ASYKNOW Workshop 2025
ASYKNOW hosted a two-day workshop on February 11-12, 2025, focusing on ethnography in legal settings and migration law in everyday life. The workshop aimed to generate discussions, form networks and explore future collaborations.
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Program
11th
10.00 – 10.45: Welcome by Marry-Anne Karlsen, PI ASYKNOW, UiB
10.45 – 12.00: Doing Legal Research: The Added Value of an Anthropological Sensitivity Marie-Bénédicte Dembour, Professor of Law and Anthropology at Ghent University
12.00-13.00: Lunch
13.00-14.15: On the Record: Papers, Immigration, and Legal Advocacy, Susan B Coutin, Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and Anthropology, University of California Irvine
14.15-14.30: Break
14.30 – 15.00: “Sliding suspicion”: examining the contestation of expert knowledge in Scandinavian asylum litigation, Simon Birkvad, Postdoctoral fellow ASYKNOW, UiB
15.00-15.30: Ethnographic Perspectives on Contesting Expertise in Asylum Decisions in Denmark and Sweden, Sofie Gregersen, Doctoral research fellow ASYKNOW, UiB
15.30-16.00: Witnessing Faith: The Emerging Role of Witnesses and the Negotiation of "Conversion" in Norwegian Asylum Seeker Cases, Olav Børreson Fossdal, Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo, Norway
19.00: Dinner
12th
09.00 – 10.15: Religious Expert Witnesses and the Struggle between Church and State in Asylum Hearings based on Conversion, Lena Rose, lecturer, Social and Political Anthropology, Universität Konstanz
10.15-10.30: Break
10.30-11.00: Will the real convert please stand up? Expert testimonies and the determination of faith in a Norwegian courtroom Helge Årsheim Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Religion and Ethics, University of Innland, Norway
11.00-11.30: Exploring Time in German Asylum Processes: A Spotlight on Body Time Janina Schmidt, Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Hamburg
11.30-12.00: Breaking families apart? An ethnographic case of a Syrian mixed-status family’s effort to stay together during intensified revocation practices in Denmark, Sarah-Louise Japhetson Mortensen, Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University
12.00-13.00: Lunch
13.00-13.30: Enacting legal futures through volunteer labour Kari Anne K. Drangsland, Researcher ASYKNOW, UiB
13.30-14.00: Back to migration research? Thoughts on a new project Heath Cabot, Associate Professor, Departement of Social Anthropology, UiB
14.00-14.30: The compounded embeddedness of migrants with precarious legal statuses. Ann-Cathrin Corrales-Øverlid, Postdoctoral fellow, Departement of Social Anthropology, UiB
14.30-14.45: Break
14.45-15.45: Closing discussion