The Romanian Re-Place team is actively involved in organizing the 5th International Conference of the Romanian Network for Migration Studies (RoMig), which will take place in Sibiu, Romania, from October 30 to November 1.

The 22nd IMISCOE Annual Conference, Decentering Migration Studies, will take place in Paris–Aubervilliers and online from July 1–4, 2025, with an expected 1,000 participants. The RePlace team will organize two panel sessions titled Left-behindness and (Im)mobility – Policies, Infrastructures, and Experiences in Variegated Contexts (1) and (2).

This conference will focus on exploring the complex relationships between society, environment and economy at local, national, regional and global scales.

From April 3 to 6, 2025, Lisbon hosted the festival A Arte de Ser Migrante, curated by Liliana Azevedo (ISCTE-IUL) and Amandine Desille (a RePlace member). Organized in partnership with the cultural association Largo Residências and supported by CEG-IGOT, among others, the festival explores the intersections of Portuguese migration and artistic practices.

Re-Place team represented by Mendoza, Cristóbal. Presentation: “Neo-endogenous local development and immigration in rural Spain: Winning and losing regions: Regions of success and decline”

Re-Place team represented by Domínguez-Mujica, Josefina. Keynote speaker: “Crisis and migration: a dialectical relationship in peripheral island spaces”.

Upcoming 2025 IMISCOE PhD School

The Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT) at the University of Lisbon, in cooperation with the Critical Heritage Studies Hub at Jagiellonian University, will host the upcoming IMISCOE PhD School next August 2025.