symbolic registration fee of 30 \u20ac includes accommodation in T\u00fcbingen, a reader, and an\u00a0excursion to Stuttgart. In exceptional and justified cases the fees can be waived. Traveling costs and\u00a0food must be covered by the participants.<\/p>\n