13. November
17.00 Uhr - 19.30 Uhr /5 pm
Veranstalter:
Cologne International Forum & At-Risk Scholar Support, Dezernat für Internationales
Ort:
International House
Kringsweg 6
50931 Cologne
Information:
Vortrag zum Thema: »‘Academic Humanitarianism’ as Emergent Dispositive: A Critical Appraisal of Europe’s Scholar Protection Programmes, 2016-2024«, gehalten von Esra Erdem und Zafer Yılmaz
The venue is wheelchair accessible and the lecture will be held in spoken English.
"Academic communities worldwide are going through dire times, experiencing severe threats to civic and human rights and their ability to engage in critical research and teaching. At the same time, the last decade has seen concerted efforts on the part of universities, civil society organisations, public and private institutions to mobilise resources for the protection and support of displaced scholars.
Through our research, we aim to gain a better theoretical understanding of how the logic of ‘humanitarian reason’ gets mapped onto the academic field. Drawing on Foucault’s work, we develop a dispositive analysis of the complex formation that Yarar/Karakaşoğlu have termed ‘academic humanitarianism’.
Our study is based on extensive empirical research dedicated to the analysis of the discursive, material and knowledge practices articulating this newly emerging dispositive. Particular attention is paid to the frames that policy actors mobilise to navigate the tensions around conflicting rationales for ‘scholar rescue’ programmes. Moreover, we critically discuss the role that the creation of categories such as the ‘at-risk scholar’ plays in academic humanitarian interventions and processes of knowledge production. The EU SAFE fellowship programme serves as a case study to examine the range of technologies employed to regulate access to support mechanisms, the pastoral power embodied in hosting/mentoring relations, and the cooperation-competition nexus governing the relationships between network actors such as universities, NGOs, and exiled scholars, but also as a departure point for thinking potential lines of empowerment and re-subjectification."
More information and the link for registration can be found via: https://cif.uni-koeln.de/events/perspectives