3rd Global Conference (2010)

3rd Global Conference

Wednesday 7th July – Friday 9th July 2010
Mansfield College, Oxford

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

Wednesday 7th July 2010
from 12.30
Registration

13.00
Welcome and Opening Words
Sivaram (Ram) Vemuri

13.20
Session 1: Longing, Belonging and Imaginations
Chair: Sivaram (Ram) Vemuri

Being an Immigrant in an ‘Imaginary’ Homeland: Negotiating Identities and the Role of Language
Eleni Mariou

The Uses of Nostalgia in the ‘Imaginations’ of the Diaspora: The Case of the New Pontic Greek Refugees
Georgia Lagoumitzi

14.00
Session 2: Memberships
Chair: Jonathan Rollins

‘Are we still Homeless?’ Am ‘I’ Still Part of ‘We’?
Charlene April Clempson

The African Diaspora in Italy: Study on Perceptions, Attitudes and Practices of the African Elite in Italy for the Development of Africa
Anna Ferro

Researching Identity in Cultural Membership Categories: The Benefits of a Narrative Psychological Framework in Understanding Cultural-hybridity as a ‘Society of Mind’
Jennifer Munsie

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 3 (a): Inscriptions and Articulations
Chair: Sharmani Patricia Gabriel

The Great Immigrant Experiment: An Exploration of Cultural Hybridity in White Teeth
Dhanashree Thorat

A Chinese Diaspora Beyond Rivers and Lakes: Journeying through Jianghu in Chinese Literature and Films
Helena Yuen Wai Wu

The Return to Roots: A Study of M.G. Vassanji’s The Assassin’s Song
Ranjana Tripathi

Session 3 (b): Introspective Creations
Chair: Anna Ferro

Constructing Home, Constructing Self: The Case of the Reconstruction of the Diasporic Iranian National Identity through Literature
Sanaz Fotouhi

Loyalty Beyond Borders: On Moscow’s Security Agenda in Europe and its Implications for the Russian Diaspora Since 1991
Rachel Le Noan

Fractured Portraits
Sarah Jameson

17.30
Notices and Announcements

17.40
Wine Reception

18.30
Dinner

Thursday 8^th July 2010
09.00
Session 4: Spaces
Chair: John Hawley

Culture, Belonging and Collective Imaginations: A Reading of Chitra Divakaruni’s  Queen of Dreams
Uma  Jayaraman

Remembering Home – Forced Migration and Spatial Frameworks for Memory
Mattias Ekman

Displacement and Re-Membering: Diasporic Identity in Contemporary Turkish German Literature
Maria-Theresia Holub

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 5: Dominating Forces
Chair: Wei-Chun Wang

Ethno-Diasporic Existence and Theory: Bourdieuvian Framework for Theorising Macedonian Ethno-Diversity
Irena C. Veljanova

Citizens, Immigrants and Diasporas: Australia and Japan
Stephen Alomes

Diaspora as a Contentious Locus of Nation
Anne-Sophie Bentz

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 6(a): Influences
Chair: John Hawley

Diaspora Politics Before and Beyond the Homeland: British Jewry’s ‘Foreign Policy’ towards Persecuted Jewish Communities
Barak Levy-Shilat

The Austrian Model of Muslim Integration and its Limits
Cornelia Caseau

Session 6(b): Negotiations
Chair: Divya Padmanabhan

Examining the Role of Geographical Place in the Digital Age – A Case  Study of the Chinese International Students
Wei-Chun Victoria Wang

Dynamics of Somali Migration and Integration in Urban Johannesburg: A Perspective from Two Somali Migrant Sub-Groups
Zaheera Jinnah

Alternative Multicultural Subjectivities? Indochinese Cosmopolitanisms in Western Sydney
Ashley Carruthers

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 7:  Modalities
Chair: Jennifer Munsie

The Sarajevo Haggadah: A Cultural Metaphor for Diaspora Studies
Marianne David &Javier Munoz-Basols

The Websites of Greek-American Diaspora
Angeliki Koukoutsaki-Monnier

Language Hybrids in Post-Colonial Contexts: A Case of Bhojpuri
Pratima Sambajee

17.30
Sessions End

Friday 9^th July 2010
09.00
Session 8: Choices
Chair: Maria-Theresia Holub

The Bitter Taste of Exile as Muse
John C. Hawley

Serial Diasporas and In-Between Worlds: Homes, Host Countries and the Place of Narrative in the work of M.G. Vassanji
Jonathan Rollins

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 9(a):  Reconsiderations
Chair: Ashley Carruthers

Rise of Global Terror and (Re) formulations of Muslim Identity Since September 11
Muhammad Safeer Awan

Between Exilic and Diasporic: The Case of the Lebanese Novel in the West (North America, Australia and Europe)
Assmaa M. Naguib

The (Re) Turn of the Native: Diaspora, Transnationalism and the Re-Inscription of ‘Home’
Krishna Sen

11.00
Session 9(b):  Strategic spaces
Chair: Stephen Alomes

‘Next Generation’ Migrants: Negotiating Contested Identit(y/ies) – Understanding the Construction and Contestation of Identity Among Second Generation Pakistani youth in Thorncliffe Park (Toronto, Canada)
Mahreen Nabi

The Phenomenon of Dual Nihilism among British Muslim Youth of Bradford, England: Beyond Diasporic and Heagmonic Identity
Saeed A. Khan

Strategies of Sharing Trauma in Contemporary Caribbean British Poetry
Monica Manolachi

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 10:  Post Colonial Examples
Chair: Pratima Sambajee

Contesting States and Multiculturalisms: The Third Space of Belonging in Contemporary Second-Generation British-Asian Literature
Sharmani Patricia Gabriel

Eileen Chang and the Chinese Diaspora
J.B. Rollins

‘We Ting’ in the UK: Notting Hill’s Calypso Tent and its Role in the Representations of Black Experience in Britain
Magda Konopka

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 11: Reinvigorating Identities
Chair: Krishna Sen

On Diasporic Identities Construction: Case Study on Hinduness
Mirian Santos Ribeiro de Oliveira

‘Our Own Antithesis’:  British-Jewish Identities in Contemporary Literature
Ruth Gilbert

The Impact of Diasporas in the Development of Public Policy and Economy of the Home Countries: The Case of Albanian Diaspora
Luljeta Ikonomi

17.30
Development Meeting
Closing Remarks

18.00
Conference Ends