Lived Experiences in Contested Places: Governance and Humanitarianism
International Workshop
Kraków, 11–12 March 2027

We invite submissions for the international workshop Lived Experiences in Contested Places: Governance and Humanitarianism, to be held in Kraków on 11–12 March 2027. The workshop is organised by the Taube Centre for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences at Jagiellonian University, the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford, and the Centre for the Study of Ethnic Conflict at Queen’s University Belfast. It brings together two bodies of scholarship that have largely developed in parallel: research on contested places, including divided cities, disputed territories, segregated spaces and borderlands, and research on contested lives, focusing on migrants, displaced populations, returnees and the diverse spaces they inhabit and navigate.

Keynote speakers

• Ivan Gusic, Department of Government, Upsalla University
• Tom Scott-Smith, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit their work for consideration for publication in a potential special issue to be guest edited by the workshop organisers.

We invite abstracts of approximately 300 words and a short biography of 100 words to both aleksandra.zdeb@uj.edu.pl and fabricio.carrijo@uj.edu.pl

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for abstract submission: 11 December 2026

Notification of acceptance: 21 December 2027

Submission of draft article: 05 March 2027

Workshop: 11-12 March 2027

Please find all the relevant information in the attached document