Soziologie

Convenor: Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka (Bielefeld, GER)
16 – 18 June 2016

Programme

THURSDAY, 16 JUNE

13:00 – 13:15    Welcome Address by the ZiF
13:15 – 13:30    Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka (Bielefeld University) Introduction to the
                             workshop

1. Universities and their Students – Actors, Knowledge, Inequalities

13:30 – 14:30     Key-note: Fazal Rizvi (Educational Studies, Melbourne University):
                             “Elite Schools in India and the Formation of Global Imaginaries”
14:30 – 15:15    Dhruv Raina (Philosophy of Science, JNU, Delhi): “The
                             Landscapes of the Contemporary University: The Dilemmas of
                             Knowledge and Institutions”

- Coffee break -

15:45 – 16:30     Parvati Raghuram (Open University, London): “Theorising Student
                              Mobilities through Relational Thinking”
16:30 – 17:15     Michael Huber (Bielefeld University): “Internationalisation as
                             Organisational Problem. How European Universities Deal with
                             Increased Student Mobility”
17:15 – 18:00     Maria do Mar Castro Varela (Educational Studies, IfHS, Vienna):
                              “Education and the Production of Inequality”
19:00 -                 - Buffet dinner at the ZiF -

FRIDAY, 17 JUNE

2. Student (Im)Mobilities – Socially and Spatiall

09:15 – 10:00:   Thomas Faist (Sociology, Bielefeld University): “Bright Futures?!
                            Socio-spatial Mobilities and Inequalities among International
                             Students from China"
10:00 – 10:45:    Dietrich Reetz (Political Science and History, ZMO Berlin)
                              “Between Knowledge, Activism and the Global Market:
                             International Students at
                             Islamic Madrasas and the International Islamic University in
                             Pakistan”

- Coffee break -

11:05 – 11:50:   Surinder S. Jodhka (Sociology, JNU, Delhi): “Counter-
                             Cosmopolitan? -Ethnic Formations among University Students
                             in Delhi”
11:50 – 12:35:   Andrea Kölbel (Geography, FU, Berlin): “'Studying Abroad' from a
                             Distance: Narratives of Young People Staying Back in Nepal”

- Lunch break -

3. Positional Competition – Intermediaries - Aspirations

13:40 – 14:25     Susan Thieme (Geography, FU Berlin): "Following an Application:
                              Exploring Actors and Representations in the Contested Spaces of
                             Application Processes for Study Abroad"
14:25 – 15:10     Ulrich Schreiterer (Sociology, WZB, Berlin): “Private Higher
                             Education in India: A special case in Asia?”

- Coffee break -

15.40 – 16:25    Karen Valentin (Educational Anthropology, Aarhus University):
                              “Hierarchies of Knowledge, Mobile Capacities and the Reshaping
                             of Academic Practices: Mobilities in Nepalese Higher Education”
16:25 – 17:10   Eva Gerharz and Katrin Renschler (Sociology, Bochum University):
                              "The Challenge of Mastering One's own Future: Students'
                             Negotiations of Mobility in Meghalaya"
17:10 – 18:00   Siri Hettige (Sociology, Colombo University):
                             “Global Student Mobility as a Potential Driver of Social, Cultural and
                             Economic Development. Historical and Contemporary
                             Perspectives”
19:00 -                 - Buffet dinner at the ZiF -

SATURDAY, 18 JUNE

4. Student mobilisations

09:00 – 09:45     Sanjay Kumar (Political Science, CSDS, Delhi): "Youths in India:
                             Patterns of Political Mobilisation"
09:45 – 10:30   Satendra Kumar (Political Science, University of Allahabad): "The
                             Great Transformation: Youth, Politics and Higher Education in a
                              North Indian University"
10:30 – 11:15    Chandraiah Gopani (Political Science, G.B.PSSI):"Democratizing
                              Higher Education: The Contours of Subaltern (Dalitbahujan)
                              Students' Mobilizations, Struggles and Politics in Indian
                              Universities"

- Coffee break -

11:40 – 12:25    12:25 – 13:10     Amanda Snellinger (Social Anthropology, Oxford
                              University): "Waiting for ‘New Nepal’: Student Politics in the Long
                              Durée of Political Transition" Bert Suykens and Julian Kuttig
                              (Conflict Studies, Ghent University): "Student Violence and the
                              Production of Public Order in Bangladesh”

- Lunch break -

14:10 -                 Concluding Discussion: How to Proceed?