PORTFOLI(O)SSO

2025

Osso, B. N., Kivinen, T., Cambou, D., Mäntylä, S. (2025, Oct). Co-organized and presented at a panel in the Just Transition Summit (Helsinki, Finland).

Osso, B. N., Kivinen, T., Cambou, D., Mäntylä, S. (2025, Oct). Co-organized and presented at the panel ‘Unveiling Green Injustice? Indigenous Rights, Migrant Workers, and Non-Human Recognition in the Arctic Transition’ (Nuuk, Greenland).

Osso, B. N. (2025, Oct). Presented the paper ‘A Creeping Crisis of Migration Management? Institutional Responses and Implications for “Access” at the EU’s Physical, Legal, and Social Borders’ at EuroStorie Conference: Crises Redux – Europe in a Global Context (University of Helsinki, Finland).

Osso, B. N., Kivinen, T., Cambou, D., Mäntylä, S. (2025, Oct). Co-organized and presented at the workshop ‘Special Issue on Just Green Transition in the Arctic’ at Science for Sustainability 2025 (Helsinki, Finland).

Osso, B. N. (2025, Jul). Presented a paper in the panel ‘Climate Politics and Regionalism in Europe’ at the 28th IPSA (International Political Studies Association) World Congress (Seoul, South Korea).

Osso, B. N. (2025, May). Presented a paper in the panel ‘Refugee Experience in Europe and Its Consequences for Minoritization’, co-organized with Prof Reetta Toivanen, Prof Magdalena Kmak, and Assoc Prof Ayten Gundogdu, at the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting (Chicago, IL, United States).

Osso, B. N. (2025, Mar). Presented a paper in the panel on ‘Migration & asylum in expanding borderlands’ and chaired a panel on ‘The Politics of Refugees and Migrants’ at the ISA 2025 Annual Convention (Chicago, IL, United States).

Osso, B. N. (2025, Feb). Presented a paper at the International Political Sociology (IPS) Belgium Seminar Series 2024-25 (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium and Online).

2024

Osso, B. N. (2024, Dec). Presented a paper as an invited speaker at SPARG (Space and Political Agency Research Group, Tampere University).

Osso, B. N. (2024, Nov). MOBILE – Mobility Law Open Lab with Berfin Nur Osso. Presented a paper as an invited speaker at the Center of Excellence on Global Mobility Law (University of Copenhagen, Denmark).

Osso, B. N. (2024, Oct). Acted as a discussant for a paper presented at the International Political Sociology (IPS) Belgium Seminar Series 2024-25 (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium and Online).

Osso, B. N. (2024, Sep). EuroStorie Research Seminar: Berfin Nur Osso. Presented the research on ‘Narratives of Migration Management: Exploring Refugee Perspectives through Visual Art and Social Media within Transdisciplinary Legal Research’ (EuroStorie, University of Helsinki).

Osso, B. N. (2024, Aug). Presented two papers at the panels on ‘Citizen Self-formation’ and ‘The Spatiality of Migration Politics and Solidarity: From Urban to Rural Dimensions’ at the ECPR Annual General Conference (University College Dublin, Ireland).

Osso, B. N. (2024, Jun). Presented a paper on the EU’s migration management crisis and its spatial and temporal implications for refugees at a Tampere Security Research seminar (TASER, Tampere University).

Osso, B. N. (2024, Feb). Paper presented at the First Annual Critical Legal Geography Conference (Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy).

2023

Osso, B. N. (2023, Nov). The Border, the Law, the Social: The Spatiotemporality of EU’s Creeping Crisis of Migration Management and its Implications for ‘Access’. Paper presented at the seminar on ‘Critical Approaches to Studying Race and Migration in Finland and Neighbouring Regions’ (University of Turku, Finland).

Osso, B. N. (2023, Nov). Seeing with Refugees: Refugee Countervisuality at the European Union’s Border Watch in Lesvos. Paper presented at the ‘Europes in Margins’ Conference organized by EuroStorie (University of Helsinki).

Osso, B. N. (2023, Oct). Paper presented at the Digital Democracy Workshop (University of Zurich, Switzerland).

Osso, B. N. (2023, Jul). The Border, the Law, the Social: Assessing the Interplay between Int-/externalization and the Refugee Struggles of ‘Access’. Paper to be presented at the annual workshop of IMISCOE MIGCITPOL (Standing Group for Migration, Citizenship and Political Participation) (hybrid).

