CONFERENCE 2 JUNE 2017
International Migration: Trends and Challenges
8.00 Registration
9.00 Opening session: Welcome addresses to IUC and to the conference
Session chair: Professor Sigmund Grønmo
9.45 Global migrations: Trends and triggers
Keynote presentation by Professor Ivan Šimonović, Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on the Responsibility to Protect
Questions and comments
Session chair: Professor Krunoslav Pisk
10.45 Attitudes to immigration in different European countries
Keynote presentation by Professor Anthony Heath, University of Oxford
Questions and comments
Session chair: Professor Gunn Birkelund
11.45 Coffee break
12.15 The current refugee situation in Europe: Economic, political, social and cultural perspectives
15 minutes each for introduction, 15 minutes for discussion among panelists, rest of the time for open discussion
Session chair: Professor Milena Dragičević Šešić
13.30 Lunch
14.30 Integration of immigrants: Problems and possibilities for nation states
15 minutes each for introduction, 15 minutes for discussion among panelists, rest of the time for open discussion
Session chair: Professor Damir Boras
15.45 Coffee break
16.15 Refugees, economic migrants and climate migrants: Cross-national migration as a global challenge
15 minutes each for introduction, 15 minutes for discussion among panelists, rest of the time for open discussion
Session chair: Professor Lee Kendall Metcalf
17.30 End of the program
18.00 Cultural program (IUC Courtyard)
19.30 Dinner
16th COUNCILMEETING
Saturday, 3 June 2017
9.00 – 13.00 IUC Council meeting
13 – 13.30 In remembrance of Ivan Supek – the ceremony of naming the ground floor conference hall with the name of Ivan Supek, founder of IUC
13.30 – 15.00 Lunch
15.00 First meeting of the new Executive Committee