ETMU Days Pre-Conference for PhD students
Doctoral Programme in Social and Cultural Encounters, UEF
23-24 November 2022
University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu campus
Metria Building (Yliopistokatu 7), Rooms M106 & M107
Organisers of the 19th ETMU Days and the Social and Cultural Encounters Doctoral Programme (SCE) invite PhD students to participate in a pre-conference. The event gives PhD students from different universities in Finland and beyond an opportunity to present and discuss their draft work in a non-formal setting. The pre-conference and the optional evening programme also provide a good setting to meet other doctoral students.
The keynote lecture of the pre-conference is by Dr Aija Lulle from the Karelian Institute of the University of Eastern Finland. In her lecture, she will examine recent European migration to the London region, which has long been a magnet for migrants, through the narrated experiences of younger migrants from ‘old’ and ‘new’ EU member states. In the evening, the film Colour of the Sea: A Filmic Border Experience in Ceuta (2015) will be presented by Dr Keina Espiñeira from the Societies in Motion Research Team (ESOMI) at the Department of Sociology and Audiovisual Communication of the University of A Coruña (Spain). The collaborative film, which was nominated for a European Short Film Award, focusses on the African migrants on the border of the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on the coast of Morocco.
Please send your free-form registration by email to joni.virkkunen@uef.fi by Wednesday 9 November. The draft to be presented (paper, thesis chapter, etc.) should be sent by Wednesday, 14 November.
PROGRAMME
Wednesday, 23. November 2022
Room M106, Metria Building
12.00-13.00 Keynote lecture by Aija Lulle, Karelian Institute, UEF
Brexit and EU Migrants in London
13.00-13.30 Coffee
13.30-17.00 Student papers
Comments by Aija Lulle, Olga Tkach, Paul Fryer, Joni Virkkunen
19.00- Optional evening programme: Film Screening
Restaurant Kerubi, Siltakatu 1 (Ilosaari), 80100 Joensuu
Free and open also to other participants of EtmuDays conference!
The Colour of the Sea: A Filmic Border Experience in Ceuta (28 min.)
Introduction to the film and Q&A Discussion with Keina Espiñeira, Director & Scholar
The Colour of the Sea: A Filmic Border Experience in Ceuta (2015) focuses on the African migrants in the border of the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on the coast of Morocco. Instead of being a documentary, the film is a collaborative artwork made together with the migrants who succeed in despectaculizing the border. The film was nominated to the European Short Film Awards. The film is introduced by the Director. After the screening, we have an opportunity to ask questions about the filming process, science-filmographic and collaborative methodology, the situation at the Spain-Morocco border etc.
Keina Espiñeira is a scholar and artist. She isa Research Associate with the Societies in Motion research team (ESOMI), at the Department of Sociology and Audiovisual Communication of the University of A Coruña (Spain). Keina has participated in international research projects related to these borders and migration (ERC, Erasmus +, Erasmus Battuta and FP7). She has also been Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard University, and the Department of Geography at Université Cadi Ayyad Marrakech, and was also visiting scholar during her doctoral studies at the Nijmegen Centre for Border Research-Radboud University, Université Abdelmalek Essaâdi Tangier, and the University of California Berkeley.
The film was produced in the framework of the EUBORDERSCAPES (EU, FP7) project coordinated by the University of Eastern Finland.
Thursday, 24. November 2022 (if needed)
Room M107, Metria Building
9.30-11.30 Student papers (continued if necessary)
12.15 The 19th ETMU Days starts.
https://sites.uef.fi/mobilelives/programme/
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Dr Aija Lulle is a renowned migration scholar with extensive international research experience related to youth mobilities and life changes related to migration, as well as to geographies and spatialities of children, youth, families and ageing, across Europe. She is a Senior Researcher at the Karelian Institute of the University of Eastern Finland, but before joining the UEF, she worked at the University of Loughborough Geography Department (UK) and the University of Sussex (UK). She defended her PhD in Human Geography at the University of Latvia in 2014. The presentation is based on Lulle’s recent book Young EU migrants in London in the transition to Brexit (Lulle, Morosanu and King, 2022, Routledge).
Dr Keina Espiñeira is a director, scholar and artist. She holds a PhD in Political Conflict and Peace Processes and an MA in Documentary Cinema. Her research focusses on the politics of borders, migration and asylum in the Mediterranean region, having extensive field experience in the Strait of Gibraltar and at the Spanish-Moroccan border. She is interested in examining the contemporary transformations of borders into processes of socio-spatial ordering and the study of perceptions and representations of borders. Her artistic works are strongly research-oriented, involving anthropological fieldwork and collaborative audio-visual methodologies.
