Activities for project participants

Lektor Mons Bissenbakker (Project leader), Center for kønsstudier, INSS, Københavns Universitet

Affects. Borders. Biopolitics. The Danish context (Presentation).

Affect. Borders. Biopolitics (conference organizer– with Sofie Jeholm. Asta Smedegaard & Lene Myong).

National monogamy and queer orientations: The heteronormative language of family migration policies (Keynote).

At være stuck med kærligheden [On being stuck whith love] (presentation). 

The Necropolitics of Public Mourning (presentation).

Democratic participation in society – how to live together? (seminar participant).

Når retsstaten bliver lykkeobjekt, bliver boligpolitikkens racisme usynlig [when the Rule of law becomes  the object of happiness the racism of housing policies becomes invisible]. Read more

Dokumenting attachmnet (presentation with Sofie Jeholm).

Workshop: 21. The Affective Biopolitics of Migration (Workshop organizer – with Sofie Jeholm. Asta Smedegaard & Lene Myong).

Visiting researcher, University of Stavanger. 

Transforming Identities workshop project 2018-2019 (seminar participant).

Migration and Nation in the Age of Affective Biopolitics (presentation & seminar organizer). 

Attachment and kinning: Traces, Archives, Dead Ends – with Silvia Posocco (presentation & seminar organizer).

Vendingen mod tilknytning: Tilknytning som styringspolitisk værktøj for kærlighedsmigration [The turn to attachment. Attachment as a governmentality tool for love migration] (presentation).

Professor Lene Myong, (Senior reasearcher), Nettverk for kjønnsforskning, Institutt for medie- og samfunnsfag, Universitetet i Stavanger

Lene Myong. “The Neutralisation of Adoption Critiques: Transnational Adoption Reforms in Denmark 2012-18”. Open lecture, AFIN RESEARCH GROUP, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, February 14, 2019.

Lene Myong & Ingvill Stuvøy. «(Re)Producing the Scandinavian Welfare State Through Selective Pronatalism”. Paper at the Nordic Gender Studies Conference, Iceland, May 22-25, 2019.

Post.doc. Asta Smedegaard Nielsen, (Post.doc.), Institut for Kultur og Globale Studier, Aalborg Universitet

22-24 May 2019:
Paper presentation and participation in the NORA Conference 2019 ‘Border Regimes, Territorial Discourses and Feminist Politics’, University of Iceland, Reykjavik.
Paper titel: Compassionate Celebritization. Unpacking the 'true feelings' of the Danish people in the media reporting on a deportation case.

21-23 August 2019:
Organiser and paper presentation at the LOVA conference ‘Affects. Borders. Biopolitics.’, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Paper titel: Compassionate celebritization. 

17 October 2019:
Invited speaker at the one-day conference ‘Integration and Dimensions of Belonging’, Lund University, Sweden.  
Paper title: Mediated Love: Representations of family reunification and attachment in Danish media.

Ph.d.-stipendiat Sofie Jeholm, (PhD. fellow), Center for kønsstudier, INSS, Københavns Universitet

Udlandsophold hos Senter for kjønnsstudier, Universitetet i Stavanger (UiS).
4. marts - 4. juni 2019.

NORA Conference 2019: Border Regimes, Territorial Discourses & Feminist Politics, University of Iceland. 
22.-24. maj 2019.
Deltagelse med paper. Panel: Selection Mechanisms and Border control. Paper:  Application Denied: National Attachment as Affective Governmentality.

LOVA-konference: Affects. Borders. Biopolitics.
21.-23. august 2019.
Arrangør + deltagelse med paper. Session: Attachment, Family, and Belonging. Paper: Application Denied: National Attachment as Affective Governmentality.

Feminists at Work: Diversity, Complaint, Institutions - Open lecture by honorary doctor Sara Ahmed.
Deltaget med Asta, d. 17. oktober 2019.