Territorialisation: Migrant-state relationships as everyday political and religious processes

As migration features ever more prominently on state political agendas these lectures will investigate the ways territory is symbolically conquered by migrants as well as states through everyday political and religious processes.

Public lectures

Key note speakers

• Dr. Tuomas Martikainen, Director of the Institute of Migration, Turku
  The Domestication and Territorialisation of Religious Difference: The Nation-State's Role in Shaping Migrant Religious Formations
  
  
• Dr. Madeleine Reeves, Senior Lecturer of Social Anthropology, Manchester University
  “We Lost our Four Mountains!” Tempo, Territory and the Anthropology of Borders

Toumas Martikainen is Director of the Institute of Migration in Turku, Finland and has worked extensively with issues of state responses to the influx of migrants with different religious orientations.

Madeleine Reeves is Senior Lecturer of Social Anthropology with Manchester University, England and has worked for many years on issues related to Kyrgyz migration to Russia and with the attempts of the Kyrgyz state to shape Kyrgyz territory through managing migration.

Programme

The lectures will be chaired by Professor Margit Warburg (University of Copenhagen) and associate Professor Simon Turner (University of Copenhagen).

10:00  Territorialisation: a preliminary assessment
           Birgitte Stampe Holst and Astrid Krabbe Trolle

10:10  “We Lost our Four Mountains!” Tempo, Territory and the Anthropology of Borders            Madeleleine Reeves

10:55  Response
           Simon Turner

11:10  Questions from the audience

11:30  Break

11:45  The Domestication and Territorialisation of Religious Difference: The Nation-State's            Role in Shaping Migrant Religious Formations
           Tuomas Martikainen

12:30  Response
           Margit Warburg

12:45 Questions from the audience and closing remarks

Everyone is welcome.