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WELCOME
Transnationalmobilityandmigrationarekeyforcesofsocialandculturaltransformation
in the contemporary world. While some aspects of this transformation are welcome
othersarechargedwithfear.Suchtensionsandambivalencesareatthecentreofmany
ofthepapersthatwillbepresentedattheconferenceWelcomingStrangers.Therangeof
disciplinesandthemescoveredatthisinternationalpostgraduateconferencereflectsthe
significance and topicality of the theme that we seek to explore together. With
accelerated inter- and intra-nationalmobility, theconceptsof place anddisplacement,
and their impact on individual and collective identities, have received unprecedented
scholarlyattentionindisciplinesasdiverseasGeography,Politics,Music,FilmandMedia
Studies,English,Postcolonial Studies andMigrationandDiasporaStudies.Thegrowing
importance of multi-locality, transnational (and 'post-national') communities,
cosmopolitanismandvariousformsofflexiblecitizenshipcallbinarismswhichposit‘the
stranger’as‘theOther’oftheindigenouscommunity,asthe‘guest’whoiswelcomedby
thehegemonichostsociety,intoquestion.Contestsaroundnotionsofethnicessentialism
and cultural purity have given way to a widespread acceptance of diversity and the
celebrationofhybridity. Inmusic, literature,and film,the contributionsofartistswith
transnationallymobileand/orethnicminoritybackgroundstotheaesthetictraditionsof
westernhegemonicculturalproductionshaveresultedininnovativecreativesynergiesof
thelocalandtheglobalandhaveenjoyedconsiderablecross-overappeal.Ontheother
hand,many ‘strangers’havenot beenwelcomed,theirvoiceshavebeensilenced, and
their artistic expressions have been marginalized. The exponential growth ininformational technologies and themobilityof global capital,whichonce promised to
fulfillMcLuhan’s vision ofaglobal village,has beenaccompaniedbymanyunforeseen
challenges.Restrictedmobilityoflabour,asylumlegislation,andnewsecuritychallenges
poseathreattotheidealofglobalidentitiesandacosmopolitansociety.
TheConferenceCommitteewouldliketothanktheHumanitiesandArtsResearchCentre
atRoyalHollowayforitssupportoftheconferenceandextendaverywarmwelcometo
theconferencedelegates.
JohnAbraham(DepartmentofPoliticsandInternationalRelations)
RichardBater(DepartmentofGeography)
Prof.DanielaBerghahn(DepartmentofMediaArts,HARCFellow20111-12‘Welcoming
Strangers’)
LiaDeromedi(DepartmentofEnglish)
StephanieVos(DepartmentofMusic)
DenizGünesYardimci(DepartmentofMediaArts)
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CONFERENCEPROGRAMME
9:30am Registration Moore1Building1Foyer
0:00am KeynoteMX001(Lecture1Theatre),1
Moore1Annexe1Professor1Robin1Cohen1(University1of1Oxford)
Before&the&Welcoming:&The&Origins&of&Difference,&the&Beginnings&of&
Convergence
Chair:1Professor1Daniela1Berghahn
:00am Panel*1a:*Transnationalisms,*ethnicities,*identitiesMX001(Lecture1Theatre),1
Moore1Annexe
Chair:1Deniz1Yardimci
Ruth1Judge1(University1College1London)
&From&a&Hackney&council&estate&to&a&Kenyan&orphanage:&transnational&
encounters&and&cosmopolitan&youth&identities?
Danlu1Wang1(Institute1of1Education,1University1of1London)
Imagining&the&Homeland:&Cultural&Identity&of&British&Chinese&teenagers&in&and&
around&London
Oliver1Dew1(Birkbeck,1University1of1London)
Makingðnicity&tangible&in&Japanese&gangster&films
Panel*1b:*Performing*and*materialising*diasporasABG024,1Arts1Building1
Ground1Floor
Chair:1Richard1Bater
André1Nóvoa1(Royal1Holloway,1University1of1London)
Like&lovers&in&suits&of&armour':&a&mobileðnography&of&Portuguese&MEPs
Sin1Yee1Koh1(London1School1of1Economics)
Estranging&selves&and&the&perpetuation&of&diasporic&consciousness:&second&generation&ChineseMalaysians
Priya1Vadi1(Royal1Holloway,1University1of1London)
Identity&negotiation&and&the&material&cultures&of&the&Iranian&diaspora&in&London&
and&Vancouver
2:30pm Lunch1provided Moore1Building1Foyer
:5pm KeynoteMX001(Lecture1Theatre),1
Moore1Annexe
Professor1Stephanie1Hemelryk1Donald1(RMIT1University/University1of1Leeds)
The&Dorothy&Complex:&Children&and&Migration&in&World&Cinema
Chair:1Professor1Daniela1Berghahn
2:5pm Panel*2a:*Environments*of*diasporaMX001(Lecture1Theatre),1
Moore1Annexe
Chair:1Priya1Vadi
Bogumil1Terminski1(Graduate1Institute1Geneva/University1of1Warsaw)
Environmentallyinduced&migrations:&theoretical&frameworks,&politics&and&law
Pei`Sze1Chow1(University1College1London)
Constructing&post/trans/national&spaces&through&architecture&in&film:&the&case&
of&Malmo,&Sweden
Izabela1Ilowska1(University1of1Glasgow)
The&space&of&the&East&End&in&Monica&Ali's&Brick1Lane
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2:15pm Panel&2b:&Perspectives&from&philosophy MBS016,-Moore-Building
Chair:-Deniz-Yardimci
Jan-Völkel-(University-of-Auckland)
Beyond'Discourse:'Transforming'the'discourse'on'European'migration'through'
dissensus'in'works'of'art
Filippo-Menozzi-(University-of-Kent)
Hospitality/Incorporation:'between'psychoanalysis'and'philosophy
Stephan-Hilpert-(University-of-Cambridge)
Mutual'Intrusions:'Ulrich'Seidls-Import/Export'through'JeanLuc'Nancy
3:45pm Refreshment-break Moore-Building-Foyer
4:00pm Panel&3a:&Constructions&of&the&Other:&contemporary&writersMX001-(Lecture-Theatre),-
Moore-Annexe
Chair:-Lia-Deromedi
Sara-Marzagora-(SOAS,-University-of-London)
Looking'back'to'the'Horn'of'Rome:'the'literary'activism'of'Eritrean,'Somali'and'Ethiopian'writers'in'multicultural'Italy
Cynthia-Lytle-(Universitat-de-Barcelona)
Making'them'strange:'representations'of'the'Other'in'Zoe'Wicombs'The-one-
that-got-away
Lizzie-Richardson-(Durham-University)
Writing'the'margins'or'the'mainstream:'Figuring'the'stranger'in'artistic'
practice
Panel&3b:&Trans<positions:&displacing&music&and&musicians MBS016,-Moore-Building
Chair:-Ester-Lebedinksi
Alberto-Hernández-Mateos-(University-of-Salamanca)
A'stranger'on'both'sides:'Antonio'Eximeno'and'the'ItalianSpanish'musical'
thought
Stephanie-Vos-(Royal-Holloway,-University-of-London)
Establishing'(musical)'relationships:'South'African'exile'and'the'Black'Atlantic'
diaspora
Alan-Ashton\Smith-(London-Consortium)
Multi-Kontra-Culti:'Gypsy'Punk'Multiculturalism
Panel&3c:&The&world&of&filmABG024,-Arts-Building-
Ground-Floor
Chair:-Professor-Daniela-Berghahn
Natalia-Poljakowa-(Royal-Holloway,-University-of-London)
From'our'correspondent'in'Berlin:'the'German'impact'on'Soviet'filmculture'in'
the'1920sRachel-Kapelke\Dale-(University-College-London)
From'strangers'to'stars,'stars'to'strangers:'Greta'Garbo'and'Marlene'Dietrich'
in'early'1930s'Hollywood
Kamil-Zapasnik-(Birkbeck,-University-of-London)
Escaping'otherness?'Identities'at'the'margins'in'Claire'Denis -J'ai-pas-sommeil/I-
can't-sleep
5:30pm Closing-remarks MX001-(Lecture-Theatre),-
Moore-Annexe
6:30pm All-are-invited-to-join-us-for-an-informal-(optional)-dinner-at-Bar-163,-Egham:-
163-High-Street,-Egham,-TW20-9HP--(http://www.bar163.com/)
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research on creolization was funded by an Economic and Social Research Council
ProfessorialFellowship(2006–9).
PANEL1a:Transnationalisms,ethnicities,identities
RuthJudge(UniversityCollegeLondon)
FromaHackneycouncilestatetoaKenyanorphanage:transnationalencountersand
cosmopolitanyouthidentities?
