Jelena Tosic ist Titularprofessorin / Ständige Dozentin für Migrationsstudien an der Universität St. Gallen. Sie war Projektleiterin des Projekts „Europe's Un/Deserving: Moralisierungen von Ungleichheit in vergleichender Perspektive“ (2021-2024, gefördert durch den SNF).
Ihre Forschungsinteressen umfassen: (Im)Mobilität, Flucht/Migration, Grenzen; Staatsbürgerschaft; Ungleichheit, Deservingness; Transkulturalität/Transnationalismus; Bildung; Tango; Methoden (Ethnographie, Historische Anthropologie/Erinnerungskulturen, Vergleichende Forschung). Regionaler Fokus: Europa (Zentral, SEE), Mittelmeeraum
Zu ihren früheren Tätigkeiten gehören: Assistenzprofessorin für Transkulturelle Studien an der Universität St. Gallen, Interims-Professorin (Staat und Transnationalismus) an der Universität Bern (2014/2015), Juniorprofessorin für Ethnologie an der Universität Konstanz (2013/2014), APART AAS-CEE Fellow der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (2011-2017) und Gastwissenschaftlerin an verschiedenen Universitäten und Forschungseinrichtungen (MPI für Ethnologie Halle an der Saale, FMK Belgrad, Center for Balkan Studies / Goldsmiths University, MMG MPI Göttingen etc).
Religion
Gender
Post-totalitarian/Post-Conflict Societies/State-Civil Society Relations
Globalization and Human Rights/Transitional Justice
(Auswahl, letzte 3 Jahre)
Konferenzen, Panels & Workshops
• Co-Convenor of the Workshop “Deservingness and beyond: Reassessing epistemologies of distribution and inequality“, October 24th and 25th 2024, University of St.Gallen, School for
Humanities and Social Sciences (with with Andreas Streinzer)
• Roundtable “The Politics of Scale: Perspectives from and on Anthropology of History”, January 26th 2024, 16-18h (zoom) (Kick-of event, EASA Network of Anthropology of History/NAoH Lecture Series,
Convenor)
• “"Where have all the workers gone?” Ideological framings of postpandemic labor regimes”, Roundtable at the 2023 AAA/CASCA Annual Meeting, November 15th-19th 2023, Toronto, Canada (Role: Chair, co-organized with Agnieszka Pasieka, Vienna/Dartmouth)
• Round Table “The migrant researcher? Reflections on academic selves, inequalities, and epistemologies in migration studies”, 20th IMISCOE Annual Conference “Migration and inequalities. In search of answers and solutions”/ Reflexivities in Migration Studies Standing Committee (Warsaw, July 3d - 6th 2023, co-convened with Sandra King-Savic)
• Panel, "Strategic alliances in entanglements of commons and noncommons" (convenors: Andreas Streinzer and Jelena Tosic), XIX Biennial IASC Conference 'The Commons We Want: Between
Historical Legacies and Future Collective Actions‘, Nairobi, Kenya June 19-24, 2023
• Panel, „ Modalities of deservingness in current solidarity spaces in Europe“ (Convenors: Violetta Zentai (Central European University), Jelena Tosic (University of St.Gallen), Margit Feischmidt (Center for Social Sciences (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Andreas Streinzer (University of St.Gallen), SIEF2023 16th Congress „Living Uncertertainty“, Brno, Czech Republic, June 7-10th 2023
• Convenor of the Roundtable „Ethnographies of Deservingness“ (Guests: Susana Narotzky, Sabine Strasser, Erik Bähre, Chair: Insa Koch), October 27th, 18h15-20h (A HSG Ethnography Talks hybrid
Event, with Andreas Streinzer)
• Convenor of the Workshop “Common(ing) Struggles” (May 2nd – 4th 2022, University of St.Gallen, Key-Note: Miriam Ticktin (New School/CUNY), with Andreas Streinzer)
Invited Talks
• Making life in "also-Europe": Care, Contribution and re-entangling perspectives on migration in Europe (December 17th, 2024), Invited Talk at the Cultural and Social Anthropology Kolloquium, University of Lucerne
• Conjunctural Perspectives on Alienation: Tango, Psychotherapy and Urban Activism in contemporary Belgrade, Workshop: Losing one’s Place in the World: Rethinking Alienation as a Diagnostic for our Time, 22 - 24 November 2023, MPI for Social Anthropoology, Halle an der Saale (organized by Annika Lems and Biao Xiang)
• Wie Privilegien funktionieren – kritische Perspektiven auf Privileg und „Deservingness“, 7. St. Galler Diversity and Inclusion Week, September 16th-20th 2023 (with Christa Binswanger)
• Common Sense of Un/deservingness: Ethnographic Approaches towards Legitimizing and Contesting Inequality (with Andreas Streinzer), Workshop “From Common Sense to Common Practices: The Timeliness of an Old Concept”, SHSS/HSG, September 15th-16th
2022, organised by Thomas Thelios
• Invited Input-Commentary at the Round Table “Doing Research in Post / Conflict Societies: Research and Ideological (Dis)Engagement” (Organisation: Sandra King-Savic, SHSS/GCE, University of St.Gallen), July 8th 2022
Konferenzvorträge
• Islands of meaning: Engaged Indifference, Authoritarianism and Class in shifting Europe(s), EASA Conference 2024, online day July 18th, Barcelona, Spain
• Occluded mobilities: urban conjunctures and border effects along the “Balkan Route”, ABS conference, “Borders, Edges and Interfaces: Pluralities and Scales”, 13-18 February, 2023, Ben-Gurion University - Eilat Campus
• Challenging privilege: incorporating the concept of deservingness into critical diversity studies, WU Gender and Diversity Conference, March 24th – 25th 2022 (with Christa Binswanger)
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