The Global Migration Center is pleased to invite you to its new event series, ‘Migration Talks’. This series of lectures has been designed of allow guest speakers from a variety of disciplines to present their works on the topic of migration and engage in discussion with the broader Graduate Institute community. This represents a unique opportunity for students, doctoral candidates, and researchers to network, discuss research, and foster interdisciplinary intellectual engagements over the crucial topic of migration in its multiple nuances.

About the speaker

Prof. François Héran is the chair of Migrations and Society at the Collège de France in Paris and Director of the Institute ‘Convergences Migrations’. Director of the Human and Social Sciences Department at the French National Agency for the Research (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) between 2014 and 2016 and previously President of the European Association for Population Studies between 2008 and 2021. PhD in Sociology and Anthropology, his research interests cover themes such as International Migration, Discrimination, Religious Institutions and Anthropology of Family. He authored and edited a number of books and articles among which ‘Le Temps des immigrés. Essai sur le destin de la population française. Paris : La République des idées / Seuil’ (2007), ‘Avec l’immigration. Mesurer, débattre, agir. Paris : La Découverte’, (2017), and ‘Controlling immigration. A comparative perspective. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 4th edition’ (co-dir. avec James F. HOLLIFIELD, Philip L. MARTIN et Pia M. ORRENIUS)’ (2022).