Abstract
In the past, much scholarship on transnational encounters has been concerned with
either relations ofdominationbetween ‘thewestand the rest’, orthe struggles facing
forcedmigrants.However,workarounddiasporasandcosmopolitanismhasopenedthewayformorenuancedanalyses.Thispaperattemptstofurthersomeoftheseanalyses
throughlookingatnewinternationalyouthvolunteeringinitiatives.Theseinitiativestake
youthfrommultiethnic,low-income,urbanbackgroundsintheUKonvolunteeringtrips
to‘developing’countries.Thispaperwillexplorehowsuchtransnationalencountersbring
togethertwogroupsfrequentlyportrayedas‘marginalised’,complicatingbinariesaround
‘self’ and ‘other’, dominance and victimhood. It will also raise questions about how
embodiedandemotionaldimensionsofencounterswith‘other’peopleandplacesrelate
toyoungpeople’sidentityconstruction,andthepossibilityof‘cosmopolitan’identitiesin
both local and global spheres. Such transnational encounters push us to engage withideas about contact, identity and prejudice: Do young people’s embodied encounters
with ‘others’destabilise existingclass andethnic identities?What insightsmight these
encounters bring to debates about ‘community cohesion’, hybridity and cosmopolitan
identities?ThispaperisbasedontheearlystagesofmyPhDresearchandwilldrawona
reviewofliterature,complementedbysomepreliminaryprimarydata.
Keywords:Identity,youth,cosmopolitanism,transnationalencounters
Selectedbibliography
Fortier,A-M. (2008).Multicultural horizons: Diversityand the limits of the civil nation,
London:Routledge.
Keith,M. (2005). After the Cosmopolitan?Multicultural cities and the future of racism,
London:Routledge.
Nayak A. (2003). Race, Place and Globalization : YouthCultures in a ChangingWorld,
Oxford:Berg.
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Thompson,R.andTaylor,R.(2005).‘Betweencosmopolitanismandthelocals:mobilityas
aresourceinthetransitiontoadulthood’,Young:NordicJournalofYouthResearch,13(4),
327–342.
Biographicalnote
RuthJudgeisinthefirstyearofstudyingforaPhDintheDepartmentofGeography,UCL.
In2009shegraduatedfromanMScinForcedMigrationfromtheUniversityofOxford.
Her dissertation (published asRefugee Studies CentreWorking Paper 60) focussedon
how youngmale asylum seekers and refugees in the UK are situated in a precarious
positionatthe intersectionofseveralpowerfuldiscursivefieldsaroundage,genderand
victimhood. Her undergraduate dissertation (UCL Geography) focussed on Cambodian
nationalidentityinthepost-conflictcontext.
DanluWang(InstituteofEducation,UniversityofLondon)
ImaginingtheHomeland:CulturalIdentityofBritishChineseteenagersinandaround
London
Abstract
The emergence of the People’s Republic of China as an economic superpower has
become apopular topic inmassmediaand scholarshiparound theworld.Meanwhile,
researchersbecameinterestedinthesoaringratesofanewwaveofChinesemigration
since 1980s (Luk, 2008). However, there are not as many studies focused on British
Chinese(BC)community.Forschool-agedBC,themajorresearchthemehasbeentheiroutstandingacademicachievementinschools(Francis&Archer,2005a,2005b).Veryfew
studieshaveexploredtheculturalidentitiesofschool-agedBC,whoseparentsbelongto
thenewimmigrationwave.
ThisstudyaimstoprovideafullerpictureofeverydaylivesofBCteenagersinand
aroundLondon.ItinvestigatestheidentitiesofBCteenagersasChinesedescendants,as
students,aschildrenandasyoungpeople inametropolitan city.Thisstudyemploysa
mixed-method of quantitative and qualitative research. The results will be generated
frommyoneandhalfyearparticipantobservationinaChineseweekendschoolinnorth
London. During which time, I have also completed a questionnaire survey (108questionnaires), 35 in-depth interviews, 4 focus-group discussions and a photographic
workshopinfourweekendChineseschoolsinnorth,south,eastandwestLondon.This
studywill contribute knowledge in the discussion of ‘hybrid cultural identities’ in the
globalizationcontext.ItwillalsoofferacomprehensivedepictionofBCcommunityand
BCteenagersinandaroundLondon.
Keywords: British Chinese teenagers, cultural identity, imagination of homeland,
transnationalism.
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Selectedbibliography
Luk,W.E.(2008).ChinatowninBritain:DiffusionsandConcentrationsoftheBritishNew
WaveChineseimmigration.Youngstown,NewYork:CambriaPress.
Francis,B.,&Archer,L.(2005a).British-Chinesepupilsandparentsconstructionsofthe
valueofeducation.BritishEducationalResearchJournal,31(1),89-108.
Francis, B.,& Archer, L. (2005b). Theynever go off the rails like other ethnic groups:
teachers constructions of British Chinese pupils gender identities and approaches to
learning.BritishJournalofSociologyofEducation,26(2),165-182.
Morley,D.(2000).HomeTerritories:Media,MobilityandIdentity .London:Routledge.
Biographicalnote
DanluWangiscurrentlyaPh.D.studentattheInstituteofEducation(IOE),Universityof
London.Her studyis supportedbytheCentenary Scholarshipat the IOE.Her graduate
degrees includeMSc inSocial Anthropology (LondonSchool ofEconomics and Political
Science,London,UK),MA inGlobal Communication (ChineseUniversity ofHongKong,
HongKong,China)andBAinJournalism(RenminUniversityofChina,Beijing,China).
ShewasborninChinaandcompletedherschoolinganddegreeeducationthere.
ShehasbeenstudyingandlivinginLondonfor5years.Herresearchinterestslieinthe
areaofMediastudies,Culturestudies,MigrationandDiasporastudies.
OliverDew(Birkbeck,UniversityofLondon)
MakingethnicitytangibleinJapanesegangsterfilms
Abstract
Diasporicethnicityisdoublyinscribedinmanygenresofgangsterfilmaroundtheworld:
evenwhenthe charactersarenot identifiedasethnicothers, the rituals,symbols, and
languageofthegangsterorganisationcreateafictivekinshipandconsanguinitythatcan
itself, problematically, be read as ‘ethnic’ (see Lo; Gormley; Larke-Walsh). This paper
looksathow1960sand‘70sJapaneseyakuzafilms,featuringdiasporicKorean-in-Japangangsters, have been read, contested, and rewritten within Korean-in-Japan reception
contexts. In the 1970s this diasporic reading positionwas largely oral and subcultural,
only rarely leaving written traces. After 1990 however this reading practice became
somewhatinstitutionalisedthroughtheactivitiesoffilmfestivalsthatcuratedacounter---
canonaroundthethemeoftherepresentationofethnicothers,inspiteofthefactthat
manyoftheseyakuzafilmsonlysignedKoreannessinanobliqueandinnuendo---laden
way(effectivelysigninganethnictaboo).Thisreadingpracticeaddressedthisproblemby
rejectingthedemandthatethnicitybeexplicitlysignedandmade‘legible’,andinstead
bodyingforthanethnicitythatis‘tangible’and‘more-than-signifying’.Whatimplications
mightthisaffectivereadinghaveforourunderstandingoftheburdenofrepresentation,
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thepersistenceofstereotyping,and(post-)essentialistarticulationsofethnicity?
Keywords:representationaffectgangsterfilmKoreansinJapan
Selectedbibliography
Gormley,Paul.2005.TheNew-BrutalityFilm:RaceandAffectinContemporaryHollywood
Cinema(Bristol:Intellect).
Larke-Walsh, George. 2010. Screening the Mafia: Masculinity, Ethnicity and Mobsters
FromtheGodfathertotheSopranos(JeffersonN.C.:McFarland&Co.).
Lo,Kwai-Cheung.2007.‘ABorderlineCase:EthnicPoliticsandGangsterFilmsinPost---
1997HongKong’,PostcolonialStudies,10:4,pp.431---446.
Yang,In-sil.2002.‘“Yakuzaeiga”niokeru“zainichi”kan[Theappearanceof“Zainichi”in“yakuzafilms”]’,RitsumeikanReviewofIndustrialSociety,38:2,pp.113-131.
Biographicalnote
IamanAssociateLecturerandPhDcandidateintheDepartmentofMediaandCultural
StudiesatBirkbeckCollege.Thispaperisadaptedfromachapterofmythesis,which
looksatimagesofdiasporicKoreansinJapan(ZainichiKoreans)infilmandvideofromthe
1970sonwards.Iamparticularlyinterestedinhowaffectivestructuresarecentraltothe
practicesofreading,curating,andproducing“Zainichicinema.”Theresearchforthis
thesiswaspartlyconductedatMeijiGakuinUniversityinTokyo,whereIwasaJapanSocietyforthePromotionofSciencevisitingresearchfellowin2008-9.
PANEL1b:Performingandmaterialisingdiasporas
AndréNóvoa(RoyalHolloway,UniversityofLondon)
“Likeloversinsuitsofarmour”:AmobileethnographyofPortugueseMEPs
Abstract
Thispaperseekstoaddressagapindiasporastudies,offeringanin-depthethnographyof
travellingelites.Overthelastfewyears,questionsofmobilityandpeopleonthemove
have been shifting away from a marginal position to the core of scholarly debate.
