Migration as an internal movement and as an international process perforating the borders of nation states has been increasing worldwide since the 1980s and is not an exceptional phenomenon, but the norm. The working group, which was founded and established in Munich in 2013 under the umbrella of the Ulm Association for Art and Cultural Studies (Ulmer Verein für Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften), has set itself the goal of investigating the entanglements of migration and globalization as a significant phenomenon of social transformation in the 20th and 21st centuries in its role for art studies research, curatorial theory and practice as well as artistic production.

The digital lecture series Migratory Lectures explores these global contexts by bringing together international scholars, artists, curators and institutions from different locations in dialog with each other.