International workshop
Displaced bonds:
Belonging and rootlessness in European migration
23-24 October 2025
Getafe Campus
Room 15.1.01
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Organizers
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About
Migrations typically have a deep impact on social bonds of belonging, rootedness and rootlessness. While institutional belonging (in the sense of citizenship or nationality, for example) is typically a binary affair of being either in or out, the sense of belonging and feelings of rootedness and home are much more complicated and nuanced; they are profoundly affected in the case of displaced and migrating persons. This workshop seeks to throw light on the interactions between the institutional and experiential aspects of belonging and their impact on social and political bonds and disaffection by looking at some cases from recent European history.
Sessions will be held in both Spanish and English (see titles).
Organizers
Eleonora Bordogni
PhD student, (Des)arraigos Project, UC3M.
Antonio Gómez Ramos
Professor of Philosophy and Deputy Director of the Department of Humanities: Philosophy, Language, and Literature at UC3M; Researcher for the VI_CO Project.
Alba Montes Sánchez
Principal Investigator, (Des)arraigos Project, UC3M; Research team of the VI_CO Project.
Speakers
Program
Free admission until full capacity is reached
Thursday 23 October 2025
9:15 -9:30
Welcome and Introductions
Antonio Gómez Ramos (UC3M)
9:30 – 10:30
Cerrando el círculo: fronteras, identidades y seguridad
Juan Carlos Velasco (CSIC)
10:30 – 11:30
Emociones en movimiento: migraciones, transnacionalismo y pertenencia
Isabel González Enríquez (UCM) (online)
11:30 – 12:00
COFFE BREAK
12:00 – 13:00
Desentrañando el sentido de pertenencia: el acceso a la nacionalidad española entre lo estratégico y lo afectivo
María Caterina La Barbera (CSIC)
13:00 – 14:30
LUNCH
14:30 – 15:00
The Futures of Phenomenology of Migration: Migratory (Inter)Subjectivity beyond Waves, Swarms, and Tides
Maria Robaskiewicz (Padeborn)
15:00 – 16:00
The Object of Grief in Cultural Loss
Jelena Markovic (Grenoble Alpes)
Friday 24 October 2025
9:30 – 10:30
The Common Worldbuilding of Inhabitation on the Move
Irit Katz (Cambridge)
10:30 – 11:30
Feelings of (Non-)Belonging:
An Asymmetric Reciprocity Account
Thomas Szanto (Flensburg) (online) & Alba Montes Sánchez (UC3M)
COFFE BREAK
12:00 – 13:00
Migrants’ Perspectives as a Challenge to Liberal Theory
Corinna Mieth (Rühr Universität Bochum)