However, despite the existence of a significant amount of research on the lives of
migrants,refugeesandothers,whenitcomestothestudyofindividualshigh-upinterms
ofsocialclassmostoftheworkisbasedonspeculativetheory.Thispapercountersthis
tendencyandprovidesafirst-handanalysisofitinerantpoliticians.Bymeansofaseriesof
threetravelswithPortugueseMembersoftheEuropeanParliament,Iexamineprocesses
of dwelling-on-the-move and professional encapsulation in situ. Bearing in mind that
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nomadicelitesarenormallythoughtofasentitiesthatbothliterallyandmetaphorically
fly above local cultures, I posit that theseprocesses of encapsulation holdmore than
meets the eye and have to do more with the physiognomy of theMEPs professional
spacesthanwithpersonalworldviews.
Keywords:Mobileethnography;elite-travelling;encapsulation;transnationalcultures.
Selectedbibliography
Castells,Manuel.1996.Theriseofthenetworksociety .Cambridge:Blackwell.
De Cauter, Lieven. 2004. The capsular civilization: on the city in the age of fear.
Rotterdam:NAiPublishers.
Graham,Stephen,&SimonMarvin.2001.Splinteringurbanismnetworkedinfrastructures,
technologicalmobilitiesandtheurbancondition.London,NewYork:Routledge.
Rapport,Nigel,&AndrewDawson.1998.Migrantsofidentity:perceptionsof‘home’ina
worldofmovement.Oxford:BergPublishers.
Urry,John.2007.Mobilities.Cambridge:Polity.
Biographicalnote
Originally trained as a historian (graduation), I completed my Masters in Social and
CulturalAnthropologyattheInstituteforSocialSciences(UniversityofLisbon)in2009.Since2010,IhavebeenworkingonmyPhDinCulturalGeographyatRoyalHolloway,
UniversityofLondon,underthesupervisionofProfessorTimCresswell.Mymaininterests
revolvearoundissuesofmobilityandcosmopolitanism.
SinYeeKoh(LondonSchoolofEconomicsandPoliticalScience)
EstrangingSelvesandthePerpetuationofDiasporicConsciousness:SecondGeneration
Chinese-MalaysianCitizen-DiasporasinSingapore
Abstract
Ethnic-basedcitizenshipandaffirmativeactionpoliciesinMalaysiahavecreatedaculture
of migration, particularly of non-Bumiputera (“sons of soil”) Chinese-Malaysians. The
typicalChinese-Malaysianemigranthasbeen“askilled,highlyeducatedmigrant”(Cartier,
2003:73) seeking better lifeopportunities,particularly in Singapore.AlthoughChinese-
Malaysianshavebeendescribedassecond-classcitizensinMalaysia,manycontinueto
holdontotheirMalaysiancitizenshipwhiletaking-uppermanentresident(PR)statusin
Singapore.Thisisalsoacommonstrategyamongsttheirsecondgeneration.
In this paper, I examine narratives of second-generation Chinese-Malaysians in
Singapore, focusing on their emotions and rationalisations of (citizenship) identity,
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belonging, home, and migration intentions. The research question is: Why do second
generationChinese-MalaysiansinSingaporeactivelytakeondiasporicconsciousness?I
makefourarguments.Firstly,theMalaysiancitizenshipisasymbolof identityandback-
upplanforfuturemigration.Secondly,structuralfactorsandexistingsocio-institutional
practices emphasise my respondents’ diasporic “unbelonging” to both Singapore and
Malaysia. Thirdly, while awareness of one’s estranged self does not conflict with the
necessitiesofeverydaylife,thisdoesnotremoveone’scontinualnegotiationsascitizen-
diasporascaught inbetweenMalaysiaandSingapore.Finally,citizenshipasidentityand
citizenshipasstrategyisintertwined,particularlyforsecondgenerationcitizen-diasporas.
Keywords:cultureofmigration,secondgeneration,identityandbelonging,diasporic
citizenship
Selectedbibliography
Barabantseva, E., & Sutherland, C. (2011). Diaspora and citizenship: Introduction.NationalismandEthnicPolitics17(1),1-13.
Christou,A.(2006).Decipheringdiaspora–translatingtransnationalism:Familydynamics,
identity constructions and the legacy of ‘home’ in second-generationGreek- American
returnmigration.Ethnic&RacialStudies,29(6),1040-1056.
Cohen,J.H.,&Sirkeci,I.(2011).Culturesofmigration:Theglobalnatureofcontemporary
mobilityAustin:UniversityofTexasPress.
Mavroudi, E. (2007). Diaspora as process: (De)constructing boundaries. Geography
Compass,1(3),467-479.
Biographicalnote
SinYeeKohisaPhDcandidateinHumanGeographyattheLondonSchoolofEconomics
andPoliticalScience(LSE).HerPhDthesisexaminescitizenshipandmigrationdecisionsof
tertiary-educatedMalaysian-bornprofessionalsinLondon,SingaporeandKualaLumpur.
Concurrently, she isMembership Secretary and OfficeManager for the Associationof
Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN); and Graduate Teaching Assistant for GY302 UrbanDevelopment:Politics,PolicyandPlanning.Withpriorprofessionalworkingexperiencein
architectureandurbandevelopmentinSingapore,herresearchinterestsareinmigration,
citizenship,urbanizationandsocialchangeinEastandSouth-eastAsia.
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PriyaVadi(RoyalHolloway,UniversityofLondon)
Identitynegotiationand thematerialculturesof the Iranian diaspora inLondon and
Vancouver
Abstract
Inthispresentation,IwilldiscussmyrecentlystartedPhDresearchondiasporicIranianwomen’sdresspractices.Theintentofthisresearchistoexaminetheroleofdressand
clothing textiles in the identity practices of diasporic Iranian / Persian women in
Vancouver and London. Drawing upon qualitative research, I will be exploring how
women relate to their Iranian, Canadian, and British identities through dress. I will
compare dress practices in the two cities so as better to grasp the role of local and
national contexts in shaping these relations. In addition, I will also be exploring the
articulationofIraniandiasporicdresswithlocalisedandtransnationaldevelopmentsin
Islamicfashions.
Insettingouttheagendasforthiswork,inthispresentationIwillarguethatdress
providesagroundedandmeaningfulwaytoexploreexperiencesofself-expressionand
communal engagement performed in relation to wider cultural expectations, moral
orders, and resources. More generally, I will show how the research engages
interdisciplinary debates on diasporic identities, more specifically the Iranian diaspora;
emergentbodiesofworkondressandnationalregulationsofmulticulturalism,especially
with regard to Muslim identities; and extends geographical interests in the fashion
industryanditsglobalgeographiestowardsaricherunderstandingofdiasporicstylesand
everydaypracticesofdress.
Keywords:Iranian;diaspora;identity;dress
Selectedbibliography
BrewardC&GilbertD(eds)2006Fashion’sworldcities(Berg,Oxford)
Knott,K.&McLouglin,S.(eds)(2010)Diasporas:concepts,intersections,identities.
London:ZedBooks.
Spellman,K.(2004).Religionandnation:Iranianlocalandtransnationalnetworksin
Britain.BerghahnBooks.
Tarlo,E.(2010)VisiblyMuslim.Fashion,politics,faithOxford:Berg.
Biographicalnote
IamafirstyearPhDcandidateintheDepartmentofGeography.IcompletedmyMAin
Geography at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. My broad
researchinterestsfocusonidentitiesandculturalconsumption.
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KEYNOTE
ProfessorStephanieHemelrykDonald(RMITUniversity,MelbourneandLeverhulme
VisitingProfessorattheCentreforWorldCinema,UniversityofLeeds)
TheDorothyComplex:ChildrenandMigrationinWorldCinema
Abstract
The child incinema isapowerful fantasy figure,deployedtoembody and aestheticise
acceleratedmotion, sociopoliticaldisplacement,andontological transition,allofwhich
conditionsgenerateadultanxietyandfear.Whenthechildleaveshome,adultfearisboth
accentuatedandbroughttoanexquisitepeakofrenewalandpossibility.Whenthechild
migrates,thatdeparturesignalsnationalandtransationalimpactsandaffect.Thislecture
considerswaysinwhichDorothyfromTheWizardofOzisatemplateandatouchstone
fornarrativesofchildmigrationsandadultanxietysince1939.
Biographicalnote
ProfessorStephanieHemelrykDonaldiscurrentlyaLeverhulmeTrustVisitingProfessorat
the Centre forWorld Cinemas at the University of Leeds. Following a first degree in
ChineseattheUniversityofOxfordandaDPhilonChinesefilmatUniversityofSussex
(1997),sheemigratedtoAustralia,whereshehasworkedeversince.Herresearchcovers
film, themedia, and children’s experiences in the Asia-Pacific region,with aparticular
focus on visual culture. Previous positions held include Professor of Chinese Media
StudiesattheUniversityofSydney,andFoundationDeanofMediaandCommunicationat RMIT University, Melbourne. She has recently been awarded a prestigious Future
FellowshipbytheAustralianResearchCouncil,whichshewilltakeupattheUniversityof
NewSouthWalesinMay2012.
