Research projects of Urmila
Goel
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2023
2022
- "Not a question of categories. Researching masculinities from an intersectional perspective", Workshop: Researching Migrant Men & Masculinities: Unpacking "female" researcher identity in knowledge productions, Trento, 02.12.22.
- "Challenges of Decentering the German perspective in German Studies. Doing research on the nurse migration from India to Germany", Traveling Academy De-Colonizing Knowledge – Views from India and Tunisia, Delhi, 24.11.22
- "Care, Migration, Gender. An analysis of the nurse recruitment from Kerala to West Germany and its consequences", ICAS:MP Colloquium, Delhi, 18.10.22.
2021
2019
- "The consequences of a denied work permit. On husbands joining their working wifes in Germany", Conference: Globordered Intimacies: Immmigration and Gendered Labor, Family and Personal Relationships, Tel Aviv University, 18.06.19.
2018
2016
2015
- "The Indernet - From internet portal to Facebook", Research Factory, Viadrina Centre B/Orders in motion, Frankfurt/Oder, 04.11.15.
2014
- "Intersectionality as a perspective of analysis", Workshop: Intersectionality and Domination. French and German perspectives of complex power relations, Berlin, 06.-08.11.14.
- "Thoughts on Identity Politics in and from Germany", Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin, 07.06.14
2013
- "Challenges in the analysis of heteronormativity - exemplified by the migration of nurses from India to Germany", Workshop Gender & Migration, Rosa-Luxembur-Stiftung, Berlin, 12.10.13
- "The recruitment of workers - German migration histories", Berlin Workshop "Multiculturalism in historical perspective", Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung, Berlin, 24.09.13.
- Roundtable: "Internationalizing our Academic Work: The Interstices of Power, Geography and Space" (with Radhika Gajjala, Shakuntala Banaji and Yeon Ju Oh), ICA Precoference: "From Feminism with a Feminist Agenda: Digital Interventions to Incite Change in Publishing, Pedagogy, the Academy and our Networks", London, 17.06.13.
- Heteronormativity and natio-ethno-cultural belongingness - (implicit) norms on the internet portal Indernet, Konferenz: Transnationale Räume und Geschlecht, Universität Paderborn, 04.04.13.
- "Racism and Heteronormativity: Debates in Germany", Rosa Luxemburg Seminar: "The Intersection of Sexism and Racism - Developing Feminist Strategies", Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Tel Aviv in cooperation with Achoti - for Women in Israel, Tel Aviv, 25.02.13
2012
- "Issues in critical migration research, critical racism theory and critical whiteness studies in Germany",Comparative Women's and Gender Studies in Europe, Antioch University, Berlin, 10.10.12.
- "The virtual space of belongingness Indernet - A long-term observation", Digital Crossroads, Utrecht, 29.06.12.
- "Free Razan - the pitfalls of international support", International Workshop subtil? wie sexualität rassisisert wird, Berlin, 23.04.12.
- Discussant in the Forum on Online Research in Practice, International seminar on “Indian Transnationalism Online: Ethnographic Explorations”, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, A.P., India, 27th March 2012.
- "Indernet 2011 – reactivated and changed", International seminar on “Indian Transnationalism Online: Ethnographic Explorations”, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, A.P., India, 26th March 2012.
- "About the Amina Hoax and Free Razan - the Arab revolutions, social media and international attention", Iwalewa-Haus, University Bayreuth, 03.02.12
- "Using the internet in research - Methodological challenges" (as pdf), Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies, Bayreuth, 02.02.12
2011
- "Privileging the West - Constructing the German" (together with Kathleen Heft), Comparative Women's and Gender Studies in Europe, Antioch University, Berlin, 19.09.11.
