Migration, Time, and Temporality
International Conference
Programme
Thursday, 4 May 2023
13:00 Open Doors
13:40–14:00 Welcome
14:00–15:45 Working time
Chair: Anne Unterwurzacher
- Maria Adamopoulou: Fast forward: the Greek Gastarbeiter’s perceptions of time in their migration journeys 1960–1989
- Verena Lorber: "I didn’t think I would stay here this long". State and individual perspectives on the temporality of labor migration to Austria in the 1960s and 1970s
- Natasha Ružić/Katica Jurčević/Marina Perić Kaselj: The influence of temporal aspects of return migration and decision-making processes for Croatians living abroad on their potential for return
15:45–16:15 Coffee break
16:15–17:25 Epistolary time and the experience of migration
Chair: Mirjam Milharčič Hladnik
- Margarita Dounia: The multiple temporalities of migrant family letters: a case study from post-WWII Greece
- Miha Zobec: The family Guštin and its experience of temporalities between Argentina and the Italo-Yugoslav border
17:25–17:45 Coffee break
17:45–18:45 Keynote
Linn Axelsson: Borders as time-spaces of authority: The regulation of crossborder movements and rights
19:30 Conference Dinner
Friday, 5 May 2023
09:30–10:40 Temporalities of opportunityTemporalities of opportunity
Chair: Annemarie Steidl
- Hans Peter Hahn: The freedom of the migrant. Temporalities of mobile : The freedom of the migrant. Temporalities of mobile biographiesbiographies
- Mirjam Milharčič Hladnik: The contested future: the subjective perception of time and temporality among young migrants along the western Slovenian border 1947–1962
10:40–11:00 Coffee Break
11:00–12:45 Temporalities of exclusion: time as a foreign country
Chair: Oliver Kühschelm
- Marlene Müller-Brandeck: The temporal inclusion of refugees in societal docking sites: insights from sociotheoretical research project
- Anna Prashizky/Nir Cohen: "A desert city surrounded by mountains, where everything closes on Shabbat": second-generation Russian-speaking speaking migrants narrating the Israeli periphery
- Sebastien Tremblay: Erasing queerness through European time: coming to terms with the National Socialist past and the exclusion of queer migrants in 21st century Germany
12:45–14:00 Lunch
14:00–15:10 Heteronomous time – when time is not on your side
Chair: Aleksej Kalc
- Benedetta Fabrucci: A time of waiting: foreign refugees in Trieste’s transit camps in the 1950s
- Zoé Crine/Francesca Raimondo: "To me it’s just a stamp”: times, temporalities and shape of vulnerabilities in the Belgian asylum system
15:10–15:30 Round-up Discussion
Chair: Annemarie Steidl
In the early 2000s migration research expanded to embrace a broad conception of mobility that included short distances, circular movements, and no movement at all. This paradigmatic shift sparked interest in the myriad ways that time and temporality intersect with the experience and regulation of migration. The conference will pursue this line of inquiry and stimulate discussions between a diverse range of scholars active in the historical and social sciences.
The conference is the second of the series (Migration On New Paths, in Each Direction? The first conference has taken place last year at the University of Vienna and centred on Spaces and Locations of Migration.
The conference series is organized by:
- Research Network for Interdisciplinary Regional Studies first: Oliver Kühschelm (Centre for Historical Migration Research/IGLR), Anne Unterwurzacher (Ilse Arlt Institute for Social Inclusion Research/UAS St. Pölten )
- University of Vienna: Annemarie Steidl (Department of Economic and Social History)
- Slovenian Migration Institute ZRC SAZU (Scientific Research Centre at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts): Mirjam Milharčič Hladnik, Aleksej Kalc , Miha Zobec
For further information please contact Anne Unterwurzacher.