Recentscholarlyarticleshavebeenpublishedin Theory,CultureandSociety ,New
Formations,andMIA.HernumerousbooksincludegeneralinterestbookssuchasMedia
Theories and Approaches: A Global Perspective (with M. Balnaves and B. Shoesmith,
2009), Pocket China Atlas (with R.J.Benewick,2008), ThePenguinAtlas ofMediaand
Information(withM.BalnavesandJ.Donald,2001),TheStateofChinaAtlas(withR.J.
Benewick, 1999) and scholarly titles such as Tourism and the Branded City: Film andIdentityonthePacificRim(withJ.G.Gammack,2007),LittleFriends:Children’sFilmand
MediaCultureinNewChina (2005),PublicSecrets,PublicSpaces:CinemaandCivilityin
China (2000).Inaddition,ProfessorDonaldhasco-editedsixanthologies,includingthe
mostrecentvolumeYouth, SocietyandMobileMediainAsia(withT.AndersonandD.
Spry,2011).
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PANEL2a:Environmentsofdiaspora
BogumilTerminski(GraduateInstituteGeneva/UniversityofWarsaw)
EnvironmentallyInducedMigrations.TheoreticalFrameworks,PoliticsandLaw
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to demonstrate environmentally-induced migration as an
increasingly important category of populationmovement that represents a newsetof
challenges to the international community and to public international law. For these
purposes,theworkanalysesboththephenomenonofenvironmentalmigrationitself,and
theproblemsofpeopleaffectedbyit.Apartfromtheoreticalconsiderations,thepresent
workalsoexamineswhichmainfactorsforcepeopletofleetheirhomes.Bothlong -termenvironmentalprocessesandnaturaldisastersareinvestigatedhere,anditisshownhow
theyentailsignificantimplicationsforthedynamicsofpopulationmobility. Thesocial consequencesof theenvironmental processesunder observationare
oneofthegreatestchallengestheinternationalcommunitywillfaceinthecomingyears.
Today, the effects of climate change seem obvious to many citizens of our planet.
Desertification,increasingsoilsalinity,wastefuldeforestation,andrisingsealevelsarejust
afewoftheissuesdiscussedbelowwhichaffecteverydaylifeforatleasttwohundred
millionpeopleworldwide.
The serious natural disasters observed in recent years are also not without
ramifications. Earthquakes (and the tsunamiwaves that frequently accompany them),
volcanic eruptions, and the effects ofhurricanes, cyclones, and tornadoes force a few
millionpeopleeachyeartorelocate.Watchingtelevisionreportsfromareasdevastated
bynaturaldisasters,we oftendo not take intoaccount themany subtleconsequences
affecting the local communities; demographic, social, economic, and health-related
effectsofmajornaturaldisasterscanbevisibleyearsaftertheimminentthreatisgone.
Environmentally inducedmigrationmovements constitute one of the dominant
human conditions for mobility within national borders. Environmentally-induced
migrationsofaninternationalcharacterstillremainasmallandlimitedphenomenon(in
statunascendi ).Instead,thisparticularcategoryofmigrationappearstobetakingplace
largelyinsidetheconfinesofagivenstate.Thisdidnotpreventtheissueofenvironmental
migrationsfrombecoming,recently,animportantlocusofinternationalcooperation.The
activity of international institutions is increasingly affected by issues which, for many
years, were within an exclusive competence of state authorities. Certain global
environmentalprocesses(suchasozonedepletionorrisingsea levelscausedbymelting
glaciers)forcetheinternationalcommunitytot akecommonandcoordinatedactions.
Animportantprerequisiteforsuchactivityseemstobethemodernfocusonthe
development of international human rights protection. The situation of many
communitieslivingwithinnationalborders(variousminoritygr oups,indigenouspeoples,
internallydisplacedpersons,andevenmigrantworkers)hasbecomeagrowingconcernof
the international community. Regarded until recently as impinging on the undisputed
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sovereignty of thestate, conservationandaidefforts(fromhumanitarianassistanceto
human rights interventions) are now practices that are generally accepted and widely
usedbymanyinternationalinstitutions.
Thebeginningsofaidonbehalfofinternallydisplacedpersonsbytheinternational
community(includingenvironmentally-inducedmigrants)occurredintheearly1990s.The
firstdocumentinthisregardwasGuidingPrinciplesonInternalDisplacement ,adoptedin
1998. The document was not binding; rather, it was a summary of the postulated
frameworkofrulesonthehumanitarianaspectsofthetreatmentofinternallydisplaced
persons.ThefirstbindingdocumentonassistinginternalmigrantswastheConventionof
Kampala(2009),establishedwithintheAfricanUnion.Thedocument,adoptedbytheUN,
did not distinguish any specific categories of forced migrants from the generally
understoodgroupof internallydisplacedpersons.However,given thediversenatureof
migrationmovements,itseemsreasonabletodistinguishatleastthreebasiccategoriesof
f orced internal displacement. These include: conflict-induced displacement,
environmentally-induced displacement, and development-induced displacement. Thus,thereareatleastthreebasictypesofinternallydisplacedpersons.
Biographicalnote
BogumilTerminski:ResearcherattheUniversityofWarsaw(2010)andPhDfellowatThe
Graduate Institute in Geneva (2009). Author of two books International Protection of
MigrantWorkers`Rights.OriginsInstitutionsandImpact (WarsawUniversityPress,2011)
andDevelopment Induced Displacement. AMonograph (in press), twoworking papers
(preparedfortheUNHCR),andmorethan30peerreviewedarticlespublishedinPoland,
Switzerland, Belgium, France, Spain, Colombia, Costa Rica, Argentina and the U.S.Memberof InternationalHumanitarianStudiesAssociation (IHSA),International Studies
Association (ISA), International Law Association (ILA), Harvard Humanitarian Law and
Policy Forum, The American Society for International Law (ASIL) and the InternationalNetworkforthePromotiontheRuleofLaw(INPROL).
Pei-SzeChow(UniversityCollegeLondon)
Constructing Post/Trans/National Spaces through Architecture in Film: The Case of
Malmö,Sweden.
Abstract
Thispaperdiscussesthecinematicrepresentationsoflandmarkarchitectureasamodeof
depicting lived experience in transnational spaces. I analyse three documentaries by
filmmaker Fredrik Gertten that deal with landmark architectural projects in Malmö,
Sweden: Gå På Vatten (2000), Bye Bye Malmö (2002), andSossenArkitekten och det
SkruvadeHuset (2005).
ThefilmsareaninvestigationintothesocialandspatialtransformationofMalmö
viatheconstructionoftwolandmarkstructuresandthedismantlingofone.Theypresent
narratives of global flows and post/trans/national identities told through the
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documentarymode,inwhichvisualandauralelementsboth reconstructanddeconstruct
the complex social relations emerging from the spatial/geographical dynamismof the
region.In thefilms,variouscharacters–‘locals’, ‘immigrant-citizens’,‘foreigntalent’,and
‘neighbours’–offer multiple narratives that are woven into the (de)construction of the
structures, producinga visual space that interrogates the relationship between spaces
andidentitiesinanincreasinglynetworkedandpostnationalworld.
I posit that these films use the representation of architecture as a tool to
problematizeandarticulatethesenewtransnationalflows,andtohelpusunderstandthe
broaderquestionofthewaysinwhichfilmsvisualizesocialchange.
Keywords:transnational,architecture,film,constructions
Selectedbibliography
Berg,PerOlof,AndersLinde-Laursen,andOrvarLöfgren,eds. InvokingaTransnational
Metropolis:TheMakingoftheØresundRegion.Lund:Studentlitteratur,2000.
McNeill, Donald. The Global Architect: Firms, Fame and Urban Form. New York:
Routledge,2008.
Smith,MichaelP.TransnationalUrbanism:LocatingGlobalization.Malden,Mass.;Oxford:
Blackwell,2001.
Thomson, C. Claire, ed. Northern Constellations: New Readings in Nordic Cinema.
Norwich:NorvikPress,2006.
Biographicalnote
Pei-SzeisinthefirstyearofherPhDatUCL,andherresearchseekstoarticulatethe
intersectionsbetweenfilm,architecture,andtransnationalflows. InadditiontoMalmö,
her PhD project intends to study films about Berlin and Scotland. Broader research
themes include visual experimentation in film, cities, and identity and place-making
throughcinema.
Shereceived herBA (Hons) andMA (Research) fromtheNationalUniversityof
Singapore in 2006 and 2010 respectively, where her research focused on the DogmecollectiveandtheissueofauthenticityinthefilmsofLarsvonTrier.Thelattercontinues
tobeasecondaryresearchinterestoutsideofthePhDproject.
