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Medzinárodná konferencia Migrations, rethinking contemporary migration events v Telči 24. – 26. júna 2010 bola druhou v rade a nadväzovala na úspešnú konferenciu uskutočnenú v Telči v roku 2008. Konferencia bola, podobne ako v roku 2008, organizovaná s cieľom vytvoriť priestor pre kvalitnú diskusiu o téme migrácie v súčasnom svete. Cieľom konferencie v roku 2008 bolo zmapovať ako je téma migrácie operacionalizované teoreticky i ako je k téme pristupované vo výskumníckej praxi. Ambíciou organizátorov konferencie bolo poukázať na možnosti sociálnych vied pri de-konštrukcii a falzifikovaní politík a praktík, ktoré sú prítomné v nacionalizovaných právnych normách.

Konferencia Migrations, rethinking contemporary migration events rozvíjala predchádzajúce témy a to v dvoch oblastiach, pričom každej z nich bol venovaný jeden deň:   

Knowledge Production in Migration Studies

In this rather theoretical session we focused on the practices that, speaking of migrations, transformed an event into a research topic and interests that stand behind it. The production and circulation of knowledge on migration has a differing logic in the areas of politics, public life and the academic world. The crucial question has been what types of migration are discursively produced as a normal and deviating social process and how different discursive fields interfere.

Migrations Policymaking

Theoretical concepts and research findings are re-defined in the political sphere and thus shape contemporary migration events. Political players have usually only slight understanding for broader than a national perspective. To be part of the administration of the nation state also means in some way believing in this „real fiction“ or at the very least acting pragmatically in line with it. The essential impact on migrating people’s living conditions enlightens the ethical aspects of migrations policymaking.

Keynote speakers konferencie v roku 2010 boli:  

Prof. Asa Kasher

Asa Kasher is the Laura Schwarz-Kipp Professor Emeritus of Professional Ethics and Philosophy of Practice and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University in Israel. He is co-author of the Israel Defense Forces Code of Ethics, „The Spirit of the IDF: Values and Basic Principles,“ 1994. His research covers a broad range of topics in philosophy and ethics, including military ethics and medical ethics, and philosophy of language, as well as issues of Jewish identity. He wrote an influential defense of Israel’s ‚law of return‘, justifying it as a form of affirmative action, following periods in which Jews were not allowed to immigrate to many countries. In 2000, Professor Kasher was awarded the Israel Prize for his work in philosophy and ethics.

Prof. Endre Sik

Endre Sik is a professor at the ELTE University, Department of Minority Studies, the director of the Centre for Refugee and Migration Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and of the National Focal Point of the European Union Centre for Monitoring Race and Xenophobia. For ten years he was the chairman of Refuge – Association for Helping Migrants. He served as the president of the Hungarian Sociological Association, of the Sociology Committee of the National Research Fund. He is a project manager at TÁRKI Research Institute Inc. His main fields of research are: migration, Diaspora; xenophobia, labour market, informal economy, households‘ economic behaviour; social network capital.

Bližšie informácie možno nájsť na http://ivris.fss.muni.cz/migrations

Konferencia sa uskutočnila v Konvikte svatých Andělů