Osso, B. N. (2023, May). Narratives of Agency: Understanding the Refugee Experience through Paintings at the European Union’s Peripheral Borders. Paper presented at the Conference on ‘The Aesthetics of International Law,’ Central European University (Vienna, Austria).

Osso, B. N. (2023, Mar). Digital Lives vs. Digital Borders: How Do Migrants Regain ‘the Right to Have Rights’ vis-à-vis the EU’s New Big Brother?. Paper presented at the ISA 2023 Annual Convention (Montréal, Canada).

2022

Al-Taee, H., Lodenius, L., Osso, B. N., Paananen, J. (2022, Oct). Launch of the Right to Peace Advocacy Campaign in Finland. Attended the panel on the promotion of right to peace as an invited speaker (Online).

Osso, B. N. (2022, Aug). Presented a paper on the legal construction of safe third country concept and its socio-legal implications for refugees at the panel ‘Informalization of Migration Governance: Theorizing its Forms and Impact beyond the Global North’ at the General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR).

Osso, B. N. (2022, Jul). The Border, the Law, the Polis: Assessing the Interplay between Externalization and ‘Access to Right to Have Rights’. Paper presented at the 7th Global Meeting on Law and Society organized by the Law & Society Association, ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon (Portugal).

Osso, B. N. (2022, May). Law in Context and Beyond: Amalgamating the Analyses of Texts and Visual Artworks into Socio-Legal Research on the Political Agency of Refugees. Paper presented at the Early-Career Researcher Workshop on Multidisciplinary Research Methods in EU Law, University of Edinburgh (Scotland, the UK).

Osso, B. N. (2022, Apr). ‘Access to Right to Have Rights’ between ‘Safe’ Third Countries and the EU: Rights Claims and Access to Justice in the Shadow of Externalization. Paper presented at the Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) Annual Conference 2022, University of York (online).

2021

Osso, B. N. (2021, Nov). ‘Access to Right to Have Rights’ between Safe Third Countries and the EU. Paper presented at the 2nd Mirnet Conference ‘New Dynamics of East–West Migration and Migrant Integration Within Europe and Beyond’, University of Sussex (online).

Osso, B. N. (2021, Nov). Law in Context and Beyond: Incorporating the Arendtian Thought in Socio-Legal Research on the Study of the Human Rights of Migrants. Paper presented at the PhD Seminar on Human Rights Research Methods, University of Copenhagen.

Osso, B. N. (2021, Oct). ‘Access to Right to Have Rights’ Between Safe Third Countries and the EU. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Aleksanteri Institute ‘Legal Diversity and Regional Encounters: Plural Understandings of Law in Localised Contexts’, University of Helsinki (online).

Osso, B. N. (2021, Jun). Deciding ‘In’, Acting ‘Out’: The EU’s Search of the State Responsible for Migrants Elsewhere and Its Human Rights Implications. Paper presented at the Summer Seminar of the Finnish Association for Philosophy of Law (Sofy ry) (online).

Osso, B. N. (2021, Mar). Reading Weber and Arendt in the context of the EU’s externalization of migration management: A comparison of two distinct theoretical lenses on the exclusion of migrants. Paper presented at the Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) Annual Conference 2021, Cardiff University (online).

2019-2020

Osso, B. N. (2020, Sep). EuroStorie Research Seminar: Berfin Osso. Attended as a speaker to present the doctoral research at the seminar organized by EuroStorie (The Centre of Excellence in Law, Identity and the European Narratives), University of Helsinki (online).​

Haglund, M., Lenskin, M., Karvonen, M., Osso, B. N., Penny, K., Sasi, K. & Suomela, I. (2019, May). European Parliament Elections Panel. Attended the panel on the European Parliamentary elections and European Union’s foreign policy as the keynote speaker, Tampere University.

2014-2017

Osso, B. N. (2017, Mar). Success or Failure? Assessment of the Readmission Agreement Between the EU and Turkey from the Legal and Political Perspectives. Paper presented at the 6th International Students’ Symposium on Law and Global Issues, Koç University.

Osso, B. N. & Pikal, K.(2016, Sep). (De)Democratization in Turkey. Attended as a speaker the debate on the democratization process in Turkey, organized at European House, Prague, Czech Republic.

Osso, B. N. (2015, May). The Freedom of Expression and Caricature in Turkey as a Comparison to Europe. Paper presented at the 4th International Students’ Symposium on Law and Global Issues, Koç University.

Osso, B. N. (2014, Apr). Presented own caricatures about ‘the rule of law’ at the 3rd International Students’ Symposium on Law and Global Issues, Koç University.