IzabelaIlowska(GlasgowUniversity)
ThespaceoftheEastEndinMonicaAli’sBrickLane
Abstract
Frederic Jameson writes that ‘we live in spacious times’. Indeed, along with the
emergenceofpostmodernism,theconceptofspacehasundergoneaprofoundchange.It
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has stopped being associatedwith geographical studies and perceived as empty and
static,butacquirednewcultural,abstractsense.
TheEastEndisapostmodernspace,asjustlikepostmodernity,itischaracterized
byfluidity,ambiguityandmultiplicityofmeanings.Itisaspaceofarrivalsanddepartures,
a space of immigrants. Indeed, the East End has always been the home of ethnic
minorities.Therefore,theplacehasbeenperceivedasanimaginativespaceoftheOther.
Thispaper investigates the postmodernand postcolonial spaceoftheEastEnd and its
representationandsignificanceinMonicaAli’snovelBrickLane.Itdemonstratesthatthe
EastEnd isnotapassivephysicallocation,but,mostofall,aconceptualand symbolic
space;animaginativespace;spaceofsocialrelations;spacerichinculturalmeanings.The
novelisalsoasuggestiveexplorationofHomiBhabha’sconceptofhybridity andEdward
Soja’sideaof‘Thirdspace’.Inthelastsceneofthenoveltheprotagonistgoesskatingina
sari. The ice rink, situated on the border of the East End and the commercial City,
becomesasymbolicspace:aspaceoftransculturalcoexistenceandpossibility.Itcanbe
seen as a postmodern and postcolonial version of ‘the third space’. In spite of itsprovisional character it is a space of interaction and openness inwhich diversity and
polyphonyofvoicesarerespectedandallowedtocoexist.
Keywords:Imaginarygeography,hybridity,Thirdspace,postmodernism
Selectedbibliography
Ali,Monica,BrickLane(London:Doubleday,2003)
Bhabha,HomiK.,TheLocationofCulture(LondonandNewYork:Routledge,1994)
Harvey,David,TheConditionofPostmodernity (Oxford:BlackwellPublishing,1990)
Lefebvre, Henri, The Production of Space, trans. by Donald Nicholson-Smith, 2nd edn
(Oxford:BlackwellPublishing,1991)
Massey,Doreen, Space,Place,andGender (Minneapolis:UniversityofMinnesotaPress,
1994)
Soja, Edward W., PostmodernGeographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical SocialTheory (LondonandNewYork:Verso,1989)
Soja, Edward, W., Thirdspace: Journeys to Los Angeles and Other Real-And-Imagined
Places(Oxford:Blakwell,1996)
Biographicalnote
IamaPhDstudentofcreativewritingatGlasgowUniversity.CurrentlyIamworkingon
myfirstnovelaboutPolishimmigrantsinLondon.IstudiedEnglishliteratureinPoland
andinLondon.
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PANEL2b:Perspectivesfromphilosophy
JanVoelkel(UniversityofAuckland)
BeyondBorders:TransformingTheDiscourseonEuropeanMigrationThroughDissensusinWorksofArt
Abstract
Asaresponsetothegrowingtensioninthepublicandpoliticaldebatearoundmigration
inEuropeparticularlyfrom‘Muslimcountries’,thispaperinstantiatestoreconfigurethis
discoursebyengagingwithworksofartfromthefieldsoffilm,theatreandartprojectsin
ordertoexplorethepossibilitiesofculturalproductsintheformationofnewsocialand
political coordinates. Based on examinations of the interrelations of politics and
aestheticsbyJacquesRancièreaswellaspostcolonialconceptsofculturalhybriditybyHomi Bhabha and Mark Terkessidis, the project explores the potential of artistic
expressions to create dissensus, which opens up a new space in-between. This in-
betweenisunderstoodasapolyperspectivalandemancipatingrealmofan interculture
that challenges exclusion and fixed hierarchies to be able to renegotiate societal
participation.Contrarytomanypreviousaswellasrecentpoliticalapproachesthatrefer
to concepts of an imaginary normative native past, by concentrating on dissensual
culturalproductiontoformahybridspacethatis reshapedandtransformedconstantly,
the project directs its focus on the shaping of a common the future with artistic
expressionsasakeycatalystforthesubversionofinequalities.
Keywords:dissensus,hybridity,interculture,distributionofthesensible
Selectedbibliography
Balibar,EtienneandImmanuelWallerstein.Race,Nation,Class– AmbiguousIdentities.
London;NewYork:Verso,1991.
Bhabha,Homi.TheLocationofCulture.London;NewYork:Routledge,2004.
Rancière,Jacques,andGabrielRockhill.ThePoliticsofAesthetics:TheDistributionofthe
Sensible.London:Continuum,2006.
Terkessidis,Mark.Interkultur[Interculture].Berlin:Suhrkamp,2010.
BiographicalNote
JanVoelkelreceivedaBachelorofArtsDegreeinEnglishandGermanfromtheHeinrich-
HeineUniversity inDüsseldorf,Germany in2005.During his undergraduate studieshe
alsoworked as aneditorial assistant for GermanMusic TV channel VIVA TVand held
severalfreelancepositionforbothlocalandnationalbroadcastingservices.In2009he
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startedapostgraduatedegreeinFilm,TelevisionandMediaStudiesattheUniversityof
Auckland, New Zealand,whichearned him aPostgraduate DiplomawithDistinction in
2010 as well as aMaster of Arts with a First-Class Honours in 2011. He is currently
applyingforaPhDpositionatseveralinternationaluniversities.
FilippoMenozzi(UniversityofKent)
Hospitality/Incorporation:BetweenPsychoanalysisandPhilosophy.
Abstract
This paper will attempt to juxtapose two concepts, in-between philosophical and
psychoanalytic thinking, whichmay frame a discourse on the meaning of “welcoming
strangers”: hospitality and incorporation. The idea of hospitality is borrowed from
JacquesDerrida'sfamousseminaronthequestion,whileincorporationistakenfromthe
workoftwopsychoanalysts,NicolasAbrahamandMariaTorok.Mypresentationwillre-read Derrida's work on hospitality through the concept of incorporation. As Jacques
Derrida points out, hospitality is marked by the co-existence of two contradictory
demands:onthe one handwhathecalls“unconditionalhospitality,” onthe otherthe
lawsofconditionalhospitality.Theantinomyatthecentreofthisconceptresultsinan
aporetic situation where the conditional would make the unconditional possible and
impossibleatthesametime.Yet,inonepassageofhisseminar,Derridamakesuseofthe
word “incorporation,” whichmight refer toAbrahamand Torok, aboutwhomDerrida
wrote an important essay. Incorporation would consist in the accommodation of
strangersatthecoreoftheegothrough“crypticidentifications.”Yet,itcouldalsoallowus tosee hospitality ina different way, between the letter ofDerrida's discourse and
some uncanny metaphorical transitions, between a literal subject of hospitality, and
hospitalityitselfasasubject.
Keywords:hospitality,incorporation,psychoanalysis,Derrida.
Bibliography
Abraham,Nicolas,andMariaTorok.TheWolfMan'sMagicWord.Trans.NicholasRand.
Minneapolis:UofMinnesotaP,1986.---“Introjection–Incorporation.Mourningor
Melancholy.”inS.LeboviciandD.Widlocher(eds.)PsychoanalysisinFrance.NewYork:
InternationalUP,1980.
Derrida,Jacques.“Fors.TheAnglishWordsofNicholasAbrahamandMariaTorok.”In
Abraham,Nicolas,andMariaTorok.TheWolfMan'sMagicWord.Dufourmantelle,Anne,
andJacquesDerrida.OfHospitality.Trans.RachelBowlby.Stanford:StanfordUP,2000.
Biographicalnote
I am a third-year PhD student at the University of Kent in Canterbury. My research
focusesonarethinkingofthepostcolonialinliteraryandculturalstudies.Ihaveedited
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andcontributedtoaspecialissueoftheonlinejournalSkepsionliteratureandviolence
and I am co-editing a collection of stories of migration. My research interests are:
literature and psychoanalysis, European and non-European aesthetics, cultural
anthropology.
StephanHilpert(UniversityofCambridge)
MutualIntrusions:UlrichSeidl’sImport/ExportthroughJean-LucNancy
Abstract
Import/Export(2007)byAustrianauteurfilm-makerUlrichSeidltellstwodifferentstories
ofmigration inoppositedirectionsbetweenAustriaandEastEuropeancountries.Given
the social and political relevance of its content and Seidl’s specific style, the film has
received a certain amount of scholarly attention. However, in close relation to the
transnationalaspect, Import/Exportalsoprobesissuesofcommunity,contact,exposureand corporeality, which, in their combination and interconnectedness, are also at the
heart of Jean-Luc Nancy’s philosophy. Import/Export does not exhibit any obvious
connectiontoNancy:itisneitherbasedonhisphilosophy,norhashecommentedonthe
film.Thestrikingsimilaritiesinthemesneverthelesssuggestbringingthemtogether.This
paper consequently attempts a reading of the film through Nancy’s work in order to
discuss the extent to which it resonates with certain aspects of his thinking. This
perspectiveshallbeusedtohighlightimportantaspectsof Import/Exportwhichhavenot
beenanalysedcloselyinpreviousdiscussions,intermsofbothnarrativeandcinematic
form. The paper addresses several thematic areas which deserve attention since, inrelation to migration, they are crucially relevant for both Import/Export and Nancy:
intrusionandforeignness,community,touchandthebody.
