Intensive Graduate Workshop for Migration Studies Students

with Professor Helga Leitner

Date: 4 May 2009
Location: Meeting Room A, Block AS7, The Shaw Foundation Building, Level 6, NUS@Kent Ridge
Discussant: Professor Helga Leitner

Students will have an opportunity to get focused personalized feedback on their research proposals.  

• Ask questions around personal areas of difficulties
• Obtain expert advice on proposals, migration theories and methodologies
• Get assistance from other graduates
• Provide constructive feedback to fellow graduates

Participants will be asked to provide a one-page summary of their research proposals, which should include primary questions, theoretical framework and methodology.  

This intensive workshop can ONLY accomodate up to 10 students.  Those who RSVP first will be given priority. Places are filling fast!

The call for participants is open until 30 April 2009, or until all 10 slots are filled (whichever comes first).

 

About:

HELGA LEITNER is Professor of Geography, and faculty member in the Institute for Global Studies and the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change, at the University of Minnesota. Born in Austria, she received her MA and PhD from the University of Vienna (1978), and a post-graduate degree from the Technical University of Karlsruhe, Germany. After teaching at the University of Vienna, she moved to Minnesota in 1985. She has held visiting professorships at the University of Indonesia, the University of Vienna, University College London, and the Technical University of Munich, and not at the National University of Singapore.  She has published three books and has written numerous articles and book chapters (was too lazy to count them) on the politics of immigration and citizenship, immigrant incorporation, globalization and urban development, urban social movements, and socio-spatial theory. Recent publications include a co-edited book with J. Peck and E. Sheppard Contesting Neoliberalism: Urban Frontiers, articles such as The Spatialities of Contentious Politics (Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2008), Transnationalism and Migrants’ Imaginings of Citizenship (Environment and Planning A, 2006 with Patricia Ehrkamp), Local Lives, Transnational Ties, and the Meaning of Citizenship – Somali Histories and Herstories from Small Town America (Bildhaan – An International Journal of Somali Studies, 2004). Her current research projects focus on immigration and the politics of belonging, the meaning of immigrant integration, and rethinking global urbanism.