MICS – Turkey and Eurasia

A Nordic network for scholars within the humanities and social sciences on Migration, Identity, Communication, and Security (MICS)

About MICS
MICS is a network for Nordic and Eurasian scholars within the humanities and social sciences.
More specifically, the rationale is to promote cooperation and scholarly advances within issues pertaining to Migration, Identity, Communication and Security in Eurasia. These four, closely intertwined, processes denote key societal challenges which scholars and practitioners alike will need to confront continuously within the foreseeable future.

The primary form of activity within MICS are international workshops (one for each letter of the acronym) for invited participants from all academic career stages, from PhD students to established full professors.

The program of activities will be formulated and implemented by a Swedish-Danish core team consisting of senior scholars from the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, Malmö University, Roskilde University and the Danish Institute for International Studies.

The program activities will largely take place at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, which is a natural and strategic location, given that Turkey is both a central point for observations and a crucial ground for analysis with regard to the confluence of and interaction between the four MICS processes in Eurasia. The workshops will be located to Istanbul, Malmö and Copenhagen.

More about the project, see the project outline (in Swedish), link til pdf af projektbeskrivelsen

Activities
The main activities of MICS is a series of in total 4 workshops taking place over 2 years.

WS1: Identity
“National Identity versus Transnationalism: Turkey and Eurasia”
When: 25-27 June, 2014
Venue: SRII, Istanbul

WS2: Migration
When: November 2014
Venue: MAH, Malmö

WS3: Security
When: June 2015
Venue: DIIS, Copenhagen

WS4: Communication, concluding workshop
When: October/November 2015
Venue: SRII, Istanbul

Members
MICS is a collaboration between SRII, Roskilde University, Malmö University and the Danish Institute for International Studies, DIIS. A steering committee consisting of a representative from each of the participating institutions is responsible for the activities.

The members of the steering committee are:

  • Birgit Schlÿter, Director, SRII
  • Hans-Åke Persson, Professor, RUC
  • Bo Petersson, Professor, MAH
  • Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke, Senior Researcher, DIIS
  • Marie Cecilia Brobeck, project leader, MAH/RUC

Contact
For more about MICS and its activitites send an email to mics@sri.org.tr or to the members of the steering committee.

DIIS Experts

Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke
Foreign policy and diplomacy
Head of unit, Senior researcher
+45 3269 8938