Summer School 2023 Program
BROAD-ER International Summer School Program
17 – 28 July 2023
- Monday, July 17, 2023
10:00 – 10:30 – Welcome and Registration
10:30 – 11:00 – Welcoming Remarks by Prof. Ahmet İçduygu, Koç University
11.00 – 13.00 – Keynote Lecture by Prof. Loren Landau, University of Oxford
13:00 – 14:00 – Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 – Introducing MiReKoc and an overview of its research projects
15:00 – 17:00 – Lecture: Prof. Peter Scholten, Erasmus University Rotterdam
“Understanding the diversity of urban diversities”
17:00 – 19:00 – Dinner (Pizza night @ Kış Bahçesi)
- Tuesday, July 18, 2023 Bridging urban and migration governance research
09:30 – 10:30 – Lecture: Prof. Ayşe Çağlar, University of Vienna
“Situating urban and migration governance relationally”
10:30 – 11:00 – Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00 – Discussion
12:00 – 13:30 – Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 – Online Lecture: Prof. Thomas Faist, Bielefeld University
“Climate Destruction and Migration: The Transnationalized Socio-Ecological Question”
15:00 – 15:30 – Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:00 – Lecture: Aylin Yardımcı, Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, Foreign Relations
- Wednesday, July 19, 2023 Global challenges at the intersection of migration and urban governance & multiple crises in urban areas
09:30 – 10:30 – Lecture: Dr. Souad Osseiran, MiReKoc
“Urban refugee governance: Syrian refugees in case of Istanbul”
10:30 – 11:00 – Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00 – Discussion
12:00 – 13:30 – Lunch
13:30 – 14:30 – Lecture: Dr. Duygu Cihanger Ribeiro, Middle East Technical University
“Designing for all: The intersection of social justice and public space”
14:30 – 15:00 – Coffee Break
14:30 – 15:30 – Discussion
15:30 – 16:00 – Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:00 – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Training: Dr. Behice Pehlivan, Koç University, Gender Equality Coordinator
- Thursday, July 20, 2023 Beyond the national: The role of local actor constellations in governing migration in cities
09:30 – 10:30 – Lecture: Dr. Thomas Lacroix, Sciences Po Paris
“Migration and urban diplomacy in the Mediterranean”
10:30 – 11:00 – Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00 – Discussion
12:00 – 13:30 – Lunch
13:30 – 14:30 – Lecture: Prof. Rabia Karakaya Polat, Işık University
“Understanding local narratives and policies on Syrian refugees in Turkey”
14:30 – 15:00 – Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:00 – Discussion
16:00 – 16:30 – Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:30 – Thematic presentations
- Friday, July 21, 2023 Disasters in the cities and migration & Field trip
09:30 – 11:30 – Lecture: Önder Yalçın, Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality, Migration Office
“Right to the city for all in a time of crisis”
11:30 – Field trip
18:00 – Dinner
- Saturday, July 22, 2023
Free Day
- Sunday, July 23, 2023
Free day
- Monday, July 24, 2023 Building bridges across cities: Migration and city diplomacy
09:30 – 10:30 – Lecture: Dr. Janina Stürner-Siovitz, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg
“A new role for cities? City diplomacy in global migration governance”
10:30 – 11:00 – Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00 – Discussion
12:00 – 13:30 – Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 – Lecture: Prof. Ahmet İçduygu, Koç University
“On density, diversity, and democracy: A debate on metropolitanism and cosmopolitanism”
15:00 – 15:30 – Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:00 – Online Lecture: Dr. Melissa Kelly
“Cultivating Welcoming Small and Mid-Sized Cities”
- Tuesday, July 25, 2023 Local governance of migration: Autonomy-building of cities
09:30 – 10:30 – Lecture: Prof. Ricard Zapata Barrero, Pompeu Fabra University
“Urban resilience and migration governance: Setting a research programme”
10:30 – 11:00 – Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00 – Discussion
12:00 – 13:30 – Lunch
13:30 – 14:30 – Lecture: Dr. Ezgi Tuncer, Kadir Has University
“Urban life and everyday practices of middling transnationals in Istanbul”
14:30 – 15:00 – Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:00 – Discussion
16:00 – 16:30 – Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:30 – Thematic presentations
- Wednesday, July 26, 2023 Do-it-yourself urban migration governance
09:30 – 10:30 – Lecture: Prof. Jan Rath, University of Amsterdam
“Migrant entrepreneurship and state-led commercial gentrification”
10:30 – 11:00 – Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00 – Discussion
12:00 – 13:30 – Lunch
13:30 – 15:30 – Panel: BROAD-ER Team Panel
15:30 – 16:00 – Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:00 – Thematic presentations
- Thursday, July 27, 2023 New immigrant destinations: Challenges and opportunities beyond the metropolis & cities and diversity policies
09:30 – 10:30 – Lecture: Dr. Claire Dorrity, University College Cork
“Migrant solidarities and the city”
10:30 – 11:00 – Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00 – Discussion
12:00 – 13:30 – Lunch
13:30 – 14:30 – Lecture: Prof. Maurizio Ambrosini, University of Milan
“Debordering solidarity and weak immigrants”
14:30 – 15:00 – Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:00 – Discussion
- Friday, July 28, 2023 Closing Remarks
09:30 – 11:30 – Lecture: Dr. Apostolos Veizis, INTERSOS Hellas, Executive Director
“Invisible in the city: Addressing humanitarian challenges of refugees and migrants”
11:30 – 12:00 – Coffee Break
12:00 – 12:30 – Closing Remarks by Prof. Ahmet İçduygu, Koç University