News:
The Call for Applications for our next Summer School, from September 8th-12th, 2025, is open now: BIPMainz_CallForApplications_students
Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme (BIP), 2024-2025
The FORTHEM-lab “Diversity and Migration” in Mainz is organizing a multidisciplinary Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) Summer School on the topic of Invisibilities and Visualities of Migration. We take the current paradigmatic shift of decentering migration studies as a starting point to critically engage with existing methods and approaches, and to question how we conceptualize “the migrant”,“mobility”, “vulnerability” and other common terminologies in the context of European migration- andborderscapes.
Some featured subtopics for the summer school will be:
Topic 1: Ethics and techniques of visuality
Topic 2: Current theories for migration to Europe
Topic 3: Political subjectivation, empowerment of migrants
Topic 4: Multivocalities and audiovisual methods
Topic 5: Opportunities and risks of invisibilities and visualities
Topic 6: Media activism: counternarratives and strategies
Topic 7: The depiction of “otherness”: Historical colonialities in audiovisual media
The summer school will have a strong collaborative character to experience different voices, perspectives, methods, and ideas for activists, civil-society actors and creative research. Artistic or creative outputs and portfolios are explicitly welcome.
The call for application for students is open now until February 28th, 2025.
Further information here:
BIPMainz_CallForApplications_students
Further information: BIPMainz_CallForApplications_students
FORTHEM fosters internationalisation in research and education -
for more information read here (JGU Magazine, July 2024)
IncluKIT - Inclusive Intercultural Communication Training Kit for Initial Reception of Migrants
The FORTHEM Lab "Diversity and Migration" launched its milestone: IncluKIT is available now!
Free Download of all kits and further information here
Further translations (German, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish... are available soon)
IncluKIT is a training kit aimed at the whole spectrum of volunteers and professionals involved in the initial reception of newly arrived migrants in European countries, focusing on the analysis of mismatched expectations and misunderstandings during this transitional phase.
The kit is designed for all the people working with migrants, based on an in-depth study of their respective needs. It makes use of recent academic research on interculturality to go beyond the limits of traditional tools for raising awareness of cultural differences. IncluKIT provides a practical application of critical theoretical approaches, based on varied and innovative methodologies, in a user-friendly format. The training kit is accessible free of charge and can be used in various contexts (state-sponsored institutions, NGOs, educational/academic communities, private businesses) and adapted to specific local realities.
IncluKIT is the FIT FORTHEM co-creation pilot project of the FORTHEM Lab Diversity & Migration. FORTHEM is an alliance of nine European universities, six of which are involved in IncluKIT: Università degli Studi di Palermo (Italy), Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Germany), Université de Bourgogne (France), Jyväskylän Yliopisto (Finland), Uniwersytet Opolski (Poland) and Universitat de València (Spain). The two external stakeholders for the project are SIETAR Europa and diversophy®, with the support of SIETAR Switzerland and the SIG Migration.
Contact: inclukit@gmail.com
Past Activities:
SUMMER SCHOOL (Blended Intensive Program) in Palermo/ Sicily:
"Migrants and cities: Intersectional studies on the mutual interaction between new citizens and urban space"
10 June - 14 June 2024, Università degli Studi di Palermo (Palermo, Italy)
Guest Lecturers: Veronika Cummings & Paul Hummel
Further Information here
Programme: Migrants and Cities BIP Programme
WE NEED TO TALK - Online panel discussion on anti-discrimination strategies at the FORTHEM partner universities
25.01.2023 at 4pm, CET.
For the Flyer and all information click here:We Need To Talk_25.01.2023
FORTHEM: Funded by the European Union & the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101017248 ( FIT FORTHEM).
Die Europäische Kommission hat im Juni 2019 insgesamt 17 europäische Hochschulnetzwerke ausgewählt, die mit Visionen den Europäischen Hochschulraum neu denken und mit Leben füllen sollen. Eines dieser Netzwerke ist die FORTHEM-Allianz unter Federführung der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (JGU).
Wir freuen uns über die Bewilligung der zweiten Förderperiode der FORTHEM -Allianz von 2022-2026. Veronika Cummings hat ab September 2022 die Koordination des Labs „Diversity and Migration“ auf Universitätsebene übernommen und schließt damit an die erfolgreiche Lab-Koordination von Gerhard Kruip (Sozialethik, JGU Mainz) während der ersten Förderperiode an. Überdies vertritt Veronika Cummings die JGU als Board Member in der Co-Creation Mission.
Weitere Informationen zu den Aktivitäten des Lab erhalten Sie hier: Link zum Bericht
Das Ziel von FORTHEM ist es, den Austausch und Zusammenarbeit von Studierenden und Lehrenden, Forschenden und wissenschaftsstützendem Personal innerhalb der Allianz zu verbessern.
Internationale Kooperationspartner der Allianz sind:
- Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz in Deutschland
- Université de Bourgogne in Frankreich
- Uniwersytet Opolski in Polen
- Universitat de València in Spanien
- Università degli Studi di Palermo in Italien
- Latvijas Universitāte in Lettland
- Jyväskylän yliopisto in Finnland
- Universitetet i Agder in Norwegen
- Universitatea Lucian Blaga din Sibiu in Rumänien
Darüber hinaus sind Kooperationen mit außeruniversitären Partner*innen an den einzelnen Standorten vorgesehen.
- Das Lab verfolgt einen inklusiven Ansatz und möchte zu Beteiligung aufrufen. Wir freuen uns über Ideen, Diskussionsbeiträge oder Initiativen im Themenbereich „Diversity and Migration“!