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06.09.2010

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

 

Von:  Annegret Richter

Publiziert von: jd