Lucie Lamy, the Potsdam-based Research Fellow for our “University Students as Migrants” project, is collaborating with Giulia Scalettaris and the Centre Marc Bloch (CMB) in Berlin in hosting an interdisciplinary colloquium entitled “Moving across Europe as Non-Europeans: Meso-Level Analysis of Mobility Regimes in the 20th and 21st Centuries”. The event is taking place on 6 and 7 July 2026. Details on the location are available here.
The conference’s focus on mobility regime ties in with a key strand of our own project. Moreover, both Lucie and the Newcastle-based Research Fellow for our project, Henry Dee, will speak at the event, sharing their ongoing research for our project as part of a panel on “Cold War Europe and the ‘Third World’: Non-Europeans at Western Universities”.
Monday 6 July
2:45 PM–3:15 PM
Introduction by the organizers, Giulia Scalettaris (Centre Marc Bloch – CMB) and Lucie Lamy (Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam – ZZF)
3:15PM–5:15PM
Session 1 – Mobility and Exclusion in the First Half of the 20th Century: Drawing the Boundaries of European Societies at City Scale
Adèle Sutre (Institut Convergences Migrations, CNRS) – Mobility regimes of Romani family groups around the World (1880–1960): Between Movement and Settlement
Julia Harnoncourt (University of Graz) – Performing Europe: Non-European artists, moral implications and mobility regimes in interwar Luxembourg
Discussant: Christina Reimann (Humboldt University Berlin / CMB)
Tuesday 7 July
8:30AM–10:30AM
Session 2 – Cold War Europe and the ‘Third World’: Non-Europeans at Western Universities
Henry Dee (Northumbria University) – The political economy of diverging intra- and extra-European student mobility, 1960s-1990s
Lucie Lamy (ZZF Potsdam) – Students, refugees or migrants? How African and Asian students’ cross-bloc mobility challenged the West German Cold War order and migration categories in the 1960s
Discussant: Guillaume Placide-Breitenbucher (Strasbourg University / CMB)
11:00AM–01:00PM
Session 3 – The Origins of Fortress Europe: German(ies) as a Laboratory of the Schengen System Beyond the Caesura of 1990
Ned Richardson-Little (ZZF) – The globalization of the narcotics trade on the borders of German(ies) and the rise of Fortress Europe
Lennart Vincent Schmidt (ZZF) – From registry to regime: Digital infrastructures and the governance of non-Europeans in postwar Europe
Discussant: Carolin Liebisch-Gümüş (ZZF)
02:30PM–04:30PM
Session 4 – Negotiating the Borders of Europe: Non-State Actors and Migrant Networks in Turkey and Italy
Emilio Caja (University of Lisboa) – The ghetto and the errants: The circular mobilities of legally precarious West African migrants across Europe
Alexander Ephrussi (CMB) – Acting out the citizen: Humanitarianism on unsteady ground
Discussant: Giulia Scalettaris (CMB)
