By Aafke Brus, Radboud University Nijmegen

August 2014

5. Events

Besides research and publications, the organization of events such as conferences, symposia and PhD schools has been a key part of IMISCOE’s activities. Especially IMISCOE’s annual conference has become a key part of the agenda of migration scholars from all over Europe (and increasingly also beyond). Since 2004, 11 annual conferences have been organized (see table 3). In the coming years, the IMISCOE annual conferences will be held in Geneva (2015), Prague (2016) and Rotterdam (2017).

Table 3: IMISCOE annual conferences

The first two annual conferences were organized according to a fixed format with two day plenary sessions followed by afternoon cluster workshops. However, this format changed at the third conference, when more time was granted to other activities of IMISCOE, like feasibility studies workshops, cross cluster workshops and policy events. When IMISCOE became an IRN, there was less budget for the annual conferences. However, the member institutes decided to continue their support for the conferences at the own cost, and they decided to install a conference fee. Since 2009, the academic format of the IMISCOE conferences has become most prominent, with open calls for papers and panels and a quality review board for assessing submitted proposals. In 2014, IMISCOE also re-introduced workshops besides panels at the annual conferences; this included book workshops as well as policy-oriented workshops. IMISCOE’s research groups and standing committees have a ‘fixed’ place at the IMISCOE conferences.

4. Publications <<< 5. Events >>> 6. Training and awards

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