Organisers: DAAD India, MWF Delhi
Mode: Online
Tune in to the Early Career Research Symposium for Humanities and Social Sciences (Digital) on ‘Cross-Border Mobility’.
The symposium guarantees diverse and insightful perspectives on different topics by nearly 40 presenters. For details, refer to the ECRS 2024 Programme.
About the symposium
Jointly organised by the DAAD and its partner organisations, the symposium will offer an excellent opportunity to early career researchers to showcase their work in the overarching subject of Cross-Border Mobility. It aims to recognise and facilitate synergies amongst researchers and exchange of ideas in the wider fields of humanities and social sciences. It will offer a wide spectrum of inter- and multidisciplinary topics on cross-border mobility by engaging early career scholars, junior researchers, research fellows and academics. If you belong to this target group, then this symposium is an ideal platform to help you engage with experts from the subject field.
The topic of the symposium Cross-Border Mobility is a term witnessing and gaining rapid momentum in our society in recent times. This collaborative symposium is dedicated to creating opportunities and synergies for young and budding researchers to not only share their research approaches but also to promote knowledge exchange and collaboration within the research community. During the symposium the selected early career researchers will present their research work to an international audience and discuss with experts.
The symposium addresses a wide spectrum of inter- and multidisciplinary topics of cross-border mobility with the focus on five distinct fields of inquiry:
- Refugees and Irregular Migration
- Law and Migration
- Narratives of Migration
- Migration and Education
- Labour Migration (incl. Health)
The symposium will involve an expert committee of high-ranking scientists from the social sciences and humanities (Names in alphabetical order):
- Dr Yamini Agarwal, Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies (MWF)
- Prof. Dr Ummu Salma Bava, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)
- Prof. Dr Alexander Fischer, O.P. Jindal Global University
- Prof. Dr Eva Gerharz, Hochschule Fulda, Germany
- Prof. Dr Stefan Horlacher, Technical University Dresden, Germany
- Prof. Indrani, Gupta Institute of Economic Growth (IEG)
- Dr Christian Strümpell, Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies (MWF)
- Prof. Narender Thakur, Delhi University (DU)
- Associate Prof. Amit Upadhyay, O.P. Jindal Global University
- Prof. N.V. Varghese, National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA)
- Dr Jan-Helge Weidemann, Delhi University (DU)