Politika, the South Tyrolean Political Science’s Association’s political yearbook, has recently been published with Raetia.
I’ve contributed an article on the Bavarian regional elections titled “Die bayerischen Landtagswahlen 2018 – Zwischen Kreuzpflicht und Grünen-Boom”. You can order the edited volume online following this link.
From March 12th-14th, 2019, the 2nd South-East African and European Conference on Refugees and Forced Migrants: Health in Diversity, Diversity in Health? that I co-organized with Dr. Sellah Lusweti from Pwani University took place in Kilifi, Kenya.
The conference presented African and European perspectives on diversity and health, focusing on an interdisciplinary approach (political science, law, economics, sociology, anthropology, medicine) in order to offer a broad analysis of different health and diversity-related issues. We will be publishing the conference papers in a edited volume with Springer VS at the beginning of next year.
In the meantime, please check out the anthology for the last refugee and migration conference in 2016 that I co-edited with Prof. Ulrich Becker and Prof. Elisabeth Wacker. The book, titled Refugees and Forced Migrants in Africa and the EU: Comparative and Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Challenges and Solutions, is available following this link or can be accessed via SpringerLink.
I’m very happy that I was asked to contribute to EUreka!, the research blog on the EU and the European Parliament elections launched by the Eurac Research Institute for Comparative Federalism.
I wrote a blogpost on political participation as a fundamental right, explaining voting rights exclusion and recent developments regarding persons with disability in Germany. My article is available following this link.
On July 20th, 2018 I was invited to present my research in the Eurac Institute For Comparative Federalism‘s In-House Seminar!
I was a guest researcher at the Institute from May to August 2018, and the In-House Seminar provided me with a great opportunity to share some preliminary findings with an expert audience.
Thanks to the researchers who came to spend their Friday with me, and for the fruitful discussion and food for thought!
My article “Between Consolidated Autonomy and Separatist Claims: a European Perspective on Present-Day South Tyrol” has recently been published in a special issue of the Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe.
You can find my paper here
The Max Planck Fellow Group held a joint workshop on Diversity in Science with the TUM Chair of Sociology of Diversity and the University of Innsbruck.
The workshop took place in Innsbruck from July 16-18th, and focused on diversity-related contexts (e.g. migration, disability) that were analyzed from different interdisciplinary perspectives (law, political science, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychology, education science).
The workshop program (in German) can be found here.
“Heimat & Welt”, the journal for South Tyroleans living abroad, did an interview with me for their May 2018 issue.
I’m very thankful to the KVW for the opportunity to share my thoughts on living abroad, being a scientist and on current socio-political developments in South Tyrol.
On May 17th, 2018, I participated in the “Planet Science Talks” Series organized by the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano and by the Südstern Planet Science Network as part of the Studium Generale offered by the university.
My presentation gave a broad introduction to the inclusion and participation of persons with disabilities in South Tyrol and Bavaria, and I was able to connect with public officials working on the subject as well as with representatives of self-representation organizations after the talk. I’d like to thank Planet Science and the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano for this valuable opportunity to share and discuss my research!
I’m delighted to announce that I will be a guest researcher at the Institute for Comparative Federalism, EURAC Research (Bozen/Bolzano, Italy) from May until August 2018.
I will be conducting field work for my research project on the political participation of persons with disabilities at the regional level, and I’m looking forward to discuss my findings with the experts at EURAC Research!
On March 22th, 2018 I gave a presentation at the kick-off event for the 2018 “Buddies for Refugees” program at TUM. I had already taken part in the first program in 2015, so I was very happy to be invited back for another talk, focusing on the political and societal events that took place in the three years since my first presentation in the buddy program.
More information on “Buddies for Refugees” can be found here.
Photo credit: Junge Akademie / Dennis Rivera