Cultural Encounters - Commodity Chains - Labor Migration: World Regions - Transnationalities - Transidentities - Hybridities - Diasporisation
- Ort: Leipzig
- Beginn: 27.10.10
- Ende: 29.10.10
- Disziplinen: Literaturwissenschaft, Medien-/Kulturwissenschaft
- Sprachen: Sprachenübergreifend
Section II, IAFSL/FFSL: Transnationalities – Transidentities – Hybridities - Diasporisation
The conference will debate the cultural processes of migration, border crossing, diasporization and a new understanding of concepts like nation or identies in the context of globalization.
Program:
27/10/2010
Hall of the "Alte Nikolaischule", Nikolaikirchhof 2
18:00
Reception with Inaugural Addresses
Mr. Burkhard Jung, Mayor of the City of Leipzig
Prof. Dr. Franz Häuser, Dean of the University of Leipzig
Prof. Dr. Matthias Middell, Director of the Centre for Area Studies of the University of Leipzig
Prof. Dr. Alfonso de Toro, Director of the Ibero-American and the Francophone Research Center of the University of Leipzig
Opening Conference
John Beverley (University of Pittsburgh): "Aporias of Latinamericanism: The ‚Red Tide’ and the Neoconservative Turn"
28/10/2010
Lecture hall building, lecture hall 16
9.00 – 9.45
Manuela Consonni (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): "Is the concept of ‘Diaspora’ changed after WW II?"
9.45 – 10.30
Alfonso de Toro (Universität Leipzig: "Globalization and diaspora"
10.30 – 11.15
Michael Rössner (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien): "Translating Diaspora"
11.15 – 11.30
Coffee break
11.30 – 12.15
Teófilo Altamirano Rúa (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú): "Remittances and local development in Mexico and Peru"
12.15 – 13.00
Wai Chee Dimock (Yale University, New Haven): "Translating Islam: Paul Bowles and Others"
13.00 – 15.00
Lunch break
15.00 – 15.45
Michelle Habell-Pallán (University of Washington, Seattle): "Transnational Politics of Representation in Post-911 Latino Music"
15.45 – 16.30
Crister Garrett (University of Leipzig): "Latino Voters and the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election: Evidence of an Emerging Transcultural Americas?"
16.30 – 16.45
Coffee break
16.45 – 17.30
Reda Bensmaia (Brown University): "Gilles Deleuze borderline(s)"
17.30 – 19.00
Open Round Table discussion by Representatives of different German Centres for Area Studies at the Seminar Room 202
29/10/2010
Lecture hall building, lecture hall 16
9.00 – 9.45
Amaryll Chanady (University of Montreal): "The flâneur takes the metro: the intercultural production of locality in the global city"
9.45 – 10.30
Brad Epps (Harvard University): "Memory (De)colonized: Donato Ndongo, Equatorial Guinea, and Spain"
10.30 – 11.15
Dieter Ingenschay (University of Humboldt of Berlin): "(Post)Coloniality – Migration – Literature, in Spain"
11.15 – 11.30
Coffee break
11.30 – 12.15
Cornelia Sieber (University of Leipzig): "Strategies of writing back in narrations of illegal migration to Spain”
12.15 – 13.00
Gabriele Pisarz-Ramírez (University of Groningen): “I suspect we got lost while crossing the border: Canadian Latino/a Writers and Latino Studies"
13.00 – 15.00
Lunch break
15.00 – 15.45
Christopher Larkosh (University of Massachussetts): "Writing ‘Across the Current’ of Transnational and Border Studies"
15.45 – 17.00
Closure of the section and discussion
Univ.-Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Alfonso de Toro
Ibero-Amerikanisches Forschungsseminar
Frankophones Forschungsseminar
Institut für Romanistik
Universität Leipzig
Beethovenstr. 15
D-04107 Leipzig
sekretariatdetoro@rz.uni-leipzig.de
Tel.: 0049(0)341 9737490
Fax: 0049(0)341 9737498
Publiziert von: jd