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Conference Announcement
Theme: Recognition, Migration, and Critical Theory
Type: International Workshop
Institution: Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research, University of
Salzburg
Location: Salzburg (Austria)
Date: 3.–4.3.2020
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The Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research of the University of
Salzburg is organising a workshop on "Recognition, Migration, and
Critical Theory" on 3-4 March 2020.
The aim of this workshop is to discuss to what extent the concept of
recognition is suitable for the analysis and critique of current
migration issues. David Ingram (Loyola University Chicago) will give
the keynote talk at this workshop.
In recent years, the concept of recognition has found an astonishing
resonance in social and political philosophy and ethics, but also in
the social sciences. The claim is made that social relations and
processes can be better understood through the reference to
recognition and misrecognition, which opens up potentials for
criticism and overcoming injustices and distortions in modern,
capitalist societies. Critics, on the other hand, often argue that
the focus on recognition is misguided and obscures the view of the
actual social problems and their causes and is therefore not suited
to pointing the way out. Central to many discussions is always the
application of a critical theory of recognition and the extent to
which it is able to understand and analyse emerging social phenomena
and developments. Migration movements and the associated tensions are
phenomena that have become the focus of scientific, political and
public debate in recent years. Migration in all its forms and its
causes is by no means a new phenomenon, but it has become more
intense in some parts of the world and, especially in Europe, its
perception by politics and the population has changed. So what
contribution can a critical theory of recognition make here? Is the
concept of recognition appropriate to answer the political, social,
ethical and socio-theoretical questions posed by migration, flight
and integration? To what extent can global migration movements and
their causation through displacement, war, poverty, hunger or climate
change be analyzed in terms of recognition theory, or is there a need
for other conceptual approaches and theories? And finally, the
question what distinguishes the perspective of recognition from the
many other theories and normative concepts in social and political
philosophy that deal with migration, and what additional insights or
critique it has to offer.
There is no attendance fee but places are limited. Please send an
e-mail to c...@sbg.ac.at before February 15 if you wish to attend.
Précis of the papers are shared in advance among all participants.
Program
Tuesday
10.00-11.00
David Ingram (Loyola Chicago):
What Recognition Theory Can Add to an Ethics of Migration
11.15-12.15
Drew Thompson (Loyola Chicago):
Migration, Recognition, and Autonomy: Some Challenges
13.30-14.30
Martin Huth (Vienna):
Migration and the (selective) recognition of vulnerability.
Reflections on solidarity between Judith Butler and the Critical
Theory
14.45-15.45
Simon L Joergensen (Aalborg):
Naturalization policies as practices of recognition
16.00-17.00
Onni Hirvonen (Jyväskylä):
Recognition and Civic Selection
17.15-18.15
Kevin A. Escudero (Brown University):
A Comparative Social Movement Approach to the Politics of Recognition
in the U.S. Immigrant Rights Movement
Wednesday
09.00-10.00
Sabine Hirschauer (New Mexico):
German and U.S. Borderlands – Recognition and the Copenhagen School
in the Era of Hybrid Identities
10.15-11.15
Rizza Kaye C. Cases (U of the Philippines):
Claims-Making and Recognition through Care Work: Narratives of
Belonging and Exclusion of Filipinos in New York and London
11.30-12.30
Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag (Nord University) & Gabriela Mezzanotti
(University of South-Eastern Norway):
A quest for justice: A case study on recognition in migrant
interactions with Child Welfare Services in Norway
13.30-14.30
Hilkje Hänel (Berlin):
Epistemic Injustice, Recognition and Refugees
14.45-15.45
Heiko Berner (Salzburg):
Asylum and Reification
16.00-17.00
Gonçalo Marcelo:
Transnationalizing recognition: a new grammar for an old problem
Contact:
Gottfried Schweiger
Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research
University of Salzburg
Email: gottfried.schwei...@sbg.ac.at
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