Teaching
I teach parts of courses and guest lecture in social anthropology and geography at the University of Barcelona, York University, among other universities, including:
Migration and Transnational Processes,
Gender and Identities, and
Qualitative Research Methods
Public talks and Conference Papers (selected)
Biorklund, L. Moving Archives of Disappearance: Migrant Searches and Embodied Memory Across Borders. Red Ibérica de Estudios de Memoria/Iberian Memory Studies Network Conference, Barcelona, 16-18 September 2026.
Biorklund, L. The body as moving archive: Migrant disappearances and performative searches across borders, Session: Working with remainders: traces and spectrality in justice-making processes, Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference, London, UK, 3 September 2026.
Biorklund, L. Wounded water, living borders: Agua-cuerpo-territorio and border ecologies in the Gulf of Mexico, Session: Reconceptualizing border ecologies: more-than-human entanglements, care, and (im)mobility, POLLEN Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 02 July 2026.
Hyndman, J. & Biorklund, L. There is no Dreamland: Publicly Engaged Scholarship, Liberal Violence, and the Longue Durée of Refugee Lives, Session: SC MIGPOG Special Session: Beyond the Promise: Lessons, Challenges, and Reflections of Engaged Migration Scholarship from Europe and North America, IMISCOE Conference, Girona, Spain, 1 July 2026.
Biorklund, L. Más allá del tránsito: mujeres, desplazamiento y la política del hogar ['Beyond transit: women, displacement and the politics of home], Encuentro EXODUS: Las Otras Narrativas, Escola Europa d’Humanitats, Barcelona, 20-21 May 2026, https://escolaeuropeadhumanitats.com/es/trobades/exodes-les-altres-narratives/
Biorklund, L. Agua herida, cuerpos en tránsito: extractivismo y migración en el Golfo de México [Injured water, bodies in transit: extractivism and migration in the Gulf of Mexico], Encuentro Mujeres diversas, ríos y otros cuerpos de agua, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City/online, 29 April 2026. Watch here (2:30:15 - 2:49:30): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXWFioL48Zw
Biorklund, L. Relational Territory and Embodied Displacement, Intervention on Karen Culcasi’s Displacing Territory: Syrian and Palestinian Refugees in Jordan, at the American Association of Geographers Conference, San Francisco/online, 18 March 2026.
Biorklund, L. El cuerpo como territorio en movimiento en la frontera sur de México [The body as moving territory along Mexico’s southern border], Public Lecture, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Barcelona, 18 March 2026.
Biorklund, L. ¿La nueva frontera sur? Economías geopolíticas de género en el sur de México [The new southern border? Gendered geopolitical economies in southern Mexico], Public talk, Grupo de Estudios Sobre Reciprocidad, University of Barcelona, 21 January 2026.
Biorklund, L. Gendered geopolitical economies of extractivism at the southern Mexico border, at Financialization, Extractivism and Migration Governance workshop, Toronto Metropolitan University, 28 October 2025.
Biorklund, L.The cuerpo-territorio of disappearances and performative searches across borders, at Cuerpo-territorio workshop, Department of Geography, Lund University, 19 August 2025.
Biorklund, L. Intimate bordering practices: Mestiza consciousness and art-based contestations in the Mexico-Guatemala borderlands, AT Gender conference, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, 9 July 2025.
Biorklund, L. The global and the intimate at La 72 migrant shelter in southern Mexico, at the American Association of Geographers Conference, Detroit, 24 March 2025.
Biorklund, L. Migración y género. Una etnografía multisituada y transnacional, [Migration and gender, a multi-situated and transnational ethnography], Academic Lecture at Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City, 7 May 2024. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2DARwlDXow&list=PLMjBEEGSmdaBsu_o3jbu57g7Hpls43cwA&index=6
Biorklund, L.Freedom for All Juanitas! A Body-Territory Epistemology of the Disappeared and Performative Searches, American Association of Geographers Conference, Honolulu, 18 April 2024.
Biorklund, L. La geopolítica íntima de la espera en la frontera sur [The Intimate Geopolitics of Waiting at the Southern Border], International Anthropology Conference, Mexico City, 9 August 2023
Biorklund, L. & Yousuf, B. Dialogues of Knowledges to Re-categorize Political Agency and Protection: Countering State Discourses through Feminist & Black Methods, Canadian Association for Refugees and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS) Conference, Toronto, 30 May 2023.
Biorklund, L.Gendered bordering practices: Refugee protagonism and art-based contestations in Mexico-Guatemala borderlands, Latin American Studies Association, Vancouver, 25 May 2023.
Biorklund, L.Intimate and Embodied Accounts of Mexico’s ‘Vertical Border,’ at American Association of Geographers Conference, Denver, 23 March 2023.
Biorklund, L. High-speed trains and unwanted passengers: How an ‘advancement’ project leaves refugees behind, Canadian Geography Association Conference in Toronto, 1 June 2022.