Debates about Immigration

Debates about Immigration:
American and European Experiences in a Comparative Perspective

An International Symposium Organized by Center Austria: The Austrian Marshall Plan Center for European Studies and the Institute for Contemporary History, Innsbruck University in Celebration of the University of Innsbruck’s 350th Anniversary Conveners: Günter Bischof and Dirk Rupnow.

When: May 23-24, 2019
Where: The University of New Orleans, Earl K. Long Library, 407

Program:

May 23, 2019

• 8:45 am
  Opening Remarks
  Marc Landry, Associate Director, Center Austria, University of New Orleans
  Dirk Rupnow, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and History, University of Innsbruck
  
  

• 9:00 – 10:30 am
  Discourses on and Construction of Regulating (Im)Migration
  Chair: Marc Landry, University of New Orleans
  Madeline Y. Hsu, University of Texas at Austin
  Klaus Neumann, University of Melbourne/Hamburg
  
  

• 10:30 – 10:45 am Coffee Break
  
  

• 10:45 – 12:15 pm
  Walls and Borders
  Chair: Dirk Rupnow, University of Innsbruck
  S. Deborah Kang, California State University San Marcos
  Bernd Kasparek, University of Munich/Göttingen
  
  

• 12:15 – 1:15 pm Lunch Break
  
  

• 1:15 – 2:45 pm
  Infrastructures/Legal Structures/Spaces of Liminality
  Chair: Jana Lipman, Tulane University
  Beth Lew-Williams, Princeton University
  Philipp Strobl, University of Hildesheim
  
  

• 4:00 – 6:00 pm Tour of the French Quarter (Optional)

• 6:00 pm Conference Dinner

May 24, 2019

• 8:45 am
  Welcome
  John Nicklow, President, University of New Orleans
  
  

• 9:00 – 10:30 am
  Deportations/Return Migration
  Chair: Andreas Oberprantacher, University of Innsbruck
  Jana Lipman, Tulane University
  Judith Welz, University of Innsbruck
  
  

• 10:30 – 10:45 am Coffee Break
  
  

• 10:45 – 12:15 pm
  Experiences of Living in a Precarious State
  Chair: Philipp Strobl, University of Hildesheim
  Sarah Fouts, University of Maryland-Baltimore County
  Andreas Oberprantacher, University of Innsbruck
  
  

• 12:15 – 1:15 pm Lunch Break
  
  

• 1:15 – 3:15 pm
  Concluding Panel Discussion
  Chair: Dirk Rupnow, University of Innsbruck
  Representatives, Congress of Day Laborers, New Orleans
  Vicko Mareliċ, University of New Orleans
  Maria Pabon, Loyola University/New Orleans
  Kathleen Gasparian, Gasparian Spivey Immigration
  
  

• 6:00 pm Concluding Conference Dinner