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PENS-318: Border Forensics

Summary

This course introduces forms of violence linked to state borders and social boundaries in Switzerland. Drawing on the work of Border Forensics, it presents transdisciplinary investigative methods from geostatistical analysis to (auto-)ethnography used to document and contest this violence.

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Instructors (5)

Mathias Lerch

Ass. Prof. Mathias Lerch heads the Urban Demography Laboratory (URBDEMO) at the Faculty of Natural, Architectural and Build Environment (ENAC), Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). To improve understanding of urban population growth, Lerch has developed multi-disciplinary research interests in the components of demographic change (mortality/health, fertility and migration), as well as in their interactions with socioeconomic and environmental developments. Before joining the EPFL, Lerch has acted as the deputy head of the Laboratory of Fertility and Well-Being at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. He has analyzed and taught population change at various Swiss and German universities, as well as at statistical offices, often in transition countries. Since 2008, he has regularly advised national governments, United Nations entities, survey programs and NGOs on population issues and data collection.

Stanislas Hugo Werner Michel

Tomislav Levak

Elio Simon Panese

Munia Hassoun

Official source

Moodle Page

http://go.epfl.ch/PENS-318

Summary

Lectures

Instructors (5)

Mathias Lerch

Stanislas Hugo Werner Michel

Tomislav Levak

Elio Simon Panese

Munia Hassoun

Official source

Moodle Page

http://go.epfl.ch/PENS-318

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