Conferences

Thirteenth Biennial MESEA Conference
Moving Cultures, Moving Ethnicities

June 12-14, 2024
University of Eastern Finland
Joensuu Campus, Joensuu

Twelfth Biennial MESEA Conference
Communities of Engagement: Contesting Borders, Barriers and Walls in the Era of Climate Crisis

May 26-29, 2022
University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN),
Cyprus Campus, Pyla, Larnaka, Cyprus

Eleventh Biennial MESEA Conference
Ethnicity and Kinship: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Family, Community, and Difference

May 30 – June 2, 2018
University of Graz, Austria

Tenth Biennial MESEA Conference
Cultural Palimpsests: Ethnic Watermarks, Surfacing Histories

June 22-24, 2016
University of Warsaw, Poland

Ninth Biennial MESEA Conference
“Crossing Boundaries in a Post-Ethnic Era – Interdisciplinary Approaches and Negotiations”

May 29 – June 1, 2014
Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken Germany

Eighth Biennial MESEA Conference
Media and Mediated Performances of Ethnicity

June 13-15, 2012
Blanquerna School of Communication, Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain

Seventh Biennial MESEA Conference
Travel, Trade, and Ethnic Transformations

June 16-19, 2010
University of Pécs, Hungary

Sixth Biennial MESEA Conference
Migration Matters

25-28 June, 2008
University of Leiden, The Netherlands

Fifth Biennial MESEA Conference
Ethnic Life Writing and Histories

18–20 May, 2006
University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

Fourth Biennial MESEA Conference
Ethnic Communities in Democratic Societies

20–23 May, 2004
Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece

Third Biennial MESEA Conference
Sites of Ethnicity: Europe and the Americas

26–29 June, 2002
University of Padua, Italy

Second Biennial MESEA Conference
Founding MESEA Conference (Second MELUS-Europe Conference)
Europe and the United States: Comparative Ethnic Literatures

22–25 June, 2000
University of Orléans, France

First Biennial MESEA Conference
Founding MELUS-Europe Conference

25–28 June, 1998
University of Heidelberg, Germany