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Programme Day 1 | Thursday June 8
12.45 Registration
13.00 – 13.15 WELCOME
Thomas Wünsch, State Secretary for Science and Energy, Ministry of Science, Energy, Climate Protection and Environment of Saxony-Anhalt
Andreas Edel, Population Europe
13.15 – 14.00 HOW DOES THE LAW ASSESS, ADDRESS, SHAPE AND PRODUCE VULNERABILITIES OF MIGRANTS SEEKING PROTECTION?
Opening session by Marie-Claire Foblets, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, and Luc Leboeuf, VULNER research coordinator
14:00 – 14.30 POLICY KEYNOTE
Saskia Bricmont, Member of the European Parliament, introduced by Sylvie Saroléa
14.30 – 15.00 Coffee break
Sylvie Saroléa, Zoé Crine, Francesca Raimondo, Catholic University of Louvain
Discussants: Ruben Wissing, Ghent University, Audrey Pivato, Council for Aliens Law Litigation, Anthony Good, VULNER Ethics Advisor
16.00 – 17.00 LARGE-SCALE HOUSING AND VULNERABILITIES OF ASYLUM SEEKERS
Winfried Kluth, Jakob Junghans, Halle University
Discussants: Torsten Moritz, Churches Commission for Migrants in Europe, Nicolas van Puymbroeck, Belgian Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers
17.00 – 17.30 Coffee break
Giulia Garofalo, Pamela Pasian, University Ca' Foscari, Venice
Discussants: Raffaella Greco Tonegutti, Belgian Development Agency, Catherine Woollard, European Council on Refugees and Exiles, Nadja Salson, European Federation of Public Service Unions
18.30 – 19.30 THE QUAGMIRE OF VULNERABILITY IN REFUGEE AND ASYLUM LAW
Keynote by James Hathaway, University of Michigan Law School, introduced by Jean-Yves Carlier
19.30 Reception
20.30 Wrap Up
Programme Day 2 | Friday June 9
Hilde Lidén, Norwegian Institute for Social Research
Discussants: Ilse Derluyn, University of Ghent, Isabela Atanasiu, Migration and Home Affairs at the European Commission
Letizia Palumbo, University Ca' Foscari, Venice
Discussants: Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, former UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons; Enrico Somaglia, European Federation of Food, Agriculture, and Tourism Trade Unions, Suzanne Hoff, La Strada International
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 – 12.30 VULNERABILITY AND TEMPORARY MIGRATION: THE CANADIAN CONTEXT
Delphine Nakache, University of Ottawa, Anna Purkey, University of Waterloo
Discussants: Dirk Vanheule, University of Antwerp, François Bienfait, Director of ADDE: Association pour le droit des étrangers
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 14.30 CHOOSING THE MOST VULNERABLE MIGRANTS FOR RESETTLEMENT
Sophie Nakueira, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Erlend Paasche, Norwegian Institute for Social Research, Dagmar Soennecken and Ritika Tanotra, York University
Discussant: Nathalie Springuel, UNHCR
Cathrine Brun and Maria Maalouf, Centre for Lebanese Studies
Discussants: Joanna Darmanin, European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations at the European Commission; Olivier Pierre Louveaux, UNDP Brussels Regional Office, Robin Vandervoordt, University of Ghent
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break
16.00 – 17.00 THE INTERSECTIONALITY OF MIGRANT VULNERABILITIES
Francesca Raimondo and Christine Flamand, Catholic University of Louvain
Discussants: Ellen Desmet, University of Ghent, Sibylle Gioe, Human Rights Lawyer, Julie Lejeune, Belgian Refugee Council
17.00 – 17.30 DO WE NEED A NEW STATUS FOR PEOPLE SEEKING PROTECTION IN EUROPE?
Keynote by Anna Triandafyllidou, Toronto Metropolitan University, introduced by Marie-Claire Foblets
17.30 – 18.30 PODIUM DISCUSSION
Cathrine Brun, Luc Leboeuf, Hilde Lidén, Delphine Nakache, joined by Sabrina Marchetti (University Ca' Foscari, Venice), Geert Knockaert (EUAA)
Moderator: Peter Weissenburger, Population Europe
The VULNER Project has received funding from the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.