Keywords:UlrichSeidl,Jean-LucNancy,migration,community
Selectedbibliography
Brady, M. and Hughes, H. (2008), ‘Import and Export: Ulrich Seidl’s Indiscreet
Anthropology of Migration’, gfl-journal (German as a foreign language), 01/2008, pp.
100-122.
Grissemann, S. (2007), Sündenfall:Die Grenzüberschreitungen des FilmemachersUlrich
Seidl,Vienna:Sonderzahl.
Nancy, J.-L. ([1996] 2000), Being Singular Plural (trans. R. D. Richardson and A. E.
O’Byrne),Stanford:StanfordUniversityPress.
–––––([2000]2002),‘L’Intrus’(trans.S.Hanson),CR:TheNewCentennialReview,2:3,pp.
1-14.
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Biographicalnote
IstudyforaPhDattheUniversityofCambridge,writingathesisonpoliticsandspacein
contemporary German-language cinemawith anemphasison filmsbyUlrich Seidland
Christian Petzold. Currently I am a visiting PhD student at the Friedrich Schlegel
Graduiertenschule,FreieUniversitätBerlin.
PANEL3a:ConstructionsoftheOther:contemporarywriters
SaraMarzagora(SchoolofOrientalandAfricanStudies,UniversityofLondon)
LookingbacktotheHornfromRome:theliteraryactivismofEritrean,Somaliand
EthiopianwritersinmulticulturalItaly.
AbstractThe emergence, in the last 20 years, of an Italophone literature by African writers
challenged the rigidity of Italian literary canon. Critics opened for the first time to
disciplines like postcolonial and diaspora studies, but numerous debates over how to
defineandcategorizesuchnewbranchof literaturecontinuetodate.Scholarsstillshow
someresistancetoafullintegrationofthesewriterswithinItalianliterature–parallelto
thescepticismpartofItaliansocietydemonstratedonthepoliticalissueofmulticultural
inclusion. I shall sketch the history and characteristics of this new (and still
underexplored)field,focusinginparticularonItalian-languagenovelsbyauthorsfromthe
HornofAfrica.Criticsagreethatthe issueofmultipleidentitiesisakey themein theworksof
ItalianpostcolonialwritersfromtheHorn.Forthem,suchidentitycrisisisgroundedin
Italy’s inability to critically process its colonial past, and has therefore a prominent
historical dimension. When analysed through existing postcolonial theories, the texts
display a number of significantpeculiarities – firstof all the emphasis on the military
ratherthanculturalaspectsofcolonialdomination.Althoughthesediasporicauthorsare
firmlygroundedinItaliancontemporarydiscourse,suchpostcolonialspecificitieshighlight
thestrongcontinuitiesbetweentheirworksononesideandAmharic,SomaliandTigrinya
literatureontheother.
Keywords: Italian postcolonial literature, literatures of the Horn of Africa diaspora,
multiculturalisminItaly,postcolonialtheory
Selectedbibliography
Barber,K.1995.African-languageliteratureandpostcolonialcriticism.ResearchinAfrican
Literatures26,no.4:3-30.
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DiMaio,A.2009.BlackItalia:ContemporarymigrantwritersfromAfrica.In BlackEurope
andtheAfricanDiaspora,eds.D.H.Clark,D.TricaandS.S.Keaton,119-132.Chicago,
USA:UniversityofIllinoisPress.
Negash, G. 2009. Native intellectuals in the contact zone. African responses to Italian
colonialisminTigrinyaliterature.Biography ,32,no.1:74-88.
Parati,G.2005.MigrationItaly:Theartoftalkingbackinadestinationculture.Toronto,
Canada:UniversityofTorontoPress.
Biographicalnote
AfteraBAandaMAinModernHumanitiesandLiteraryCriticismattheUniversityof
Milan,SaraMarzagoraspecializedinAfricancultureandhistoryatSOAS,withaparticular
focusontheHornofAfrica.SheisnowaPhDcandidateattheCentreforCulturalLiterary
andPostcolonialStudiesatSOAS,researchinghowthe1935-1941ItalianoccupationhasbeenrepresentedinEthiopiacontemporaryliterature.
CynthiaLytle(UniversitatdeBarcelona)
MakingThemStrange:RepresentationsoftheOther
inZoëWicomb’sTheOnethatGotAway
Abstract
Initsbouttoconquerandclassify,imperialismcreatedimagesofthecolonized.Throughsymbolssuchasart,bodiesandgardenscollectedandputondisplay,anillustrationof
thecolonizedlandandpeopleswerecreated.Theseimagesconstructedanessentialist
representation and were transmitted and disseminated throughout the “mother”
countries, embodying the dominance that the imperialpowerheld.These images also
acted as proof that the colonized peoples needed to be controlled. Moreover, the
representationscreatedanexoticismanddesirethatpermeatedtimeandcontinueinto
thepresent
Inhercollectionofshortstoriesentitled,TheOnethatGotAway,SouthAfrican
authorZoëWicombexplorestheconstructionandrepresentationofthestrangethrougha history of colonialismand how imagery exists in the present.Her short stories take
placeinbothSouthAfricaandScotland,wheretheauthorherselfcurrentlyresides,and
illustrates the ways in which strangers are and are not welcomed in each respective
country.UsingthetheoriesofcriticssuchasBendictAnderson,JudithButlerandZygmunt
Bauman,theproposedpresentationwillarguethatinadditiontodepictinghowstrangers
arereceived,Wicombshowshowthesymbolsofthesestrangers—throughsymbolssuch
as characterizations, art and plants—create prejudices that continue discrimination.
Moreover,throughanexplorationofsymbolsandcharacterizationsinhershortstories,
Wicomb questions and the creation of home, community and nation and who is
permittedtobelonginpostcolonialsettings.
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Keywords:postcolonialliterature,nationalism,Other,hybrididentities
Selectedbibliography
Anderson,Benedict.2006(1983).ImaginedCommunities.London:Verso.
Bauman, Zygmunt.2001.Community: Seeking Safety inan InsecureWorld. Cambridge:
Polity.
Butler, Judith and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. 2007. Who Sings the Nation-State?
Language,Politics,Belonging.London:Seagull.
Schipper,Mineke.1999.(1996). ImaginingInsiders:AfricaandtheQuestionofBelonging.
London:Cassel.
Biographicalnote
CynthiaLytleisaPhDstudentattheDepartmentofEnglishandGermanPhilologyatthe
Universitat de Barcelona. Her research interests include postcolonial literature with a
focus on construction and representation of multiracial identities. Her dissertation is
particularlycenteredoncolouredidentitythroughtheworksofSouthAfricanauthorZoë
Wicomb.
LizzieRichardson(DurhamUniversity)
WritingtheMarginsortheMainstream?Figuringthestrangerinartisticpractice
Abstract
RecentartspolicydebatesintheUKcontinuetostruggleoverthequestionofhowto
include and recognise artists from a diverse range of ethnic backgrounds and
nationalities.Akeypointofcontentioniswhetheranyformofprovisionshouldattempt
toseparateorintegratesuchartistsintothe‘mainstream’.Thisdiscussionbroadlymirrors
thatinacademicworkonidentity,inwhichanti-essentialistunderstandingsofsubjectivity
strugglewith anethics of responsibility framed around recognitionof the ‘other’ thatseemstosimultaneouslyreinforcetheirexclusion.Tocontributetothesedebates,this
paperwilldrawontheworkandexperienceofaBlackBritishwriterbasedinBristol,UK.
Itwillshowthatthewriter’sidentityiscomplexlyplayedoutinadynamicbetweenthe
contentofhisworkandthechannelsthroughwhichitisproducedanddisseminated.By
demonstrating how absolute ‘otherness’ is neither consistently useful nor relevant in
apprehendingthewriter’sposition,itwillshowtheimportanceoftemporality,aswellas
location,toconceptionsofthefigureofthestranger.Therefore,thepaperquestionsthe
validityofthecategoryofthestranger,arguingforamorenuancedunderstandingthat
emphasisesthemyriadofwaysinwhichothernessmightmanifestorimpact.
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Keywords:representation,artisticpractice,otherness,marginalisation
Selectedbibliography
ArtsCouncilEngland(2006)WhoseTheatre?ReportontheSustainedTheatreConsulation.
ArtsCouncilEngland,London.
Barnett, C. (2005) Ways of relating: hospitality and acknowledgement of otherness.
ProgressinHumanGeography 29(1)pp.5-21.
Hones,S.(2008)Textasithappens:literarygeographyGeographyCompass2(5)pp.1301-
1317.
