Speaker: Dr. Kamel Doraï, University of Poitiers & IFPO Amman, Jordan
Language: English – a German translation with headphones will be available

Dr. Kamel Doraï is an expert on forced migration in the Middle East with a longstanding fieldwork experience. He is a researcher at the CNRS (the French National Centre for Scientific Research) currently based at IFPO (Amman, Jordan) and research associate at MIGRINTER, University of Poitiers (France). He coordinates a research program (2015-2018) entitled „Time of conflicts/Time of migration: Reflections on the categories and genealogy of migration in the Middle East“ that examines the impact of recent mass migration in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. Previously he has worked on Palestinian refugees in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon and published on urbanization processes of refugee camps.

Moderation: Prof. Dr. Maurus Reinkowsi, Seminar for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Basel.

Speaker: Senay Özden, Hamisch e.V., Istanbul, Turkey
Language: English

Senay Özden is an expert on Syrian refugees, who worked at the Migration Policy Center (Koc University) in Turkey. She is the co-founder of Hamisch e.V, a cultural center by and for Syrian refugees in Istanbul. Previously she conducted research in refugee camps in Syria, yet since the arrival of Syrian refugees in Turkey, she is active in the Turkish-Syrian border and assists urban refugees from Syrian in Istanbul.

Moderation: Prof. Dr. Bilgin Ayata, Seminar of Sociology, University of Basel.

Speakers: Dr. Joseph Daher, Lausanne & Hozan Ibrahim, Berlin
Language: English – a German translation with headphones will be available

Joseph Daher is a Syrian-Swiss leftist political activist. He has PhD in Development Studies from School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) and teaches as an assistant teacher in Lausanne University, Switzerland, where is doing a second PhD on the origins and development of the syrian revolutionary process. He is the founder of the blog Syria Freedom Forever. He is author of a book “Hezbollah, the political economy of the party of God” that will be published in Autumn 2016 with Pluto Press. syriafreedomforever.wordpress.com

Hozan Ibrahim is founder and director of „Citizens for Syria“ that maps and researches in the Syrian civil society, participated in the civic movement in Syria since 2002 in several initiatives and in the peaceful movement for the right of the Kurdish minority in Syria, he was therefore arrested twice. Hozan joined the Local Coordination Committees in Syria since its first days and became a member of the general secretariat of the Syrian National Council since foundation till 2012, he organized and participated in several international conferences, since 2013 focused mainly on supporting nascent civil society organizations and initiatives by offering contacts and management and technical skills as an IT consultant and certified project and quality manager. https://citizensforsyria.org/

Moderation: Prof. Dr. Laurent Goetschel, Political Science, University of Basel, Director of Swisspeace.

Language: German
Roundtable discussion with inputs by:

• Dr. Jana Häberlein (University of Neuchâtel)
• Dr. Leyla Ferman (Mardin, Turkey)
• Harika Yilmaz (activist, Autonome Schule Zürich)
• Cyrielle Huguenot (Amnesty International, Switzerland)

Moderation: Dr. Andrea Zimmermann, Center of Gender Studies, University of Basel.

Speaker: Charles Heller, Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths College, Co-founder of the network ‘Watch the Med’ (http://www.watchthemed.net/) (Cairo)
“Ebbing and Flowing: The EU’s politics of (non)assistance and bordering across land and sea“
Language: English/German

Following the lecture: Roundtable on current practices and activism in the Mediterranean Sea and the Balkan Route with:

• Charles Heller
• Adrienne Homberger (Moving Europe, Zürich)
• Hatem Gheribi, (Watch the Med Alarmphone, Strasbourg/Tunis)

Moderation: Dr. des. Sarah Schilliger, Seminar of Sociology, University of Basel.

Language: German
Panel discussion with:

• Prof. Dr. Walter Leimgruber (Chair of Cultural Sciences and European Ethnology, University of Basel, President of Federal Commission on Migration)
• Dr. Nele Hackländer (Head of Student Services, University of Basel)
• Jakob Merane (Initiative Open Lecture Hall , University of Basel)
• Vedat Ates (Student in Sociology, University of Basel)
• Rebecca Hofmann (Coordination for Refugee Affairs at PH Freiburg, Germany)

Moderation: Prof. Dr. Elisio Macamo, Chair of the Department of Social Sciences, University of Basel.