Being Outside Afghanistan | Programme

Being outside Afghanistan

An interdisciplinary workshop exploring everyday experiences of social becoming, self‐construction and resource mobilisation among Afghans abroad

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Day 1: Thursday 28th July, 2016

09.00	Registration
09.30	Welcome: Zuzanna Olszewska, Esra Kaytaz, Carolin Fischer
10.00 – 11.00	Keynote address: Alessandro Monsutti Homo itinerans: Afghanistan, a transnational anthropology of politics
11.00 – 11.30	Coffee break
11.30 – 13.00	Session 1: Aspirations, agency and engagements Giulia Scalettaris Yearning for Europe: Solidarity and competition among Afghans Carolin Fischer and Marieke van Houte Agents of change?: Exploring dimensions of agency in home country relationships of Afghan migrants and return migrants Morwari Zafar COIN-operated anthropology: The U.S. counterinsurgency (COIN) campaign in Afghanistan and the rise of the Afghan-American diaspora Discussant: Nicholas Van Hear
13.00 – 14.00	Lunch
14.00 – 15.30	Session 2: Beyond networks: Friendship, kinship, travel and social life Esra Kaytaz Social-positioning as risk management: Sociality in the everyday lives of Afghan migrants and refugees in Turkey Thomas Wide Outside insiders: Two Afghans abroad in the early 20th century Liza Schuster Making friends: Afghan migrants and their supporters Discussant: Ceri Oeppen
15.30 – 16.00	Coffee break
16.00 – 17.30	Session 3: Imagined futures and transitions into adulthood Elaine Chase ‘Anywhere but Afghanistan’: Unaccompanied Afghan young people’s experiences of imagining and constructing futures as they ‘become adult’ in the UK and beyond Nassim Majidi The role of education in shaping migration aspirations among Afghans Marjan Wardaki The Afghan students of interwar Germany: Transnational connections between Afghanistan and Germany, 1919-1945 Discussant: Sneha Krishnan
17.30 – 18.00	Drinks Reception

Day 2: Friday 29th July, 2016

09.00 – 10.00	Keynote address: Kristian Berg Harpviken Conflict and migration, migration and conflict: Afghan patterns of mobility and mobilisation
10.00 – 10.30	Coffee break
10.30 – 12.00	Session 4: Political mobilisation and politics of belonging Robert Crews Piety in motion: Religious authority and nationhood among Afghan Shia migrants Melissa Kerr Chiovenda The Hazara diaspora in Athens, Greece: Cultural mediators in a crisis Khadija Abbasi The Republic of Silence: An imagined community of Hazaras in diaspora Discussant: Zuzanna Olszewska
12.00 – 13.00	Lunch
13.00 – 15.00	Closing session: Roundtable on the policy role of scholars of Afghan migration
15.00 – 16.30	Special event: Screening of 'Welcome to Paristan' (2016; directed by Mohamad Reza Sahibdad and Bastien Ferré; 73 min.).