Program
see also: Program for the Symposium Week, Symposium Program Flyer (PDF)
Students Symposium March 10-11:
Friday, 10 Mar, 2006Intercultural Center, 7th Floor Executive Conference Room
Welcome and Opening of the Symposium13:00-13:30
Reinhard Isensee, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Welcome Address
Dr. Eric Langenbacher, Government Dept., Georgetown University
Welcome Address
Philipp Kneis, Janine Ludwig, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Welcome Address
Session I: Issues of Integration in the European Union13:30-15:15
Danijela Djordjevic, HU Berlin:
Accession of Countries to the EU
Janine Ludwig, HU Berlin (organizer):
Testing the Loyalty of Immigrants
Dominik Jungermann, Elmar Narayan, HU Berlin:
Ethnic Economies in Germany: A Closer Look at (Turkish) Entrepeneurs in Germany (Berlin)
Coffee Break
Session II: Case Studies, Part One15:45-17:30
Alisa Isovic, Georgetown University:
Comparing German and US Refugee Policy - Bosnian Refugees as a Case Study
Zachary Wynne, Georgetown University:
Who is Hungarian: Untangling the Debate between Citizenship ∓ Nationality in Historic & Modern Hungary
Phil Thomas, Georgetown University:
What Canadian Migration Policy Means for Europe: A Research Proposal
Saturday, 11 Mar, 2006Center for Contemporary Arab Studies Boardroom, Intercultural Center 2nd Floor (ICC 241)
Session III: The Local Level09:00-10:30
Aaron Erlich, Georgetown University:
The Politics of Immigration & Citizenship: The Emerging Importance of Local Politics
David Rose, HU Berlin:
The Ecology of Self-Containment: Gated Communities as Affluent Parallel Societies
Florian Stenschke, HU Berlin:
Alternative School Models Aimed at Aiding Integration
Coffee Break
Session IV: Immigration Policy11:00-12:30
Christine Leppin, HU Berlin:
Fortress Europe - The EU's Immigration Dilemma and Failure to Agree on a Common Immigration Policy
Daniel Smith, Georgetown University:
Immigration, Citizenship, and the Effectiveness of Anti-discrimination Norms in Denmark
Anja Swidsinski, Timo Tonassi, HU Berlin:
Preventing Illegal Immigration in the South of the U.S. and the E.U.
Lunch Break
Session V: Immigrants & Society13:30-15:00
Felix Wucherpfennig, HU Berlin:
Italian Immigrants in the USA
Philipp Kneis, HU Berlin (organizer):
"Friends of Ours." Strategies of Minority Self-Assertion and Self-Definition on The Sopranos
Dominik Bertram, HU Berlin:
Parallel Societies - Society's Parallel?
Tour of Georgetown University
Session VI: Case Studies, Part Two16:00-17:15
Hannah Eberhard, HU Berlin:
"East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet": Immigration from Asia
Sebastian Schöbel, HU Berlin:
Quarter Management in the Soldiner Kiez, Berlin-Wedding
Closing Remarks17:15-17:30
End of Conference
The Symposium is made possible by the generous support of:
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
BMW Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University
Max Kade Foundation
Fachschaft / Students Union of the Institute for English and American Studies, HU Berlin
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