- Centre for Gender Studies, University of Lund, Sweden, 07.-11.03.11
- "Discourses on 'arranged marriages' in Germany - on the interdependency of racism and heteronormativity", Masters Gender Studies, 08.03.11
- "On the interdependency of racism and heteronormativity - challenges for research", Public Seminar, 09.03.11
- "The construction of the Indian woman in Germany - on the interdependency of racism and heteronormativity", Bachelor Gender Studies, 10.03.11
2010
2008
2007
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"Representing the Other - Spaces of Belongingness in an Othering Society"
together with Synnøve Bendixsen (as
pdf),
14th Nordic
Migration Researchers' Conference, University of Bergen, 14.11.07.
- "Indian religions in
Germany - Their role for the children of the migrants" (as
pdf),
Department of the History of Religions, University of Bergen, 10.10.07.
- "Using the internet in research - Methodological challenges" (as
pdf),
Seminar, Masterprogram i religionsvitskap, University of Bergen, 14.09.07.
- "Discourses on 'arranged marriages' in Germany - On the interdependency of
racism and heteronormativity" (as
pdf),
FEMCIT- seminars: Intimacies,
University of Bergen, 13.09.07.
- “The Indernet - An own space
in a racist society“ (as
pdf),
IMER/Bergen Exploring Diversity –seminars, University of Bergen, 19.06.07.
- "Arranged marriages' - Dealing with racist and heteronormative discourses in Germany" (as pdf), Monday Seminar, CULCOM, University of Oslo, 16.04.07.
2006
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"Partying in a Sari - The dilemma
of 'white' presence at 'Indian' dance parties
in Germany"
(as pdf), Conference:
The Borderpolitics of Whiteness, Sydney, 13.12.06.
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"Shifting boundaries on the internet:
Strategies of 'second generation Indians' in Germany" (as
pdf),
Malaysia and Singapore Society, 14th Colloquium,
Boundaries and
Shifting Sovereignities: Migration, Security Issues and Regional Cooperation,
UNE, Armidale. 01.12.06.
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"Dealing with experiences of racism: The German internet portal
Indernet" (as
pdf),
UTS: Transforming Cultures,
Sydney, 15.11.06.
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"Classical, dance, bollywood and the Indernet - Cultural practices among
'Indians of the second generation' in Germany" (as
pdf), CAPSTRANS workshop:
Culture, identity and performance: Diaspora South
Asians, University of Wollongong, 13.11.06.
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"Indians in Germany - The imagination of a community" (as
pdf),
Asia Centre, UNE,
Armidale, 07.11.06.
- "The Indernet - Negotiating 'Indianness' in German" (as
pdf),
CAPSTRANS, University
of Wollongong, 19.10.06.
- 'Indianness' as refuge - Constructions of
belongingness among 'migrants of the second generation" (Folien
als pdf),
Workshop Landscapes of Meaning, Trans/forming Cultures, University of
Technology Sydney, 18.10.06.
- "The Indernet - Negotiating 'Indianness' in German" (as
pdf),
Internationalizing Internet Studies, Brisbane, 27.09.06.
- "Black or White or something else? - Subjective
Attempts at Positioning" (as
pdf),
Black European Studies in Transnational Perspective, 2nd International
interdisciplinary Conference, Berlin, 29.07.06
- "Critical Whiteness Studies - Relevance for the research project" (as
pdf),
Forschungskolloquium: Postcolonial Theory and Anthropology, Collegium
Polonicum Slubice,
25.01.06.
2005
- "Continued significance of the national - The internet portal
www.theinder.net" (as
pdf),
Conference: The Making of 'World Society': Transnational Practices and Global
Patterns, Universität Bielefeld, 24.11.05.
- "The virtual second generation - On the negotiation of ethnicity in the
internet" (as
pdf),
Leverhulme Programme on Migration and Citizenhip, University
of Bristol, 17.03.05
- "The virtual second generation - On the negotiation of ethnicity in the
internet" (as
pdf), Centre
for Ethnic Minority Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University
of London, 15.03.05
- "Queer India - Impressions from Lesbian Activism", SOAS, University of
London, 14.03.05.