BelMix Seminar Series

* Organising committee (2024-2025): Cai Chen, Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot, Miyako Hayakawa, Fleurine Hermand, Mimy Keomanichanh, Gabriel Alberto Ceballos Rodriguez, and Laure Sizaire

** Chair (2023-2024): Laure Sizaire

*** Chair (2021-2023): Lucas Monteil

2025 (I)
18 April 2025 – “The ‘painful problem’ of mixed marriages and relationships: interracialised couples and the law from the interbellum to the postcolonial period (1920s–1970s)” by Betty de Hart (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
14 March 2025 – “From transnational Pakistani marriages to Brexit Couples: Studying relationship-based migration”
by Katharine Charsley (University of Bristol, UK)
14 February 2025 – “Boundary Dissolution? The (Un)Making of Individual Boundaries in Sino-Congolese Couples Residing in Congo (DRC)” by Cai Chen (Université libre de Bruxelles/LAMC)
2024 (II)
05 December 2024 – “Same-sex Marriage and Mobility in African Societies” by Apostolos Andrikopoulos (University College London, UK)
21 November 2024 – “The storytelling of heterosexual marriage in the production of the TV reality show Married at First Sight in Poland” by Aziliz Kondracki (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, France)
25 October 2024 – “Mobile Orientations: What does a focus on emotions, gender and sexuality add to the understanding of migration processes?” by Nick Mai (University of Leicester)
2024 (I)
17 June 2024 – “The reconfiguration of intimate spaces and the hierarchization of migrant women: The case of Japanese-French mixed unions in the Hauts-de-France region” by Yoko IWASHITA (CECILLE – ULR 4074, University of Lille)
13 May 2024 – “Exploring Belgian- Laotian Couples – Navigating Transnational Stereotypes: Insights into the Emotional Dynamics of Belgian-Laotian Couples” by Mimy Keomanichanh (Université libre de Bruxelles/LAMC)
15 April 2024 – “French-Japanese Marriages: A Patriarchal Revival?” by by Dr. Miyako Hayakawa (Université libre de Bruxelles/LAMC) & Kanako Takeda (EHESS, Centre Georg Simm)
4 March 2024 – “Socio-Economic Inequalities, Intimacy, and Homosexuality: Insights from Sex Work in Paris and Transnational Relationships in Haiti” by Kostia Lennes (PhD candidate in Anthropology, Université libre de Bruxelles) & Dr. Carlo Handy Charles (Assistant Professor of Sociology, the University of Windsor)
12 February 2024 – “Marital Diversity in India: Cross-Region and Cross-Border Marriages, Family and Kinship Transformations, and Gender Dynamics”
by Ankit (PhD researcher, University of Wroclaw) & Pragna Rugunanan (Professor, University of Johannesburg)
2023 (II)
04 December 2023 – “Tourism, Entrepreneurship, Gender, and Intimacy: Case Studies from Zanzibar and Cub” by Altaïr Despres (CNRS research fellow, IMAF, France) and Tommaso Pirone (PhD researcher, LISE, CNAM, France)
06 November 2023 – “Exploring Intimate Relations: A Transnational Perspective on French-men and Romanian-women Couples, and a Mixedness Lens on Intercultural Partnerships in Estonia” by Eva Renaudeau (PhD researcher, Cermes3, EHESS, France) & Gabriel Alberto Ceballos Rodríguez (PhD researcher, University of Tartu, Estonia)
09 October 2023 – “Cross-border Marriages in Japan: A Comparative Examination through Psychological and Sociological Lenses” by Dr. Dariusz Skowronski (Temple University, Japan Campus) & Dr. Viktoriya Kim (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)
2023 (I)
04 May 2023 – “Asian migrant spouses in Japan: Migration and reproduction in an ageing society” by Hélène Le Bail (CNRS; CERI, Sciences Po Paris; MSH/EASt visiting professor)
25 April 2023 – “Mixed race lives: Asian American histories of international adoption, intermarriage, and people of mixed heritage”
by Prof. Catherine Ceniza Choy (MSH/EASt visiting professor)
20 March 2023 –  “The gendered globalization of matrimonial market: Focus on French-Post-Soviet conjugalities” by Dr. Laure Sizaire, AspirE/LAMC, ULB (Belgium)
15 February 2023 – “Migrant Parent–Local Caregiver Relationships: the Glue that Binds Transnational Families Together” by Dr. Bilisuma B. Dito, Maastricht University (the Netherlands)
2022 (II)
12 December 2022 – “Qui est une « famille légitime » ? Le regard de l’administration sur la famille immigrée” by Carla Mascia, GERME, ULB (Belgium)
29 November 2022 – “Étudier la sexualité des femmes kurdes en Iran, quelles contraintes ?” by Sara Vatan Doust, EHESS (France)
2022 (I)
29 April 2022 – “Conjugal mixedness, transnational socialisation and power relations: the case of Chinese-French couples in the Paris region” by Simeng Wang, CNRS research fellow (France) and  EASt/MSH visiting professor
30 March 2022 – “Putting Foreignness into Positive Light: Male Vietnamese Migrants and The Negotiation of Sexual Desirability in Japan” by An Huy Tran, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany)
23 February 2022 – “Practices of resistance of Filipino migrant women in Germany” by Davi de Carvalho Malheiros, Dyname laboratory (UMR7367) – European Dynamics of the University of Strasbourg (France)
2021 (II)
20 December 2021 – “Distanced closeness: a study on the possibilities and constraints of intimacy in transnational relationships during the Covid-19 pandemic” by Jenthe Blockx
30 November 2021 – “Mixscape family at stake: culture and religion as ethical-moral dimension in the construction of family and public belonging” by Rosa Parisi, Università del Salento (Italy)
15 October 2021 – “Migration par le mariage : Parcours de femmes japonaises mariées à des hommes français” by Yoko Iwashita
2021 (I)
30 June 2021 – “Visible Mixedness But Invisible Couples: Study on Intimacy and Stigma of Ethnic Minority Couples in Hong Kong” by Herbary Zhang
27 May 2021 – “Becoming a national in Japan and Belgium: citizenship acquisition, ethnicity and identity negotiations” by Eline Delmarcelle

The annual program (2024-2025):