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JUNE 30

10:00 – 10:30 | Welcome and opening remarks by Seyla Benhabib and Ayelet Shachar

Panel 1. RIGHTS: Rethinking national and international human rights protection
Chair: Ayelet Shachar

10:30 – 11:30
Hiroshi Motomura (UCLA), “Reflections on the Relationship Between Refugee Protection and Immigration Policy”
Michael Doyle (Columbia University), “When States Cannot Protect their Citizens from the Climate: Climate Induced Migrants and the Protection of Forced Migrants in the Model International Mobility Convention”
11:45 – 12:45
Cathryn Costello (Hertie School), “Flight from Ukraine, Group Protection and Equality between Refugees”
Paul Linden-Retek (University at Buffalo), “‘Safe Third Country’: A Theory of a Dangerous Concept and the Democratic Ends of International Human Rights”

Panel 2. GOVERNANCE: Democratizing shifting borders
Chair: Benjamin Boudou
 
14:00 – 15:30  
Svenja Ahlhaus (University of Hamburg), “Invited, Invented, and Inverted Representation of Refugees beyond Sovereign Borders”
Eva-Maria Schäfferle (Goethe University Frankfurt), “Justice and Democracy in Migration: A Demoi-cratic Bridge towards Just Migration Governance”
Frédéric Mégret (McGill University), “Should Refugees be Allowed to Choose Where They Claim Asylum?”
16:00 – 17:00  
Paulina Ochoa Espejo (Haverford College), “Three responses to shifting borders: Sovereigntism, cosmopolitanism, and the Watershed Model”
Elizabeth Cohen (Syracuse University), “Temporality, Bordering, and the Rights of People Seeking Refuge”

JULY 1

Panel 3. TERRITORY: Reconceptualizing the geography of states 
Chair: Seyla Benhabib
 
10:00 – 11:30  
Nishin Nathwani (Yale University), “The Materiality of Territory”
Matthew Longo (Leiden University), “Against Gulliver: Linear Borders, Territoriality and the Problem of Naturalness”
Itamar Mann (University of Haifa), “What is maritime legal thinking?”
11:45 – 12:45  
Dana Schmalz (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law), “The role of proximity for states’ obligations towards persons seeking protection”
Marcus Carlsen Häggrot (Goethe University Frankfurt), “Deterritorialised Legislatively Constituencies: A Conditional Defence”

Panel 4. BORDERS: Tracing transnational power relations 
Chair: Eva-Maria Schäfferle
 
14:00 – 15:00  
Anna Jurkevics (University of British Columbia), “Private Borders, Hidden Territories”
Sibel Karadağ (Koç University), “Degrees of Temporality, Cycles of Mobility: The Case of Turkey”
15:15 – 16:45  
Marie-Eve Loiselle (University of Toronto), “UNHCR and Biometrics: Refugees’ Rights in a Legal No-man’s Land?” 
Ayten Gündoğdu (Barnard College), “On the Lawful Lawlessness of Borders: Rethinking Extra-territorialization as a Technique of Racialized Governance”
E. Tendayi Achiume (UCLA), To Be Confirmed