Seminar organisers: Collegium of Socio-Economics, SGH Warsaw School of Economics
• Regional and Local Policy Unit
• Department of Political Studies
• General Sociology Unit
Date: 8th of November 2024
Time: 11:00 am – 4:00 pm (11:00 – 16:00)
Location: SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland,
Aleja Niepodległości 162, Warsaw, main building (Building G), room 152
Agenda:
10.15-11.00 Registration and coffee
11.00-11.15 Opening of the seminar, welcoming the participants, introduction
11.15-13.00 Session I
Moderator: Marta Pachocka, PhD (SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland)
• Melissa Moralli, PhD (Department of Sociology and Business Law, University of Bologna, Italy), Welcoming spaces and inclusive communities - lessons from the project ‘Welcoming Spaces’ in Europe: revitalising shrinking areas by hosting non-EU migrants
• Inna Melnykovska, PhD (Central European University, Austria), (Un)Welcoming Spaces: How Participatory Democracy Falls Short in Germany’s Refugee Accommodation Policies
• Karolina Podgórska, PhD (Institute of Sociology, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland), Welcoming spaces and communities as challenges for Polish cities
• Q&A
13.00-13.30 Coffee break
13.30-15.20 Session II
Moderator: Joanna Zuzanna Popławska, PhD (SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland)
• Katarzyna Górka-Sosnowska, Prof. (SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland), Challenging discourse about Islam and Muslims in Poland
• Michał Nowosielski, Prof. (Centre of Migration Research, Poland), Integration policy at the local level - challenges, actions, actors - a case study of Warsaw
• Natalia Mindowicz (Union of Polish Metropolises), Creating Welcoming Spaces for migrants. Challenges and barriers - lessons from Wrocław
• Janina Owczarek (IOM - International Organization for Migration – Poland), Create inclusive, open and safe cities and villages - good practice IOM Poland
• Q&A
15.20-15.30 Closing remarks
15.30- 16.00 Lunch
Please register by 5th November at https://forms.office.com/e/rdkFjaJCa7
The number of places is limited.
The order in which applications are received will determine the outcome.
Key speakers:
Melissa Moralli is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology and Business Law, where she teaches Creative Methods and Social Innovation. She holds a Phd in Sociology and Social Research on social innovations and cultural processes. She was visiting scholar at CRISES (Centre de Recherche sur les Innovations Sociales, Montréal), IPK (Institute for Public Knowledge, New York University), CRISES Redifined (University of Jyväskylä, Finland), MESOPOLHIS (Aix-Marseille University, Sciences Po Aix, CNRS), MUCEM (Museum of the Mediterranean, Marseille). She is PI of the international project “Collaborative imaginaries on territories in change across Europe”. She was senior researcher in the project „Welcoming Spaces. Revitalising Shrinking Areas by Hosting Non-Eu Migrants” (H2020) and “Atlas of Transitions. New Geographies for a Cross-Cultural Europe” (CreativeEU). She is author of many books and articles on migration, artistic production, social innovation, creative methods. She co-founded the research collective „Reimagining Mobilities” on critical approaches to different mobility regimes through creative practices.
Inna Melnykovska is an Assistant Professor in Comparative Political Economy at the Political Science Department at Central European University. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the Free University of Berlin in 2016. She studied International Relations and Economics in Ukraine. Before joining CEU Inna was a postdoctoral fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. Also, she worked as a research and teaching fellow at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, at the Universities of Kiel and Giessen and at the Free University of Berlin.
Inna’s research is about the interaction of global, regional and local forces in the shaping of modern political regimes and economic systems in developing countries. She addresses these issues by focusing on the transition experience of the states in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. She is an expert on the dynamics of state-business relations and crony capitalism in the region. In addition, she works on regional economic integration initiatives driven by the EU, Russia and China as well as foreign policies in Eurasia. Her research has been published in Journal of Common Market Studies, Europe-Asia Studies, and Post-Soviet Affairs, among others.