Open MIS-Understandings
Debate Series
“Open MIS-Understandings” aims to make explicit and discuss critically conceptual and methodological foundations and understandings from different disciplinary perspectives in interdisciplinary collaborations.
This debate series is an initiative of the Key Research Area “MIS – Migration and Inclusive Societies” and an internal forum of the Faculty aiming to promote interdisciplinary exchange on central concepts of migration research. MIS brings together FHSE researchers from cultural studies and social science whose work deals with questions of migration and borders. The aim of “Open MIS-Understandings” is to make explicit and discuss critically conceptual and methodological foundations and understandings from different disciplinary perspectives in interdisciplinary collaborations.
Each session (1 hour) brings together at least two FHSE researchers who each present a particular concept against the background of their disciplinary perspectives. In the joint discussion, the different facets will be bundled and a broader as well as more differentiated understanding will be developed.
Session of Open MIS-Understandings: Identity
Tuesday, June 6, 2023
17h – 18h CEST
University of Luxembourg
Campus Belval, Maison des Sciences Humaines (MSH)
Meeting room of the Deanery | Floor M00, M025020
This Open MIS-Understandings session is dedicated to the notion of identity. Although of crucial importance for cultural and social studies, the concept of identity and its divers and shifting understandings in various scholarly fields are rarely systematically discussed. A conceptual reflection seems particularly important with regard to migration related research and public.
The Open MIS-Understandings is a multilingual series.
Speakers and discussants
Agnès Prüm (Senior Lecturer, Department of Humanities)
Isabelle Albert (Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences)
Organised by Elisabeth Boesen and Christian Wille on behalf of the Key Research Area MIS
Fourth Open MIS-Understandings-Session on Difference
Tuesday, December 13, 2022
17h – 18h CEST
University of Luxembourg
Campus Belval, Maison des Sciences Humaines (MSH)
Meeting room of the Deanery | Floor M00, M025020
This Open MIS-Understandings session is dedicated to the notion of difference. Although of crucial importance for cultural and social studies, the concept of difference and its divers and shifting understandings in various scholarly fields are rarely systematically discussed. A conceptual reflection seems particularly important with regard to migration related research and public.
The Open MIS-Understandings is a multilingual series.
Speakers and discussants
Sonja Kmec (Associate professor in history and cultural studies)
Dieter Heimböckel (Associate professor in German literature and interculturality)
Organised by Elisabeth Boesen and Christian Wille on behalf of the Key Research Area MIS
Third Open MIS-Understandings-Session on Difference
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
17h – 18h CEST
Webex-Session: https://unilu.webex.com/unilu-de/j.php?MTID=m435132f1bc71652ade24645bf1b7e417
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The third Open MIS-Understandings session is dedicated to the notion of difference. Although of crucial importance for cultural and social studies, the concept of difference and its divers and shifting understandings in various scholarly fields are rarely systematically discussed. A conceptual reflection seems particularly important with regard to migration-related research and the public.
Our speakers and discussants will be:
Dr. Till Dembeck (Associate professor in German Literature and Multilingual Philology)
Dr. Elke Murdock (Research scientist in Developmental and Cross-Cultural Psychology)
Organised by Elisabeth Boesen and Christian Wille on behalf of the Key Research Area MIS
Second Open MIS-Understandings-Session on Inclusion
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
17h – 18h CEST
Webex-Session: https://unilu.webex.com/unilu/j.php?MTID=m0c77001b769c4f37f0d3153ebe9f7679
In the second “Open MIS-Understandings” session, we continue focusing on the concept of “inclusion” or “inclusiveness” and explore this concept in greater depth. Following the renaming of the Key Area MIS (“inclusive societies”) this concept has led to lively debates. Its diverse and programmatic uses beyond academia and in different disciplines also show that there is a need for general clarification. In doing so, counter – concepts (“exclusion”, “unwanted inclusion”) can also be made productive.
Our speakers and discussants will be:
Dr. Carmen Zurbriggen, Associate professor in Inclusive Education and Learning Difficulties
Dr. Andrea Binsfeld, Associate professor in Classical Studies with a spatial focus on the Greater Region
Organised by Elisabeth Boesen and Christian Wille on behalf of the Key Research Area MIS.
First Open MIS-Understandings-Session on Inclusion
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
17h – 18h CEST
Webex-Session: https://unilu.webex.com/unilu/j.php?MTID=m53973b7df52f1b104d339e98dea4d82b
In the first “Open MIS-Understandings” session, we will focus on the concept of «inclusion» or «inclusiveness». Following the renaming of the Key Area MIS («inclusive societies») this concept has led to lively debates. Its diverse and programmatic uses outside of Academia also show that there is a need for general clarification. In doing so, antagonistic approaches/counter-concepts (“exclusion”, “unwanted inclusion”) can also be made productive.
Our speakers and discussants will be:
Dr. Harlan Koff, Political Scientist, Professor of Social Sciences and Migration Studies
Dr. Lukas Sosoe, Philosopher, Professor of Ethics and Political Legal Philosophy
Organised by Elisabeth Boesen and Christian Wille on behalf of the Key Research Area MIS.
