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Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminars 2021-2022

The Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminars (LIMS) are a platform for those at Leiden University working on migration-related topics.

The seminars aim at fostering further discussion across disciplines on migration-related topics and creating an open dialogue between the speakers and the attendees. Cakes and biscuits are provided and depending on the location of the seminar you can bring your own lunch.

LIMS seminar series per academic year

Year 2015-2016
Year 2016-2017
Year 2017-2018
Year 2018-2019
Year 2019-2020
Year 2020-2021
Year 2021-2022
Year 2022-2023
Year 2023-2024

Programme

• 14 Jul
  Lecture | Lunch lecture by Prof. Eithne Luibhéid Queer and Trans migrations: Dynamics of illegalization, detention and deportation Eithne Luibhéid
• 22 Jun
  Lecture | LIMS seminar BOOK LAUNCH for Humanitarian Borders: Unequal Mobility and Saving Lives Dr. Polly Pallister-Wilkins, Prof.dr. Marlou Schrover (discussant)
• 29 Apr
  Lecture | LIMS seminar Immobile Nations: Independence and the Collapse of Labour Migration Systems in Southern Africa, c.1960-2020
• 30 Mar
  Lecture | LIMS seminar Birth of Statistics on International Migrations, 1850-1939 Philippe Rygiel (École normale supérieure de Lyon)
• 15 Feb
  Lecture | LIMS seminar Strangers and Hosts: (un)welcoming attitudes and spaces of refuge in contemporary urban Tanzania Dr. Catherina Wilson Janssens (History)
• 17 Dec
  Lecture | Book talk | LIMS seminar Internationalism, Protectionism, Xenophobia: The Second International’s Migration Debate (1889–1914) Daan Musters (The Council for Public Administration)
• 18 Nov
  Lecture | Book talk | LIMS seminar The Christian Slaves of Depok: A Colonial Tale Unravels With author Dr. Nonja Peters (Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands / John Curtin Institute of Public Policy, Curtin University, Western Australia), Discussants: Prof. Dr. Leonard Blussé van Oud Alblas (Leiden University) and Prof. Dr. Fridus Steijlen (VU/KITLV).
• 08 Oct
  Lecture | Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminar (LIMS) Migration aspirations and preferences to stay in a Brazilian frontier town: tranquility, hope and relative endowment
• 14 Sep
  Lecture | Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminar (LIMS) The state as a policy problem: Egyptians in Amsterdam Wiebe Ruijtenberg