Ranciere, J. (2004) The Politics of Aesthetics Translated by G. Rockhill. London:
Continuum.
Biographicalnote
Lizzie Richardson is a postgraduate researcher in the Department of Geography at
Durham University. Her ESRC-funded PhD researchdraws on practices of theatre and
spokenwordperformanceinBristol,UK.Theprojectexplorestheintersectionsbetween
narrative, race and creativity through the lens of performance. She holds degrees in
GeographyfrombothCambridge(BA)andDurham(MA)universities.
PANEL3b:Trans-positions:displacingmusicandmusicians
AlbertoHernándezMateos(UniversityofSalamanca)
Astrangeronbothsides:AntonioEximeno(1729-1808)andtheItalian-Spanishmusical
thought.
Abstract
Asa consequenceof the expulsionofthe Jesuits fromSpain, nearly 5000peoplewere
forcedintoexiletoItalyin1767.AntonioEximeno(1729-1808)wasoneofthem.Beinga
philosopherandamathematician,heusedthemusictheoryasamediumtogetinvolved
intheculturalnetsofasocietywhoselanguageandcustomshedidn’tknow.
Inourpresentation,weshallanalyzetheeffortsEximenodidinordertoassimilate
the Italian culture.Afterabandoning the Societyof Jesus, Eximenopublished the tract
Dell’origineedelleregoledellamusica(1774),whichreflectsthecultural“shock”suffered
by the author, and was disputed by some Italian authors (such as Padre Martini or
VincenzoOlivieri) who judged Eximeno as“the other” due tohis condition ofa Jesuit
who,ontopofthat,wasinexile.
In the Spanish translation of Dell’origine (1796), Eximeno introduced several
alterationsinordertorespondtosomeofthosearguments,aswellastocriticizethe
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opera,andtocreatestereotypedimagesoftheItalianpeople-somethinghewouldnot
daretodoinhishostcountry.InspiteofthecritiqueshefirstreceivedfromsomeSpainsh
authors(whoconsideredhimaforeigntheoretician),Eximenobecameamodelforthe
19th-CenturySpanishnationalistmusicology.
Keywords:Jesuits,Italy,Spain,Enlightenment
Selectedbibliography
CARRERAS,JuanJosé:“HijosdePedrell.Lahistoriografíamusicalespañolaysusorígenes
nacionalistas(1780-1980)”,IlSaggiatoreMusicale,1(2001),p:121-169.
GIMÉNEZ,Enrique,andothers(eds.):EspañolesenItaliaeitalianosenEspaña.IVEncuentro
deinvsetigadoresdelasuniversidadesdeAlicanteyMacerata .Alicante:Universidadde
Alicante,1997.
GUASTI,Niccolò:L’esilioitalianodeigesuitispagnoli.Identità,controllosocialeepratiche
culturali,1767-1798.Roma:EdizionidiStoriaeLetteratura,2006.
NEUBAUER, John:The emantipation ofmusic from language.Departure frommimesis in
Eighteenth-Centuryaesthetics.NewHaven:YaleUP,1986.
Biographicalnote
He holds anMMus Hispanic Music (University of Valladolid-University of Salamanca,
2008),aswellasa BAMusicHistoryandSciences(UniversityofSalamanca,2007)andaBAArtHistory (UniversityofSalamanca,2007).HeiscurrentlyaPhDCandidateatthe
University of Salamanca, with the dissertation “El pensamiento musical de Antonio
Eximeno”(“AntonioEximeno’smusicalthought),underthedirectionofDr.JoséMáximo
Leza.
HeheldaScholarshipforthelastcourseofhisdegree,andatthepresentmoment
he holds a Scholaship “de Formación del Profesorado Universitario” –both of them
awardedbytheMinistryofEducationofSpain.Heparticipatesintheresearchprojects
“LarecepcióndelaóperaitalianayfrancesaenEspaña(1790-1870)”and“Larecepción
delamúsicaitalianaenMadridentre1770y1850.Óperayrepertorioinstrumental”.HehasstayedattheUniversityofToronto(Canada)asaresearchstudent,andhas
publishedtextsinscientificmagazines,suchas RevistadeMusicologíaandEarlyMusic
Magazine,aswellasinbookslikeFuentesdocumentalesinterdisciplinaresparaelstudio
delpatrimonioylaoralidadenEspaña.
Hehasparticipatedinseveralscientificevents,suchasthe IV JornadasdeJóvenes
Musicólogos y Estudiantes de Musicología (Oviedo, Spain, 2011), the Congreso
Internacional Perspectivas interdisciplinares para el trabajo de campo musical en el
periodo de Entreguerras (Salamanca, Spain, 2011), the II Congreso Internacional Luigi
Boccheriniylamúiscadesutiempo(Madrid,Spain,2011),ortheColloquiodiMusicologia
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Hall,Stuart.2003.‘Culturalidentityanddiaspora’.InTheorizingDiaspora:Areader.Eds.
JanaEvansBrazielandAnitaMannur.Malden,MA,OxfordandCarlton,Victoria:
Blackwell.Pp.233-246.
Monson,Ingrid.2007.FreedomSounds:CivilRightsCallOuttoJazzandAfrica.Oxford,
andNewYork:OxfordUniversityPress.
Biographicalnote
Stephanie is a PhD candidate at the Music Department of Music of Royal Holloway,
UniversityofLondon,whereshefurthersherresearchinterestsinSouthAfricanexileand
jazz improvisation. She had previously taught at the University of South Africa and
convenedtwosymposiaonthetopicofmusicandexileincollaborationwiththeGoethe
Institute(Johannesburg)andtheJohannesburgInternationalMozartFestival.
AlanAshton-Smith(LondonConsortium)
MultiKontraCulti:GypsyPunkMulticulturalism
Abstract
This paper sets out to examine Gypsy Punk, a hybridised immigrant subculture and
musicalgenre.AtitscoreisthebandGogolBordello,whichiscomprisedofimmigrants
fromfivecontinentsbasedinNewYork,andwhichwasformedbyUkrainianEugeneHütz
inthelate1990s.
Sinceitisanimmigrantcultureconcernedwithaclashofstyles,onewouldexpectGypsyPunktohaveastanceonglobalisationandmulticulturalism:theaimofthispaper
istodeterminewhatthisstance is. Certainly, itisovertlyconcernedwiththebringing
togetherofdifferentmigrantcultures,butitsexactpositiononthebringingtogetherof
differentnationsandpeoplesrequiresdeeperanalysis.
Gogol Bordello’s concept of Multi Kontra Culti introduces a multicultural
counterculturethatisprevalentthroughouttheirwork,whichusesnotonlyanarrayof
musical styles, but also multiple languages, and which foregrounds the migrant
backgroundsofGogolBordello’smusicians.PatternsofmigrationfromEasternEurope
have no doubt fuelled Gypsy Punk, but immigrants are not necessarily the intendedaudienceofthemovement.Indeed,representationsofthehomelandInGypsyPunkare
oftendistortedorinvented,playingontheprejudicesandpreconceptionsofthoseinthe
west.MultiKontraCulti revealsthecomplexideasconcerningthemeetingofmigrants
andtheirdestinationswhichareatplayinGypsyPunk.
Keywords:GypsyPunk,MultiKontraCulti ,migration,multiculturalism
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Selectedbibliography
Frith,Simon.‘TowardsanAestheticofPopularMusic’,inRichardLeppertandSusan
McClary(eds.):MusicandSociety:ThePoliticsofComposition,Performanceand
Reception(Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,1987),pp.133-149.
Giddens,Anthony.RunawayWorld:HowGlobalisationisReshapingOurLives(London:
Profile,1999).
Hütz,Eugene:‘GogolBordelloArtist’sStatement’.GogolBordello’swebsite
<http://www.gogolbordello.com/the-band/mission/>
Steigerwald,David.Culture’sVanities:TheParadoxofCulturalDiversityinaGlobalized
World (Lanham,MD:Rowman&Littlefield,2004).
BiographicalnoteAlanAshton-SmithiscompletingaPhDinHumanitiesandCulturalStudiesattheLondon
Consortium. The subject of his thesis is the increasingly popular musical genre and
culturalmovement, GypsyPunk,and its relationshipwith suchdiverse fields asmusic,
immigration,mythologyandRomanistudies.
PANEL3c:Theworldoffilm
NataljaPoljakowa(RoyalHolloway,UniversityofLondon)
‘FromourowncorrespondentinBerlin’:theGermanimpactonSovietfilmcultureofthe
1920s
Abstract
The recent surgeof research interest inWeimar-Soviet film collaboration corresponds
withtheinvestigationoftheinfluenceofGerman-Russiancross-culturalencountersinthe
1920sonthetrajectoryofnationalhistories.Sincethemaking,distributionandreception
of films in the two countries were influenced by rapidly growing international
communities, thepaper aims to explore thecinematiccross-fertilisations between the
twoculturesandtheireffectonthedevelopmentofvisualculture,massstereotypingand
thepublicattitudeto‘strangers’.
