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Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the coming
workshop

Fielding Challenges, Challenging the Field: The Methodologies of Mobility
EASA Anthropology of Mobility Workshop
27–28 September 2013, University of Oxford, UK

An international workshop on new methodological and theoretical questions
emerging in the ethnography of mobility. Jointly sponsored by EASA, COMPAS,
OxQualHub, and CuMoRe.

Convenors: Jamie Coates (University of Sheffield), Alice Elliot (University
of Leuven) and Roger Norum (University of Oxford)

All warmly welcome. Registration required:
http://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/mobmeth

Workshop website: http://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/mobmeth
Contact: [log in to unmask]

Programme: (pdf attached)

**FRIDAY 27 SEPTEMBER**

08.30–09:00    REGISTRATION & COFFEE
09:00–09:15    WELCOME

09:15–10:00    KEYNOTE: HANS LUCHT, COPENHAGEN

10:00–12:00     Panel 1A: ARCHIVES & DOCUMENTS

*Shuhua Chen, St Andrews*—Archive Tells: ‘Multi-sited’ fieldwork in a
single place
*Katja Uusihakala, Helsinki*—Fairbridge memories: Remembering British child
migration to colonial Southern Rhodesia
*Susanne Osterlund-Potzsch, Åbo Akademi*—Bodies in motion: Movement
as performance in early Finland-Swedish ethnographic expeditions
*Miia Halme-Tuomisaari, Max Plank Institute*—Mobile yet stagnant: Examining
human rights monitoring

Discussant DAVID MILLS, OXFORD

10.00–12:00     Panel 1B: TECHNOLOGIES & TECHNIQUES

*Jonah Rimer, Oxford*—The mobility of internet sex offenders through online
and offline realms
*Kira C. Allmann, Oxford*—Network error: How mobility informs
digital ethnographies of the Arab Spring
*John McManus, Oxford*—Should all anthropologists have iPhones? Reflections
on phenomenological approaches to fieldwork
*Marilou Polymeropoulou, Oxford*—‘All I need is in my backpack’: Mobility,
methods and challenges in the digital field

Discussant ERIC MEYER, OXFORD

12:00–13:30     LUNCH

13:30–15:00     Panel 2A: BECOMING & SETTLING

*Chris Vasantkumar, Hamilton College*—Scattered places or scattered
in place? Rethinking the relationship between anthropology, mobility
and diaspora
*Nayana Bibile, New South Wales*—The imaginary of hope, the dynamics
of resettling and uneven equalities
*Sean O'Dubhghaill, Leuven*—Mobilising theoretical methodologies
of involvement: Becoming European and the Irish diaspora in Belgium

Discussant TBA

13.30–15.00     Panel 2B: ILLEGALITIES & ALEGALITIES

*Ruben Andersson, Stockholm*—Mobile fieldwork in Europe’s
‘illegality industry’: some methodological reflections
*Annette Idler, Oxford*—Multi-site fieldwork in Colombia’s most neglected
and war-torn borderlands: A methodological account of three ‘mobility
challenges’
*Ines Hasselberg, Oxford*—Nothing to observe, nothing to participate in: On
the methodological challenges of an anthropological study of removal

Discussant TBA

15:00–15:30     COFFEE

15:30–17:00     Panel 3: JOURNEYS & MOTIONS

*Andre Novoa, Royal Holloway*—A country on wheels: A mobile ethnography of
Portuguese lorry drivers
*Hege Høyer Leivestad, Stockholm*—Materiality of mobility: Methodology on
wheels
*Joris Schapendonk, Utrecht*—Follow the migrant: Methodological challenges
and ethical questions of a trajectory ethnography

Discussant JONNY STEINBERG, OXFORD

19:30              DINNER

**SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER**

09:00–10:00     KEYNOTE: NOEL SALAZAR, LEUVEN

10:00–10:30     COFFEE

10:30–12:00     Panel 4A: VISUALITIES

*Yasmin Gunaratnam, Goldsmiths*—Mortal chorographies
*Christian Vium, Copenhagen*—Itinerant bodies and elusive
trajectories: Applying photography as method in multi-sited ethnographic
research on undocumented migration from West Africa to Europe
*Julie Lynn Fischer, MIT*—Interviews through the looking glass: How Skype
video-over-IP alters the landscape of the qualitative research interview

Discussant DAVID ZEITLYN, OXFORD

10:30-12:00     Panel 4B: AFFECTS

*Raluca Nagy, ULB Brussels*—For an ‘affected’ ethnography of mobility
*Paolo Boccagni, Trento*—Mapping migrants’ affective ties over a distance
through ethnography: Multi-sited, multi-relational, and the crucial
‘inbetween’
*Lee Siewpeng, Brunel*—Applying Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis to research
on migration: Some ruminations

Discussant DAVID PICARD, NEW UNIVERSITY OF LISBON

12:00–13.00     LUNCH

13:00–14:30     Panel 5A: STUDYING UP & SIDEWAYS

*Mari Korpela, Tampere* —Beyond methodological nationalism: Learning from
the lifestyle migrant children in Goa, India
*Anna Lipphardt, Freiburg*—Grounding the mobile success story: On
the challenge of interviewing artists
*Guillaume Dumont, Madrid*—Where is the field? The fluxes and flows of an
ethnography in movement

Discussant MICHAELA BENSON, GOLDSMITHS

13:00–14:30     Panel 5B: FIELDS & FIXITIES

*Kathrine Ann Cagat, SOAS*—Open fields: Negotiating mobility in Ifugao
Province
*Haosen Hu, East China Normal*—Network as field
*Jessica  Chu, SOAS*—Fixedness and mobility in ‘Land Grabs’ in Zambia: How
do we know what we know?

Discussant ALICE ELLIOT, LEUVEN

14:30–15:00     COFFEE

15:00–16:30     Panel 6: IMAGINARIES

*Valerio Simoni, Lisbon*—Uncovering multiplicity: Ethnography of touristic
encounters in Cuba and its theoretical implications
*Katarzyna Wolanik-Boström, Umeå and Magnus Öhlander, Södertörn
and Stockholm*—Mobile physicians encountering other ‘cultures’ –
on ethnographic sensibility and authority
*Branwyn Poleykett, Cambridge*—Sensing ‘capacity’: tracing mobile cultures
of science

Discussant SIMONE ABRAM, LEEDS MET

16:30–17:15     FINAL WORDS

17:15               PUB DRINKS IN OXFORD, all welcome!

Website & registration: http://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/mobmeth


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Alice Elliot
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Pegasus Marie Curie Fellow
IMMRC-Anthropology, University of Leuven

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