ESF-LiU Conference
Home, Migration and the City: New Narratives, New Methodologies
6-10 August 2010
Final Programme
| Friday 6 August | |
| 17:00 - 19:00 | Registration at ESF Desk |
| 19:00 - 19:30 | Welcome Drink |
| 19:30 | Dinner |
| Saturday 7 August | |
| 08:45 - 09:00 | Welcome Address Ayona Datta, London School of Economics, UK Helena Buescu, ESF Rapporteur, University of Lisbon, PT |
| Session 1: Performing cultures of migration I Chair: Adrian Favell | |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Ulrike Meinhof, University of Southampton, UK Moving music: transnational artists and their stories |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Tovi Fenster, Tel Aviv University, IL Visualising movement: Mental maps of home and belonging |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
Session 2: Performing cultures of migration II | |
11:00 - 11:20 | Francis Jose Cuberos Gallardo, University of Seville, ES Latin American dances in Seville: uses, functions and meanings of the folklore in migratory contexts |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Eileen Hogan, University College Cork, IE ‘A sense of home’: An ethnographic exploration of migrant musicians’ narratives of identity, place and belongingness in Cork city, Ireland |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Cicilie Fagerlid, University of Oslo, NO Cosmopolitan space, place and notions of nation: Narratives of migration in Parisian performance poetry |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Questions and discussion |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| Session 3: Narrating and representing migration I Chair: Zlatko Skrbis | |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Ayona Datta, London School of Economics, UK The Translocal City: Visual narratives of home and belonging among East-European workers in London |
| 14:45 - 15:05 | Iliana Ortega-Alcazar, Queen Mary, University of London, UK |
| 15:05 - 15:25 | Carmen Fernandez-Casanueva, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Tapachula, MX |
| 15:25 - 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| Session 4: Narrating and representing migration II Chair: Iain Chambers | |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Irene Gedalof, London Metropolitan University, UK Homeplace, family and cultural reproduction in two films about migration |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Margaret Fitzgibbon, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, IE |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Naomi Tyrrell, University of Plymouth, UK ‘It is Another Part of My Life’: Children’s Narratives of Migration in the ‘New’ European Union |
| 17:00 - 17:20 | Yannik Porsché, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, DE Intersections of Institutional, Scientific and Public Discourse in a French-German Exhibition on Representations and Identities of Immigrants |
| 17:20 - 17:40 | Mary Gilmartin, NUI Maynooth, IE Migrant mothers speak of home |
| 17:40 - 18:00 | Joanne Cassar, University of Malta, Malta The Migrant Voice as Mediated Self-presentation |
| 18:00 - 18:30 | Questions and discussion |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
| 20:30 - 22:00 | Poster Session: all selected poster presenters will have 3 minutes time to introduce their poster. |
| Sunday 8 August | |
| Session 5: The Materiality of Home and Belonging I Chair: Ayona Datta | |
| 09:00 – 09:45 | Mirjana Lozanovska, Deakin University, AU House and Dwelling in the Flows of Migration |
| 09:45 - 10:05 | Sabina Giorgi, Sapienza University, Rome, IT To live in a squat building: the history of a Moroccan migrant family in Rome (co-author Alessandra Fasulo - University of Portsmouth) |
| 10:05 - 10:25 | Ceren Kürüm, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE Reconstructing ‘Home’ in the House of ‘the Enemy’: Post-War Dwelling Appropriation by Turkish Cypriot Refugees |
| 10:25 - 10:55 | Coffee Break |
| Session 6: The Materiality of Home and Belonging II Chair: Iliana Ortega-Alcazar | |
| 10:55 - 11:15 | Cecilie Andersson, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO Do you see what I mean? Narrative fragments of migrant views of life in the city, Guangzhou, China |
| 11:15 - 11:35 | Petra Ezzedine, Charles University, CZ Objects of Love |
| 11:35 - 11:55 | Maria das Gracas Brightwell, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Food practices among Brazilians in London: A plate of rice and beans? |
| 11:55 - 12:15 | Ozlem Savas, Bilkent University, TR Taste Diaspora: Aesthetic and material practices of belonging |
| 12:15 - 13:00 | Questions and discussion |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 15:00 - 17:30 | Excursion |
