Special Lecture: Research on Gender and Forced Migration in the Global North 1993-2023: Shifting Paradigms?

Date: 18 April 2023
Time: 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Venue: S101 SERD Building, AIT, Thailand/ Hybrid

Zoom Link: bit.ly/3nHyY4Z

Meeting ID: 230 233 5171

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The Department of Development and Sustainability is pleased to invite you to the Special Lecture titled: Research on Gender and Forced Migration in the Global North 1993 – 2023: Shifting Paradigms?  by Dr. Lydia Potts.

Speaker

Dr. Lydia Potts, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany.

Bio

Dr. Lydia Potts is a social scientist with specialisation in migration studies as well as in gender studies. She teaches at Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany and has vast experience in transnational research, teaching and curriculum development with European, Asian and African partners. Since 2011 she is the primary coordinator of the EMJM European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations (emmir.org) run by a consortium of nine partners, including European and African universities and in India RBU and CRG.

Her main fields of research are global migration and gender, migrant families, migration and ageing, single migrant mothers, and travel literature by women. She was a visiting teaching staff in the US and held an HCM-fellowship at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is co-founder of the Centre of Interdisciplinary Research on Women and Gender at the University of Oldenburg. Her books include:  The World Labour Market: A History of Migration and a co-authored volume in German on women – flight – refuge (Frauen – Flucht – Asy ) Co-edited books include: Womens’ Studies im internationalen Vergleich and Societies in Transition: Challenges to Womens’ and Gender Studies. There is a volume on women’s travel literature: Aufbruch und Abenteuer: Frauen-Reisen um die Welt ab 1785 and she also coedited Mann wird man: Geschlechtliche Identitäten im Spannungsfeld von Migration und Islam, a publication on masculinity, migration and Islam as well as more recently  Kabbo Ka Muwala: The Girl’s Basket. Migration and Mobility in Contemporary Art in Southern and Eastern Africa.