30.06.2016

Summer School Re-ordering Diversity: Humanitarian Assistance in the Context of Forced Migration and Displacement

A cooperation between the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 923 “Threatened Order – Societies under Stress“, the Center for Gender and Diversity Research, and theMax Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Goettingen)

4–8 July 2016 University of Tuebingen
Haus Albblick (Paul-Lechler-Str. 20)

The Summer School

Forced migration and displacement are controversially debated
issues in current public and political discourse. A rhetoric of
threatened order manifests itself alongside attempts to frame
the situation as manageable, or even as a chance.
Considering the resulting challenges that politics and
practitioners are facing, the need for a more thorough
academic engagement becomes apparent. On the one hand, it
is paramount to collect a corpus of data which will enable a
better theorization of the issues at hand; on the other hand,
academics have to take responsibility as the ‘informed
consultants’ politicians and practitioners are in need of.
Both those people categorized as ‘refugees’ and the societi es
receiving them are extremely diverse. Due to a lack of
academic expertise and theorization, this aspect has so far
been only marginally acknowledged in the German-speaking
context. In the field, this often results in irritations and complex
conflicts between agents, in which a perceived threat against
one’s own group dominates the discourse.
The Summer School provides a platform for dialogue between
different agents from the field (researchers, practitioners,
refugees), who, together, will develop hypotheses and further
questions. The goal is to find ways to theorize and frame forced
migration and displacement in terms of questions of diversity,
humanitarian assistance and ‘threatened order’, and especially
to integrate and specify topics from ongoing and emerging
research projects.
The Summer School will take place as a cooperati on between
the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 923 “Threatened
Order – Societies under Stress”, the Center for Gender and
Diversity Research, and the Max Planck Institute for the Study
of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Goettingen).