Visualizing Mobility Regimes Otherwise. Multimodal Mapping Symposium

15.06.2026 – 16.06.2026
9:00 – 17:00

Tillion Saal

This gathering brings together ethnographic and collaborative multimodal works that move beyond hegemonic visual representations of mobility. It explores embodied, infrastructural, and historically layered experiences of movement, as well as the unequal power relations that shape contemporary mobility regimes. Drawing on multimodal anthropology, critical migration and border studies, and a range of creative, participatory, and sensorial methodologies, the symposium develops more horizontal, multivocal, and co-produced forms of knowledge. It asks how contemporary mobilities can be represented without reproducing the dominant structures that regulate them, such as the state and what has been described as the National Order of Things.

Programm

DAY 1 

15 June 2026

 

9:00 AM – 10:10 AM 

Introduction – Moving beyond hegemonic visual representations 

  • Giulia Scalettaris (Marc Bloch Zentrum/AMORE) and Nina Khamsy (University of Neuchâtel/AMORE): Introduction
  • Elena Isern (Marc Bloch Zentrum/AMORE): Visualizing Afghanistan and Afghan Mobility Across European Media

 

10:20 AM – 12:30 PM

Session 1 – Multimodal tools to map otherwise  

  • Grégoire Le Gall (EHESS/Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne): Ukrainian Familial Trajectories in the ‘in-between’ of Russia and Poland, a Cartographic Interpretation
  • Behrouz Keyani (University of Picardie Jules Verne): Representing the Precarity of Immigrants Going Through the French Administrative System: Insights from Sequence Plots
  • Nina Khamsy (University of Neuchâtel/AMORE): Navigating the Balkan Data Circuit: Some Afghan perspectives
  • Discussion: Sebastian Cobarrubias (ARAID Foundation)

 

2:00 PM- 4:15 PM 

Session 2 – Coproducing visuals 

    • Hassina Khusrawy (Bordeaux Montaigne University): Mapping Dwelling in Exile: Mental Mapping and Inhabited Surveys among Afghan Exiles
    • Pauline Portet (Aurore association): Sensitive Cartography as a Tool for Expressing Migration Experiences with Asylum Seekers in Social Work Practice 
    • Khadija Abbasi (SOAS University): Stitching Stability: Embroidery Through Layered Displacement.
  • Discussion: AMORE team 

 

4:30 PM – 6:15 PM

Session 3 – Repurposing institutional databases 

  • Fred Salin (French National Institute for Demographic Studies): Seeing Like Eurostat? Challenges in Data Visualisation of Afghanistan-Related Statistics 
  • Tom Montel (Paris 8 University): Visualising Eurostat Dublin Data: Possible Practical Uses
  • Discussion: Pauline Adam (Université libre de Bruxelles/Ecole Normale Supérieure)



DAY 2 

16 June 2026

 

2:00 PM – 4:15 PM

Session 4 – Tuning into the rhythms of mobility: Filmmakers in conversation

  • Mehdi Zafari (independent filmmaker/AMORE): Living the Passage
  • Nadim Ghaderi (Copenhagen University): Third Borders
  • Discussion: AMORE team 

 

4:30 PM- 5:00 PM

Conclusion: Ways forward and ideas for future collaborations