Thursday 9th November 2017
1:15 pm–1:45 pm: Arrival and Registration
1:45 pm–2:00 pm: Words of Welcome – Andreas Mehler and Matthias Middell
2:00 pm–2:45 pm: “Protracted refugee situations and durable solutions” (Heidrun Bohnet, BICC)
Discussant: Andreas Mehler (ABI)
2:45 pm–3:30 pm: “Tracing migrants' trajectories. Towards an epistemological integration of the journey” (Anna Lipphardt, University of Freiburg)
Discussant: Matthias Middell (University of Leipzig)
3:30 pm–4:00 pm: Coffee Break
4:00 pm–4:45 pm: “Challenges for comparing comprehensive migration policy across countries and regions” (Luicy Pedroza, GIGA)
Discussant: Christian von Lübke (ABI)
4:45 pm–5:30 pm: “Forced Immobility: Lessons from the Jordanian-Syrian Borderland” (André Bank, GIGA)
Discussant: Benjamin Schütze (ABI)
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm: Roundtable - Lessons for Area Studies so far and Methodological Consequences
Panellists: Andreas Eckert, Elisio Macamo and Ute Rietdorf
Chair: Matthias Middell and Andreas Mehler
7:30 pm: Joint Dinner
Friday 10th November 2017
9:00 am–9:45 am: “The Politics of EU-AU Migration Governance: From Rhetoric to Practice” (Franzisca Zanker, ABI)
Discussant: Ulf Engel (University of Leipzig)
9:45 am–10:30 am: Discussion on DFG Priority Programme “Transnational Studies” (Ulf Engel, University of Leipzig)
10:30 am–11:00 am: Coffee Break
11:00 am–11:30 am: Final Discussions and Conclusion
11:30 am–12:30 pm: Annual General Assembly
From 2 pm the Annual Conference of the African Law Society will start; all conference attendees welcome (please register)