Global Migrations: Histories, Everyday Lives, and Epistemologies

HUM:Global Flagship Initiative by Fabio Santos and Marie Sandberg, Saxo Institute.

This event is a HUM:Global Flagship initiative roundtable with Hilal Alkan, Käte Hamburger Centre for Cultural Practices of Reparation, Saarland University, Cristiana Bastos, Universidade de Lisboa, Martin Fotta, Czech Academy of Sciences, Mahardhika Sjamsoe’oed Sadjad, Maastricht University, and Keren Weitzberg, Queen Mary University of London.

The roundtable discussion is a part of an international workshop for the Flagship initiative of the same title that brings together scholars from different disciplines and with complementary regional expertise. The goal of the day is to facilitate exchanges across area expertise, methods, and positionalities to identify shared research priorities and develop a roadmap toward larger collaborative funding proposals.

The focus of the collaboration will be three-fold: 1) the histories of global migrations and their entanglements with empire, labor, and nation-building, 2) the everyday lived experiences of migrants and how they have circumvented borders, negotiated constraints, and forged new forms of belonging, and 3) the epistemologies through which migration is studied, represented, governed – as well as the forms of knowledge produced by migrants themselves.

No registration required.

About the HUM:Global Talks! series

This talk is part of the HUM: Global Talks! series of Spring 2026. The series consists of talks, seminars, and events at the Humanities at the University of Copenhagen.