Upcoming Events

Oct
19
Thu
2023
Why legal form and funding models matter in advocacy @ Sala Belvedere, Villa Schifanoia
Oct 19 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Why legal form and funding models matter in advocacy @ Sala Belvedere, Villa Schifanoia
In this ‘Europe in the World’ seminar series, Nina Hall will present research on how legal form and funding models help explain the behavior of advocacy organisations.
A large, rich scholarship in international relations (IR) has sought to explain advocacy organisations behavior, and their impact on international affairs. Scholars have investigated differences: in the norms organisations champion, as well as their tactics (radical/moderate), strategies (insider/outsider), and decision-making processes (decentralised vs centralised). However, IR scholars have not examined variation in their: 1) legal status and 2) funding models. Advocacy organisations can register as charities or political entities; and can be funded by philanthropic grants or member-donations. In this seminar, Nina Hall will draw on existing research on NGOs, not-for-profits, and political communications to illustrate why legal form and funding models help explain the behavior of advocacy organisations, their accountability structures, and vulnerability to government restrictions. IR scholarship should not examine global trends in repression of NGOs, but also how advocacy organisations can respond to this shrinking civic space by changing their funding models and/or legal status.
Nov
3
Fri
2023
Nomadic (counter)mapping: Motioning migration-security nexuses @ Sala Belvedere, Villa Schifanoia
Nov 3 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Nomadic (counter)mapping: Motioning migration-security nexuses @ Sala Belvedere, Villa Schifanoia
Join this ‘Europe in the World’ seminar series with Jef Huysmans
In this seminar, Jef Huysmans will explore an agenda of motioning the politics of (in)security by analysing how techniques of mapping migration work within and upon security-migration nexuses. Motioning the politics of (in)security comes to the question of security and migration by focusing on how mapping methods produce particular conceptions of movement in the production of spatial knowledge and artefacts. More specifically, he will explore how taking a Lucretian point of view that understands life and matter as essentially in motion transmutes the international and humanitarian security conceptions of movement-space through which migration and its regulatory possibilities are imagined and conducted. To that purpose, the seminar introduces a distinctive mode of mapping that Jef Huysmans will refer to as nomadic counter-mapping which disrupts cartographic practices working with sedentarising grids and network conceptions of movement. Reading mapping of migration-security nexuses through debates and practices of counter-mapping places ‘mapping’ directly in a politicised context of struggles, contestations, and disagreements over representations and narrations of migration and security modes of governing it.