1st Global Conference (2008)

The programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Final Conference Programme (1.4c)

Saturday 5th July 2008
from 12.30
Registration

13:30
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher and S. Ram Vemuri

14.00
Session 1: Defining and Grasping Diaspora
Chair: S. Ram Vemuri

Jane Fernandez
Framing the Diaspora: The Crisis of Identity & Belonging

Julie Fletcher
Border-crossing Witnesses: Life Narrative as Testimony in the Tibetan Diaspora

Ghan Shyam
Identity, Social Roots and Empowerment: A Study of the Low Castes North Indian Diaspora in the West Indies

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 2: Diasporic Gazes: Recent Trends
Chair: Julie Fletcher

Brigit Breninger & Thomas Kaltenbacher
Tracking the Diasporic Gaze: Acquired Acts of Looking & and Plots of Identities

Theodore P. Wright (Jr.)
The Return of Diaspora to the Homeland: Israel & Pakistan compared

Andy Byford
‘The Last Soviet Generation’ in Britain: Reimagining Nationhood

17.30
Wine Reception

18.30
Dinner

Sunday 6th July
Globalization & Claims of Diaspora

08:30
Session 3(a): Negotiating Placements
Chair: Andy Byford

Davenel Yves-Marie
Are national minorities of the former USSR becoming new diasporas? The case of the Tatars of Kazakhstan

Marco Cuevas-Hewitt
From Pam-Nationalism to cosmopolitanism: Epistemological Tensions and contending Global imaginaries in Filipino Diasporic Activism

Paddy (Pat) Cavanagh
In the Shadow of the Shamrock: the tension between the Irish diaspora’s collective memory of dispossession and the reality of dispossession in colonial NSW

Session 3(b): Cinema, TV and the Media
Chair: Brigit Breninger

Nicholas Baer
Points of Entanglement: The Overdetermination of German Space and Identity in Lola + Bilidikid and Walk on Water

José Manuel Mouriño Lorenzo
The Return to Home through the (Magic) Film Image

David-Emil Wickström
The Russendisko and Music From and Of the Post-Soviet Diaspora

10:00
Coffee

10:30
Session 4(a):Cultural Constructs
Chair: Naki Osutei

Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng
Transnational Self in the Chinese Diaspora: A Conceptual Framework

Jia Gao
The Diasporisation of Contemporary Overseas Chinese: From Alienation to an Alternative Way of Life

Lana Zannettino
En/Countering the Camp: Bare life, Bio-politics and Diaspora in Australian Refugee Communities

Yasmin Fulder-Heyd
Returning to the Diaspora: Israeli Women Living in the UK – Challenges to Identity and Psychological Implications

Session 4(b): Cultural Constructs
Chair: Ghan Shyam

Natoschia Scruggs
Black, Muslim, Migrant: The Somali Diaspora of the UK

Naki Osutei
My Red, Gold and Green Bindi: The Semiotics of Identity, Authenticity and Ownership in Multicultural Canada

Young Ju Rhee
Diversity within Chinese Diaspora: “Old” versus “New” Huaqiao residents in South Korea

Sergey Ryazantsev
CIS-Countries: Tendencies, Formation of Diasporas and Impact Development

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 5(a): Literature/Food for Thought
Chair: Breda Gray

Wesam al-Assadi
Palestinian Diaspora goes global through American-Palestinian Prose

Mihai Mindra
Post Communist Identity in the Diaspora: A Success story of Ideological Colonization

Muhammad Abrar Zahoor
Migration, Settlement and Identity: A Cultural Theme of the Muslim Diaspora after Partition of India – 1947

Evgenia Gulyaeva
The Forming of Stereotypes among the Armenians in Armenia on the Cuisine of the Diaspora

Session 5(b): Institutions
Chair: Casandra Veney

Kim Sullivan
A Diaspora of Descendents?Contemporary Caledonian Society members in Melbourne, Australia – A Case Study

Mitch Avila & Edgar M. Medina
Securing Justice for Economic Refugees through Unionization

Olivier Ferrando
Diasporic Kinship vs. Civic Identity. How Institutions mobilize ethnic minorities in Post-Soviet Central Asia

Mehmet Demiray & Turgut Kerem Tuncel
Wrestling for Self-Definition in Transnational Space: A Case Study of the Identity Construction of Alevis in Turkey and Germany

16:00
Coffee

16.30
Linking Globalization & Claims of Diaspora with Making of Diasporas

Session 6(a): Role of Education, Media and Studies
Chair: Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng

Robert Crawford
A commercially Constructed identity? : The Antipodean Image in London

Ursula Troche
Diasporas, Difference and Dialogue: The Case of Africans and Europeans in London

Kent F Schull & Jeffrey M. Byford
Integration through Education: Muslims of North America and Europe

Session 6(b): Policy
Chair: Mihai Mindra

Jack Mangala
Harnessing the Power of the African Diaspora: Institutional and Policy Dynamics

Orsolya Reich
Immigration and Justice: Are Constraints Justifiable? A Global Luck Egalitarian Account

Cassandra Veney
Politics and the making of the African Diaspora in the United States

Sudheesh Bhasi
Faith and Social capital: Exploring Religious Influence in the Indian Diaspora in Multicultural Australia

18.30
Sessions End

Monday 7th July
09:00
Group Discussion 1: Globalization and Claims of Diaspora
Chair: Theodore P. Wright (Jr.)

Lead discussants:
Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng
Miloud Barkaoui
Brigit Breninger
Andy Byford

10:30
Coffee

11.00
Group Discussion 2: Making of Diasporas Discussion
Chair: Jane Fernandez

Lead discussants:
Ghan Shyam
Naki Osutei
Paddy (Pat) Cavanagh
Casandra Veney
Mihai Mindra

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 7: Moving beyond Diasporas
Chair: Lana Zannettino

Breda Gray
Moving Beyond Diaspora Conceptually and Politically – A Case Study of the Irish Diaspora

Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic
Survival of the (Un)fittest: Bosnian Post-refugee Transnationalism as a Resistance Strategy to Irish Interculturalism and post-Dayton Bosnia

Gabrilele Tomei
Sense of community, Social Capital and Co-developmental Orientation in Migrant Networks: A Survey on Foreign Students in University of Pisa

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Development Meeting

16.30
Conference Close