Events

How do war, conflict, and insecurity shape, disrupt, and transform mobility trajectories and patterns of translocal life—within countries and across borders? This is the central question addressed in the new book “Translocal Lives in Times of Conflict – Understanding People’s (Im)Mobilities and (Dis)Connections under Conditions of Violence and War” (Open Access) published in Springer’s IMISCOE Research Series. The book, edited by Benjamin Etzold and Marie Godin, brings together contributions from scholars around the world. Its 18 chapters build an interdisciplinary bridge between migration and refugee studies, and peace and conflict studies. 

You are warmly invited to the launch of the book at our Impulse Café. Benjamin Etzold, bicc, will present the book’s central arguments and conceptual considerations as well as methodological reflections for research that moves beyond conventional linear understandings of displacement and adopts a translocal research agenda. Two chapter authors will reflect about the merits and pitfalls of working with a translocal lens in their respective research area. Katja Mielke, bicc, will share insights about Afghans’ displacement and their cross-border networks as well as the increasing restrictions on mobility and options to lead  translocal lives. Shaden Sabouni, University of Fulda, will, in turn, shift the attention to Syrian youths’ experiences of family separation and the diverging realities in translocal spaces that are shaped by both war-related displacement and societal transformations 

Join us to celebrate the launch of the book and engage with one of the editors and two contributors in a discussion about translocal lives, conflict, and emerging approaches to studying (im)mobilities and (dis)connections. 

All are welcome. We look forward to seeing you!

Date: 24 November 2026

Time: 16:00 - 17:30

Location: IMPULSE – House of Imagination and Intellectual Creativity (2nd floor), Adenauerallee 131, Bonn, University of Bonn

Language: English

Registration: not required