Early Career Research Symposia

Organised by the German Academic Exchange Service, together with partner organisations and the network of DAAD Research Ambassadors in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka, the ECR or Early Career Research symposia offer a platform for early career researchers to showcase their work in their subject fields. These aim to recognise and facilitate synergies amongst researchers and exchange of ideas in the wider fields of knowledge.

2024

Cross-Border Mobility, July 2024

15-17 July 2024
Online

Tune in to the Early Career Research Symposium for Humanities and Social Sciences (Digital) on ‘Cross Border Mobilty’.

The symposium guarantees diverse and insightful perspectives on different topics by nearly 40 presenters. For details, refer to the ECRS 2024 Programme.

About the symposium

Jointly organised by the DAAD and its partner organisations, the symposium will offer an excellent opportunity to early career researchers to showcase their work in the overarching subject of Cross-Border Mobility. It aims to recognise and facilitate synergies amongst researchers and exchange of ideas in the wider fields of humanities and social sciences. It will offer a wide spectrum of inter- and multidisciplinary topics on cross-border mobility by engaging early career scholars, junior researchers, research fellows and academics. If you belong to this target group, then this symposium is an ideal platform to help you engage with experts from the subject field.

The topic of the symposium Cross-Border Mobility is a term witnessing and gaining rapid momentum in our society in recent times. This collaborative symposium is dedicated to creating opportunities and synergies for young and budding researchers to not only share their research approaches but also to promote knowledge exchange and collaboration within the research community. During the symposium the selected early career researchers will present their research work to an international audience and discuss with experts.

The symposium addresses a wide spectrum of inter- and multidisciplinary topics of cross-border mobility with the focus on five distinct fields of inquiry:

Refugees and Irregular Migration
Law and Migration
Narratives of Migration
Migration and Education
Labour Migration (incl. Health)

The symposium will involve an expert committee of high-ranking scientists from the social sciences and humanities (Names in alphabetical order):

Dr Yamini Agarwal, Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies (MWF)
Prof. Dr Ummu Salma Bava, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)
Prof. Dr Alexander Fischer, O.P. Jindal Global University
Prof. Dr Eva Gerharz, Hochschule Fulda, Germany
Prof. Dr Stefan Horlacher, Technical University Dresden, Germany
Prof. Indrani, Gupta Institute of Economic Growth (IEG)
Dr Christian Strümpell, Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies (MWF)
Prof. Narender Thakur, Delhi University (DU)
Associate Prof. Amit Upadhyay, O.P. Jindal Global University
Prof. N.V. Varghese, National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA)
Dr Jan-Helge Weidemann, Delhi University (DU)

Dr Farhat Naz, IIT Jodhpur
Dr Amar Agarwal, IIT Roorkee

Societal Transformations for a Resilient Future

8 Sep 2022

The symposium aimed to recognise and facilitate synergies amongst researchers and exchange of ideas in the wider fields of humanities and social sciences. It offered a wide spectrum of inter- and multidisciplinary topics on resilient societies by engaging early career scholars, junior researchers, research fellows and academics.

Resilience – a term often highlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic and in current debates surrounding the impact of climate change and violent conflict – constitutes a highly ambiguous concept, one that nevertheless forms one of the most important needs for societies, impacting international conflict and cooperation, national and local politics, individual and household behavior as well as social interaction.

The topics covered were:

(Public) Health, Bodies and Emotions
Poverty, Inequality and Development
Sustainability and Ecological Crises
Governance, Institutions, State-building and State Failure
Crisis, Conflict, Violence and Trauma
Urbanity and Urbanisation

The German Academic Exchange Service, the Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies and ICAS:MP Metamorphosis of the Political thank all the experts, scholars and students involved.