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Sunday, June 1st, 2008UW-Madison Postcolonial, Migration and Transnational Studies
(Part of Worldwide Universities Network (WUN)
International Network in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies)
International Conference on Diaspora and Cosmopolitanism
June 20-21, 2008
Diaspora and Cosmopolitanism
An International conference to be held June 20-21, 2008 at the University of
Wisconsin, Madison
http://africa.wisc.edu/postcolonial/
Conference Description
The term “diaspora” designates the scattering of a given population like
seeds (spore) on the wind through migration-conventionally often in the form
of forced migration rather than its opposite. The term “cosmopolitanism”
refers to the politics and philosophy of inhabiting a polis or political
community on the scale of the cosmos rather than the metropolis. Both
paradigms thus constitute alternatives to models of community in which a
society is organized around a single geographic space, with the metropole at
its center. While diaspora studies are generally associated with the
identities and claims of marginalized populations, cosmopolitanism has, in
the words of Amanda Anderson, “close ties with universalism.”
Cosmopolitanism, Anderson notes, “endorses reflective distance from one´s
own cultural affiliations, a broad understanding of other cultures and
customs, and a belief in universal humanity.” Recently, Anthony Appiah has
suggested that cosmopolitanism in the wake of globalization is virtually
inevitable through not only the cultivated praxis of reflective distance as
a means of accommodating a world of difference, but also the quotidian
praxis of mimetic acquisition of diverse cultural tastes, behaviors, and
relationships in globalized societies. Yet histories of the non-integration
of migrants, of the hostile co-existence of “hosts” and “guests” in the
state framework, or of the explosion of national populations into new
traumatic diaspora through economic, military, ecological, and cultural
upheavals, provide challenges to political and philosophical models of
cosmopolitanism.
Full Text at
http://www.africa.wisc.edu/postcolonial/postcolonialdescription.htm
Speakers
http://www.africa.wisc.edu/postcolonial/Speakers.html
Forwarded on behalf of Tejumola Olaniyan tolaniyan@wisc.edu
‘Fís Ghaeilge Mheiriceá Thuaidh’: NY, 16-18 May 2008
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008Glór na nGael is organising a conference in New York aimed at developing a vision for the growth of the Irish language in North America. It will be attended by Irish-language speakers from the US and Canada, as well as from Ireland. There will be panels on such topics as “Irish support to American groups”, “Developing the Irish language vision in North America”, “Support from the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs”, and “Local, National and International – Working Together”.
Organisers say:
Fís Gaeilge Mheiriceá Thuaidh is a unique opportunity to meet with people involved with Irish language events. It will also allow people to learn about language planning and funding.
Fís Gaeilge Mheiriceá Thuaidh intends to give Irish associations, in America and Canada a stage to dicuss their future regarding the promotion of the Irish language in North America with voluntary and state organisations from Ireland. One of issues that this conference aims to raise is the establishment a central office in North America for Irish language matters.
The conference will be held in the Affinity Hotel on the 16-18 May.
For more information, visit the Glór na nGael website.
New Media & the Global Diaspora. Rhode Island, 2-4 Oct 2008
Thursday, May 8th, 2008The organisers of the New Media and the Global Diaspora have issued their call for papers.
The 2008 New Media & the Global Diaspora Symposium at Roger Williams University is an interdisciplinary humanities conference addressing the global migrations of the past 100 years and the role media has played in transmitting ‘living traditions,’ particularly as these traditions are subject to loss, gain, and interpretation. What impact do media have on the forging and sustaining of cultural identities? How can the humanities guide us to understand why ‘living traditions’ are at the nexus of questions about the global diaspora? This three-day event will feature paper and roundtable sessions, an International concert, and culminate in a tour of Newport, Rhode Island, a significant immigrant destination for nearly 400 years.
The symposium is a plenary experience; no overlapping presentations will be scheduled. Symposium participants hear all presentations and stay for the entire program in order to build the kind of feedback and informal discussions that mark the nature of this event. Most presentations are given a time slot of 20 minutes. This format allows for a respondent and audience questions. We are very pleased that the proceedings of this symposium will be published in our new peer-reviewed journal Reason & Respect: civil discourse in a global context, to be published beginning Fall 2008.
The organizers of the 2008 Symposium invite the submission of position papers addressing one of the following topics:
- Locating Interdisciplinarity: Technology and the Humanities
- Real Places-Virtual Spaces: Creating Cultural Communities
- Exploring Gender at the Crossroads of Media and Culture
- Seeing Diaspora: Media, Community and Visual Rhetoric
The deadline for papers is 15 June 2008.
Enquiries: roconnell@rwu.edu
Web address: http://newmediasymposium.org
Sponsored by: Roger Williams University
Wavelengths: Irish and American Music. UCD: Sept 2008
Thursday, May 8th, 2008The UCD Clinton Institute for American Studies will host a conference exploring musical links between Ireland and the US.
Organisers say
This event has been conceived a by a group of scholars, musicians and producers to provide a focus for performance and study of Irish and American musical relations. These relations have a long and deep history, intertwining the cultures and identities of Irish and American peoples. The event will explore and celebrate these relations via a programme that combines conference presentations and musical performances.
Wavelengths will focus on the back-and-forwards movement of musical traditions between Ireland and the United States and identify newer currents and fusions in transatlantic music. We invite proposals for conference presentations – individual papers and panels. Conference themes will include, but will not be limited to:
- Race and ethnicity
- Nation and identity
- Class and work
- Innovators (performers, technicians, collectors, commentators)
- Emigration and diaspora
- Historical events
- New technologies
- Scotch-Irish influences
- Genres – traditional, folk, country, rock, jazz, soul, Celtic punk, hip hop…
- Social functions of music
- Representations of music in other media – film, photography, literature
Brief abstracts (200 words) plus a short biographical statement should be sent to Catherine Carey at Catherine.Carey@ucd.ie by 1st June 2008.
See the UCD Clinton Institute for American Studies website.
Lecture: The Irish in Britain. London, Feb 21
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
Irish historian Ultan Cowley, an Ean member, will give a talk on “The Irish in British Construction: A Symbiotic Relationship?” The lecture will be held at the Irish Cultural Centre in Hammersmith, on 21 February at 7:00 (with refreshments at 6:30).
The talk will focus on how the Irish played such a major role in the British construction industry, will explore their contributions, and discuss what cost those contributions came at.
Ultan Cowley is the author of “The Men Who Built Britain: A History of the Irish Navvy”.
For more information, click on the flyer.
Children and migration: Cork, April 2008
Monday, January 28th, 2008The Marie Curie Migrant Children Research team at the Department of Geography, University College Cork will host “Children and Migration: identities, mobilities, and belonging(s)” from April 9 to 11, 2008.
Organisers are aiming to provide an integrated and interdisciplinary forum for discussion of recent research and policy developments from a wide range of perspectives, with a common focus on children’s own experiences of and perspectives on migration, diaspora and transnationalism.
More than 80 papers will be presented by researchers from over 20 countries across a variety of disciplines. Papers, lectures, panel discussions and posters will include topics such as transnational childhoods, children and the asylum system, second generation youth, diversity and education, multilingualism, and children’s rights. The event is funded by a Marie Curie Excellence Grant.
Keynote speakers will be Katy Gardner of the University of Sussex on “Diasporic childhood: transglobal children in east London”, and Jill Rutter of the UK’s Institute for Public Policy Research on “Changing patterns of child international migration in Europe: challenges for research, public policy and practice”.
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