| 19:00 | Reception and conference dinner |
| Monday 9 August | |
| Session 7: Narrating, Experiencing and Changing City Spaces I Chair: Ulrike Meinhof | |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Iain Chambers, University of Naples "L'Orientale", IT The ‘unintended city’: migration, modernity and democracy |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Adrian Favell, Aarhus University, DK Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in the EU |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| Session 8: Narrating, Experiencing and Changing City Spaces II Chair: Tovi Fenster | |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Peter Leese, University of Copenhagen, DK Seeing the Immigrant City c. 1900 |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Madeleine Lyes, University College Dublin, IE Authentic Aspiration: Constructing the City as Home in the New Yorker Magazine |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Sara Lynn Lopez, University of California Berkeley, US Emergent Public Spaces in "Transnational" Mexico: Remittance Construction and Cultural Exchange |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Questions and discussion |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| Session 9: Marginal and contested urban spaces I Chair: Mirjana Lozanovska | |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Zlatko Skrbis, University of Queensland, AU Cosmopolitanism and communication across cultures: is banal cosmopolitanism defensible? |
| 14.45 - 15.05 | Syrine Hout, American University, Beirut, LB Floating or Sinking in Foreign Cities? A Contrastive Study of Alternative Post-War Lives in Anglophone Lebanese Fiction |
| 15:05 - 15:25 | Louise Meijering, University of Groningen, NL “Holland is my home”. The effect of home-making on the well-being of elderly Surinam immigrants |
| 15:25 - 16:00 | Coffee break |
| Session 10: Marginal and contested urban spaces II Chair: Mary Gilmartin | |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Gayathri Embuldeniya, University of California Santa Barbara, US The Sri Lankan Tamil protests in Toronto: Negotiating space and belonging at the end of a war |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Noelle Brigden, Cornell University, US State Policy and Violence along Undocumented Migratory Routes from Central America through the United States |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Ranjith Dayaratne, University of Bahrain, Bahrain Centers on the Edge: Constructing multi-cultural places in a migrant enclave of an Islamic city |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Questions and Discussion |
| 17:30 - 18:30 | Forward Look Plenary Discussion |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
| Tuesday 10 August | |
| 08:00 | Breakfast and Departure |
| List of Accepted Posters |
| Abraham Shirley | The Bauers in Bahiram: Exploring the consequences of arrival of European film technology in religious fairs, and consequently, the creation of nomadic tent cinema companies in remote villages in western India | |
| Ben-Israel Arnon | Movement, Enrooting, Resistance – Tarig A'Tir (Road 316) Aa a Place for Urbanized Arab-Bedouin | |
| Cachado Rita | Housing and home(s) narratives – public policies and Hindu Portuguese families life projects | |
| Campos Cynthia | The effects of the Nationalization Campaign: The Prohibition of the German Language in Southern Brazil during the Second World War | |
| De Vries Inge | Making a home: material culture of international students in Groningen | |
| Easwaran Chirakkal | Myaspora Tool for Mapping and Tracking Personal Diaspora Histories | |
| Giese Karsten | Migrant Couples Living in Parallel Universes – Home-Making of Chinese Artists and their Spouses in Germany | |
| González Lorenzo Eva | The forgotten identities of indigenous peoples of Ecuador in Spain | |
| Holmes Tabitha | Migration Narratives as a Function of Movement through Ecological Time and Space | |
| Mittal Anjali | “Working abroad”, virtually: Mobility narratives of call centre transnational labourers in metropolitan Delhi | |
| Ogwude Sophia Obiajulu | Migration and empowerment in new Nigerian fiction | |
| Olariu Florin-Teodor | “Who Speaks What Language to Whom and When?” – The Language Biographies as the Migration Narratives | |
| Richter Marina | Migrants' Perception of Transnational Social Spaces: A Methodological Inquiry Robinson Katherine Making a Beginning | |
| Robinson Katherine | Making a Beginning | |
This conference is organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF) in partnership with Linköping University.
