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AHRC Diasporas, Migration and Identities Programme / CRONEM Conference 2009

Diasporas, Migration and Identities: Crossing Boundaries, New Directions

University of Surrey, 11-12 June 2009

From left: Martyn Barrett, Kim Knott, Ato Quayson, Ien Ang, Robin Cohen, Peggy Levitt, John Eade and Chris Flood

‘Diasporas, migration and identities’ has been the subject of a major national research programme funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in the UK since 2005.  Its central concerns have also been at the heart of the work of the Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism (CRONEM). The aim of this international conference was to examine the past and present impact of diasporas and migration on nation, community, identity and subjectivity, culture and the imagination, place and space, emotion, politics, law and values.

KEYNOTES:

Ien Ang, Professor of Cultural Studies, University of Western Sydney, Australia

Cosmopolitanising multiculturalism?

Robin Cohen, Professor of Development Sociology, University of Oxford  and Honorary Professor, University of Warwick, UK

Crossing the boundaries of social identity: creolization from Cape Verde to Barack Obama

Peggy Levitt, Associate Professor, Wellesley College and Co-Director, Transnational Studies Initiative, Harvard University, USA

Creating global citizens: lessons from women’s rights activism

Ato Quayson, Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada

Postcolonialism and diaspora: dialogue and difference
PLENARY SESSIONS:
Diasporas, migration and identities: mobility and strategic identities

Dispositions and destinations: theorising the Bengal diaspora, Joya Chatterji, Cambridge University

Struggles over significance: strategic identities of South Asian women workers at Grunwick and Gate Gourmet, Ruth Pearson and Sundari Anitha, University of Leeds

Diasporas, migration and identities: transnational networks, sociality and the sacred

Transnational musicians' networks: a challenge to migration research, Ulrike Hanna Meinhof, University of Southampton

Sacred journeys, diasporic lives: sociality and the religious imagination in the Filipino diaspora, Pnina Werbner, Keele University

PROGRAMME AND PAPERS / POSTERS

 

 

    
               

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