Deadline: April 1, 2023
University of California, Berkeley, CA/USA
September 18–19, 2023
Field Trip: Sitka, AL/USA
September 20–24, 2023
The Pacific Office of the German Historical Institute Washington invites proposals for papers to be presented at the seventh Bucerius Young Scholars Forum, which will be held at UC Berkeley, September 18–19, 2023. We seek contributions from post-doctoral scholars, recent PhDs, as well as those in the final stages of their dissertations with a background in the humanities or social sciences. The Forum will be connected to a field trip to Sitka, Alaska, from September 20–24, 2023.
The Bucerius Young Scholars Forum, funded by the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, is an annual program designed to bring together a transatlantic group of approximately ten scholars based in Germany, Europe, North America, and beyond to explore new research in the history of migration.
The 2023 Forum focuses on Indigenous migration. During the past decades, growing numbers of Indigenous people have left their ancestral lands. Persistent violation of their land rights and the disproportional impact of environmental and climate changes have forced them to move into unfamiliar urban or rural environments. The impacts of this mobility on communities and individuals have been manifold. Migrants have faced abuse and discrimination, grappled with the loss of material and spiritual connections to land, and struggled with the changing meanings of indigeneity in relation to other identities. Non-indigenous communities, in turn, have begun to debate their response to these newcomers and their responsibility in causing the social, environmental, and climatic changes coercing new migratory flows.