Firstly,thepaperwillexploreSovietnotionsandmythsaboutWeimarGermany
anditsinfluentialcinemathroughtheexaminationoflittle-knownfilmperiodicalsofthe
1920s (Kino-journal ARK , Kino-nedelya, Sovetskij Ekran) that published film reviews,
reportsabout‘expeditions’toGermanyundertakenbySovietfilmmakersanddiscussions
ofthesignificanceofimportedfilmsforconceptionsofthe‘NewSovietMan’.Adetailed
analysisoftheGermanimpactonRussianfilmisgiventhroughtheexampleofFriedrich
Ermler’sFragmentoftheEmpire(1928).Secondly,thepaperwillaccountforGermany’s
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ambivalenceinthefilmicrepresentationofRussianswhointhe1920sweredividedinto
thetwocommunitiesofconservativeémigrésandrevolutionarycommunists:fromthe
sentimentalityof theclichéd images inWeimar-releasedRussenfilmetotheencounter
withthecinematicrealismoftheSovietavantgardeafter1926.
Keywords:Germany,SovietUnion,1920s,film
Selectedbibliography
Egorova, N., ‘Nemetskie nemye fil’my v sovetskom prokate’ [German silent films
distributedintheSovietUnion],in Kinoivremya.Bulleten’.Vyp.IV(Moscow:Iskusstvo,
1965),pp.380-476
Yangirov,Rashit, ‘RabyNemogo’:Ocherkiistoricheskogobytarusskikhkinematografistov
zarubezhom,1920-1930-egody [‘TheSlavesoftheSilent’:EssaysonthelifeofRussian
cineastes abroad: 1920-30s] (Moscow: Biblioteka-fond ‘Russkoe Zarubezhje’ – Russkijput’,2007)
Tsivian, Juri, ‘Caligari in Russland’: der deutsche Expressionismus und die sowjetische
Filmkiltur’,inMontage/AV2.No.2(1993),pp.35-48
Schlögel ,Karl ,BerlinOstbahnhofEuropas.RussenundDeutscheinihremJahrhundert
(Berlin:SiedlerVerlag,1998)
BiographicalnoteNatalja Poljakowa is the first year PhD student at the Royal Holloway, University of
London.AftergraduatingfromtheSyktyvkarStateUniversityinRussiawhereshestudied
comparative literature in 2006, she was involved in a three-year research project
concerning German-Russian cultural connections at the Institute of World Literature,
RussianAcademyofSciences inMoscow.NataljareceivedherMAinGerman fromthe
RoyalHolloway in 2011 for her dissertation about ‘otherness’ inWeimar cinema. Her
currentresearchinterestsareconcernedwithGerman-Sovietfilmrelationshipsduringthe
interwarperiodwiththemainfocusontheproblemoftheinternationaldistributionand
reception.
RachelKapelke-Dale(UniversityCollegeLondon)
FromStrangerstoStars,StarstoStrangers:GretaGarboandMarleneDietrichinEarly
1930sHollywood
Abstract
RepresentationsofcosmopolitanEuropeanwomenin1930sHollywoodchallengethe
ideaofthewelcomestranger,asonce-popularforeignstarsreceivedincreasingly
negativereviewsandpresscoveragearound1933.Theproposedpaperwillthusstudy
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dropinthepopularityoftwocanonicalEuropeanstars,GretaGarboandMarlene
Dietrich,inHollywoodfrom1930-1933.Theconstructionoffemalestarsasexotic
strangerssituatedthesedisplacedwomenasrepresentativeoftheir“home”nations;the
paperwillquestionwhatthismeantintermsofHollywood’svisionofEuropeandthus
constructionsofnationaldifferencesinaglobalmediaform.
Centeringonthegeo-politicalandindustrialchangesthatoccurredinthisperiod,the
studywillexaminethestars’coverageinthepressasindicativeoftheirpopularand
criticalreception.Indoingso,itwilltracetheconstructionsofGarboandDietrichasstars
intheAmericanimaginationthroughtheinteractionbetweentheir“startexts”andtheir
roles,followedbythesubsequentlapseoftheirinitialpopularity.Forexample,filmslike
Dietrich’sSongofSongs(1933)werereleasedtonegativereviewsandarticles
questioningherfutureviabilityasaHollywoodstar.Thepaperwillthenanalyzethe
extenttowhichtheirrepresentationsandstarpersonaewillinglyconnectedor
disconnectedto“real”eventsoftheday,showinghowpublicreceptionshifted
throughoutthisvitalperiodtomomentarilyturnthesestarsbackintostrangers.
Keywords:Hollywoodexpatriates,cosmopolitanstrangers,transnational
actresses,Europeanstars
Selectedbibliography
Trademagazines:Photoplay,ModernScreen,SilverScreen(amongothers)
Pressreviews:e.g.Hall,Chapin.“PicturesandPlayersinHollywood.”NewYorkTimes,25
September1932,X3.
Wallace,David.ExilesinHollywood.LimelightEditions,2006.
Baxter,John.TheHollywoodExiles.TaplingerPub.Co.,1976
Biographicalnote
AnativeofMilwaukee,WI,RachelKapelke-DalehasaBachelorofArtsfromBrown
UniversityinHistoryofArtandArchitecture(honors)andComparativeLiteraturein
FrenchandEnglish.ShehasaMasterIandIIRecherchefromtheUniversitédeParisVIIinCinemaStudies,whereshestudiedwithMarcVernet,alsowithhonors.Sheis
currentlyaPh.D.candidateintheFilmStudiesdepartmentoftheCentreofIntercultural
Studies,UCL,wheresheisstudyingunderthesupervisionofDr.LeeGrievesonandDr.
MelvynStokes.
HerPh.D.dissertationexaminesthecharactersplayedbyEuropeanwomenstars
ofvariousnationalitiesinHollywoodfrom1929-1941,andstudieshowrepresentationsof
cosmopolitanforeignwomenshiftedduringaperiodofuncertaintyandisolationismin
Americanforeignrelations.Herresearchinterestsincludegeo-politicalinfluenceson
artisticrepresentation,narratology,starstudies,aestheticandcriticaltheory,andpost-
warFrenchfilm.
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KamilZapasnik(Birkbeck,UniversityofLondon)
EscapingOtherness?IdentitiesatTheMargins inClaireDenis’ J’aipassommeil/ICan’t
Sleep.
Abstract
Claire Denis’s 1993 film J’ai pas sommeil/I Can’t Sleep draws a dark and dramatic
descriptionoftheParisianunderworldinhabitedby‘illegalimmigrants’andpost-migrants
at the beginning of 1990’s. This powerfully poignant film examines the lives of the
European Others who suffer through the experiences of racism, xenophobia and
exclusion.
This paper will focus on the problem of migrant and post-migrant identities
represented in Denis’s film. I will closely analyse the character of Camille and his
experiencesofbeinganEuropeanOtherinordertodiscusshowDenis’sfilmexposesthepost-colonial reality of contemporary Parisasa spacewhere the Others are forced to
constantlyre-experiencethesenseofexclusionandnon-belonging.
Furthermore, this paperwill argue that Denis’s film exposes complexity of the
experience of foreignness and Otherness in order to emphasise the exclusionary and
harmful characterof social divisionsprevalentwithin contemporaryWestern societies.
The paper will focus on the character of Camille in order to discuss the relationship
between Camille’s internalizedmarginalisation, hisextremeneed to assimilate andhis
criminalacts.ThroughacloseanalysisofCamille’scomplexpersona,Iwillarguethat
Denis’sfilmcallsforare-considerationoftheexistingsocialstandardsanddivisions.
Keywords:exclusion,post-migrant,assimilation,belonging
Selectedbibliography
Beugnet,Martine."NegotiatingConformity:TalesofOrdinaryEvil."InFranceinFocus.
FilmandNationalIdentity ,byElizabethEzraandSueHarris,195-207.Oxford:Berg,2000.
Lübecker,Nikolaj."TheDedramatizationofViolenceinClaireDenis'sICan'tSleep."
Paragraph30,no.2(2007):17-33.
Oster,Corinne."DecodingUnreadableSpaces:ClaireDenis'J'aipassommeil."Kinoeye:
NewPerspectivesonEuropeanFilm,3:7(2003).www.kinoeye.org/03/07/oster07.php
(accessedJune25,2011).
Silverman,Maxim.DeconstructingtheNation.Immigration,RacismandCitizenshipin
ModernFrance.London:Routledge,1995.
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Biographicalnote
Kamil completed his BA in Film, Video and Interactive Arts at Middlesex University
(London) in 2009. In 2010 Kamil was awarded an MA in European Cultures from the
University of London (Birkbeck). Currently, Kamil is a second year, full-time Research
studentattheDepartmentofEuropeanCulturesandLanguagesatBirbkeck,Universityof
London, where his thesis,Exploring European Identity Through European Cinema,is
supervisedbyDrAndrewAsibongandDrJoanneLeal.
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