Conferences

We are pleased to share with you the attached call for papers for the First ACMRL Conference on Migration Law, taking place at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam on 18–19 June 2026.

This is a reminder to submit proposals to a new IMISCOE event – the 2026 IMISCOE Forum.

We’re delighted to announce the launch of the Call for Papers, Panels, and Workshops for the IRIS 2026 international conference, titled Unsettling Communities: Diversity, Mobility and Displacement in an Age of Growing Authoritarianism. 

Yonsei University, Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE), Bank of Korea and the Asian Development Bank, together with the World Bank Development Economics Group and the French Development Agency (AFD) request paper submissions for the 19th International Conference on Migration and Development to be held on 16-17 April 2026 in Seoul, South Korea. 

You are invited to submit a paper proposal for the conference ‘Identities and Law: How the Law Shapes the Senses of Belonging.’ 

Livable Cities 2026 is an international and interdisciplinary conference and publication series. Bringing together universities and scholars globally, it examines diverse readings of the history, culture, design, management and experience of life in cities. Previous conferences in have been held in New York, London, Bangalore, Lisbon, Barcelona, Calgary and elsewhere. The 2026 annual conference to be held on 17-19 June, 2026, is organised with the University of Salford, Manchester, UK. It is subtitled ‘Critiquing the Urban Renaissance’. 

The ASEAN Research Center at the Asia School of Business is pleased to announce the sixth ARC-UNHCR Conference on Refugee Studies and Forced Displacement (REFCON 2026), organised in collaboration with UNHCR Malaysia, the UN Refugee Agency. The 2026 conference is tentatively scheduled for 9–11 June 2026 and will be held at the Asia School of Business in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 

DG Migration’s Strategy & Liaisons Team is pleased to invite you to the annual State of the Art conference. The conference aims to facilitate the conversation on key migration issues among scholars, policymakers and other professionals in the field of migration. The goal of the conference is to bring these different groups together and to exchange knowledge through dialogue and reflection. This year’s theme is Looking ahead: migration policy in the long term. 

Those who may be interested in hosting the next International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) conference in 2027 are invited to submit a short expression of interest online: https://crs1.apps01.yorku.ca/machform/view.php?id=97003 

DG Migration’s Strategy & Liaisons Team is pleased to invite you to the annual State of the Art conference.