Early Career Research Symposia

Organised by the German Academic Exchange Service, together with partner organisations and the network of DAAD Research Ambassadors in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka, the ECR or Early Career Research symposia offer a platform for early career researchers to showcase their work in their subject fields. These aims to recognise and facilitate synergies amongst researchers and exchange of ideas in the wider fields of knowledge.

2024

Cross-Border Mobility

15-17 July 2024
Online

Organisers

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Regional Office, New Delhi
Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies, New Delhi
ICAS:MP Metamorphosis of the Political, New Delhi

Jointly organised by the DAAD and its partner organisations, the symposium will offer an excellent opportunity to early career researchers to showcase their work in the overarching subject of Cross-Border Mobility. It aims to recognise and facilitate synergies amongst researchers and exchange of ideas in the wider fields of humanities and social sciences. It will offer a wide spectrum of inter- and multidisciplinary topics on cross-border mobility by engaging early career scholars, junior researchers, research fellows and academics. If you belong to this target group, then this symposium is an ideal platform to help you propel your research and amplify its reach. Present your papers and receive feedback by the scientific community. The symposium guarantees diverse and insightful perspectives.

About the Symposium

The topic of the symposium Cross-Border Mobility is a term witnessing and gaining rapid momentum in our society in recent times. This collaborative symposium is dedicated to creating opportunities and synergies for young and budding researchers to not only share their research approaches but also to promote knowledge exchange and collaboration within the research community. During the symposium the selected early career researchers can present their research work to an international audience and discuss with experts.

The symposium addresses a wide spectrum of inter- and multidisciplinary topics of cross-border mobility with the focus on five distinct fields of inquiry:

Refugees and Irregular Migration
Law and Migration
Narratives of Migration
Migration and Education
Labour Migration (incl. Health)

Eligibility

Early career researchers from South Asia, Germany, and Europe who work on topics related to India, South Asia, Germany and Europe. Doctoral students and postdocs, who completed their doctoral defence no more than two years ago, are eligible to apply.

Call for Papers

To register and submit your abstract, please take the following survey
https://www.daad.de/surveys/919374?lang=en

8 Sep 2022

The symposium aimed to recognise and facilitate synergies amongst researchers and exchange of ideas in the wider fields of humanities and social sciences. It offered a wide spectrum of inter- and multidisciplinary topics on resilient societies by engaging early career scholars, junior researchers, research fellows and academics.

Resilience – a term often highlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic and in current debates surrounding the impact of climate change and violent conflict – constitutes a highly ambiguous concept, one that nevertheless forms one of the most important needs for societies, impacting international conflict and cooperation, national and local politics, individual and household behavior as well as social interaction.

The topics covered were:

(Public) Health, Bodies and Emotions
Poverty, Inequality and Development
Sustainability and Ecological Crises
Governance, Institutions, State-building and State Failure
Crisis, Conflict, Violence and Trauma
Urbanity and Urbanisation

The German Academic Exchange Service, the Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies and ICAS:MP Metamorphosis of the Political thank all the experts, scholars and students involved.