Jul 03 2026
Workshop 4: Mobility, Borders, and Rights
Our concluding workshop will be held by Leti Volpp and Marco Wan on the topic of Mobility, Borders, and Rights.
This seminar will focus on mobility – of persons, texts, and legal concepts – and on questions of borders and rights.
Our first session will consider the tightening of border regimes in relation to the erosion of democratic norms and the criminalization of migrants in order to consider the shifting semantics of democracy and legality, cultural representations of rights and belonging, and the role of rights discourse in migrant struggles.
Special guest: Dr. Maurice Stierl, Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, University of Osnabrück
Our second session approaches mobility as a key issue in the study of law and the humanities. What happens when legal texts, concepts, and/or persons move into new cultural contexts? We will consider familiar questions such as translation, narrative, and interpretation in a global frame. Students will be encouraged to reflect upon how questions of mobility and circulation might structure their own research.
