4th Global Conference (2011)

4th Global Conference

Monday 4th July – Wednesday 6th July 2011
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom

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

Monday 4th July 2011
From 12.30
Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Ram Vemuri

14.00
Session 1: Challenges
Chair: Clive Barstow

Shrinking spaces and widening distances: A contradiction in contemporary India
Sayan Sengupta

Children of the Chinese Diaspora: Constructing Chineseness in Australia
Yujia Wang

Diasporic Cultural Challenge
Fewzia Bedjaoui

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 2: Alleviation/ Alienation
Chair: Jonathan Rollins

From “Black” to “Brown”: Situating the Indian “Diaspora” in South Africa
Jordache Ellapen

Singing Home: Re-locating Scottishness in Diaspora
Josephine Dougal

Diaspora, Identity and Community: Caribbean Immigrant Organizations in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA)
Janine Rose

17.30
Notices and Announcements

17.40
Wine Reception

Tuesday 5th July 2011
09.00
Session 3: Complexities
Chair: Sayan Sengupta

Aliens in the Motherland: Indo-Caribbean immigrants in London, 1950-2000
Jerome Teelucksingh

Diaspora, Identity and Media
Kamille Gentles-Peart

Jewish- Israeli subjects in the Diaspora: Negotiating collective identity between Zionist ideology and diasporic reality
Yuval Moshkovitz

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 4: Redefinitions
Chair: Janine Rose

Gendering Diaspora: Revisioning Home/ Redefining the concept
Newtona (Tina) Johnson

Encountering the Third Space: a study of identity and hybridity through trans-cultural artistic practice in Australia and China
Clive Barstow, Yan Zhang

The Importance of Minority/Majority Origins in Diasporas’ Research: The Israeli Case
Elyakim Kislev

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 5: Defining and Identifying Middle Eastern Christian Diaspora(s)
Chair: Fiona McCallum

Middle Eastern Christian Immigrant Communities as Diasporas
Fiona McCallum

Far from Aram-Nahrin: The Suryoye Diaspora Experience
Marta Wozniak

‘Without our Church we will disappear’. The Syrian Orthodox in Diaspora and the family law of the Church
Annika Rabo

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 6: Middle Eastern Christian Diaspora(s) (contd.)
Chair: Fiona McCallum

Immigrants or Diaspora? On periodically selective transnationality among Copts in Europe
Lise Pualsen Galal

16:30
Session 7: Searches
Chair: Josephine Dougal

The Swinging Door Dance of a Chinese White Kid, or ‘yes but where are you really from?’ : Questions of Diaspora in Fred Wah’s Diamond Grill
Jonathan Rollins

How to make Europe/EU multicultural: A User’s guide
Hatice Sitki

17.30
Sessions End

Wednesday 6th July 2011
09.00
Session 8: Revisiting Identities
Chair: Fewzia Bedjaoui

Rootedness and Globalisation: Identity and Belonging in M.G. Vassanji’s In-Between World of Vikram Lal
Jarius Omuteche

The Kosovar Diaspora in Switzerland: cultures, identities and senses of belonging
Marta Cola & Manuel Mauri Brusa

Language, people and Migration: the Language Biography as a Cultural Identity Construct
Florin-Teodor Olariu

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 9(a): Strategic Responses
Chair: Yujia Wang

Migration, Identity and the loss of English as a second language among elderly migrants in Brisbane
Roderick Neilsen

Lebanese-Australian youth making art/making collective identities
Sherene Idriss

Hong Kong: A Transit Diaspora for Nepalese
Alka Sharma

Session 9(b): Contributions
Chair: Shahadat Khan

A study of conceptual metaphors used by Malaysian University students in their writing on the 1Malaysia conceptGwynedd Owen & Seng Tong Chong

Which Nation do I belong to? How middle class Indian women in Malaysia negotiate diasporic identity and local nation building.
Sally Anne Malar Param

Poverty Alleviation through Enhanced Usage of Migrant Remittances
Shahadat Khan & Amanullah Khan

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 10: Search and (Re) search
Chair: Kamille Gentles-Peart

Search for identity and security in Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea
Hossein Sabouri

Social identification among Israeli migrants’ descendents in North America: Is it diasporic, assimilitative or transnational?
Lilach Lev Ari

The Political Empowerment of the Cuban Diaspora in Miami: Comparing the Involvement of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Generation of Cubans
Marie Laure Mallet

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 11: Quests
Chair: Jerome Teelucksingh

Making English Our Own: Ethnolects in Toronto’s Diasporas
Allyson Eamer

Diasporic Anxiety: Resituating the Self in Randa Abdel Fattah’s “Does My head Look Big in This?”
Sagar Dan

17.00
Development meeting and closing remarks

18.00
Conference Ends