5th Global Conference
Diasporas: Exploring Critical Issues
Friday 29th June 2012 – Sunday 1st July 2012
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Call for Papers:
This inter- and multi-disciplinary project seeks to explore the
contemporary experience of Diasporas – communities who conceive of
themselves as a national, ethnic, linguistic or other form of cultural
and political construction of collective membership living outside of
their ‘home lands.’ Diaspora is a concept which is far from being
definitional. Despite problems and limitations in terminology, this
notion may be defined with issues attached to it for a more complete
understanding. Such a term which may have its roots in Greek, is used
customarily to apply to a historical phenomenon that has now passed to a
period that usually supposes that Diasporas are those who are settled
forever in a country other from where they were born and thus this term
has lost its dimension of irreversibility and of exile.
In order to increase our understanding of Diasporas and their impact on
both the receiving countries and their respective homes left behind, key
issues will be addressed related to Diaspora cultural expression and
interests. In addition, the conference will address the questions: Do
Diasporas continue to exist? Is the global economy, media and policies
sending different messages about diaspora to future generations?
Papers, workshops, presentations and pre-formed panels are invited on
any of the following themes:
1. Movies and Diasporas
The presence and impact of displaced / globalized populations of
audiences, spectators and producers of new mainstream /Hollywood
/Bollywood cinema are crucial to the emergence of this post-diasporic
cinema, as these narratives from texts to screen constitute a
fundamental challenge for the negotiation of complex diasporic issues
2. Motivational Factors for Research into Diaspora
Factors are numerous including most prominently, artistic and musical
creations, intellectual outputs, and specific religious practices and
which have made a significant international impact.
3. Myths and Symbols: how to meet, and get to know each other through
the use of créative lenses
Diasporas group, re-group and their group myths and symbols change
accordingly. Or Diasporas remain dominated, their myths and symbols
mirror (or rebel) their domination. This manifestation could take in
linguistic, artistic and other creative forms…right down to graffiti to
propaganda. The effects of Diaspora through a creative lens, as often
this is where the true effects of migration and cultural adjustment
expose themselves in a personal and celebratory way. These could include:
* Creative Expression as a result of shifting and integrating cultures.
Cross cultural and cross disciplinary practices / cross cultural
collaboration / representing the self and the nation / connecting
history to the future / third space practice
* Shifting Art Practices and how traditional folk based art forms (art /
music / literature / dance) can accommodate and represent modern
diasporic communities in flux
* New Languages that represent broken boundaries such as graffiti / rap
/ interactive& web based art forms / global design aesthetics /
symbolism / sound& vision / poetry and text / Esperanto
4. Public, Private and Virtual Spaces of Diaspora
The controversial meaning of private/public spaces remain fundamental
arenas in the re/construction of gendered identities in an in-between
space as a Diaspora context nurtures challenges to traditional
socio-cultural behaviors. Virtual Diasporas – This questions a range of
pre conceived notions about physicality, actuality and place (which in
turn open up the discussions around ownership, representation and
nation). Virtual diasporas are not limited to the arts of course but the
shifts toward new technologies within art and design production are
highlighting such issues through various forms of creativity and the
critique that surrounds it.
We anticipate that these and related issues will be of interest to those
working/researching in philosophy, education, ethics, cinematic /
literature, politics, sociology, history, architecture, photography,
geography, globalization, international relations, refugee studies,
migration studies, urban studies and cultural studies.
5. Novel ways to think about Diaspora due to globalization
In the new global world in which cultures act simultaneously how should
we be thinking about Diaspora?
Some pertinent questions in this area that the conference is interested
in addressing are: What are some of the ways to identity and define the
subject in changing political boundaries where cultural interactions are
amplified? What are the processes of social formation and reformation
of? Diasporas that is unique to a global age? How do an intensified
migration age that is coupled with broader and more flexible terrains of
social structures can give Diaspora communities a window of opportunity
to redefine their social position in both the country of origin and the
host country? How does immigration in an age where the media and the
internet are highly accessible, bring individuals to deal with multiple
levels of traditions and cultures? What new cross-’ethnoscapes’ and
cross-’ideoscapes’ are emerging in? In what new methods can we capture
the web of forces that influences Diasporas at the same time?
Other aspects of Diaspora that we are interested in having discussions
about are:
* Economics of diaspora
* Gendered diasporas
* Queer diasporas ‘flexible citizenship’
* Contested diasporic identities
* Invisible diasporas
* Emerging and changing patterns – is there an ‘American diaspora’ in
China? In Dubai? Etc.
* Stateless or homeless diasporas – diasporas of no return
* Guest workers as diasporans?
* Diasporas created by shifting state boundaries
* Internal (intranational diasporas) – for example, First Nations or
Indigenous/Native migration into urban areas
* Diasporans by adoption or ‘diasporans-in-law’ (partners of diasporans
adopted into diasporic communities, extended diasporas through family
relations, etc.)
* Overlapping diasporas, entanglement
* Competing claims or multiple claims on diasporans Inter-diasporan or
multi-diasporan realities
The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed
panel proposals. Papers will also be considered on any related theme.
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 13th January 2012. If
an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be
submitted by Friday 11th May 2012. Abstracts should be submitted
simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word,
WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following information and in this
order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e)
body of abstract, f) up to 10 keywords.
E-mails should be entitled: DIAS5 Abstract Submission.
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes
and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold,
italics or underline). Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned
for the end of the year. We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper
proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you
should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in
cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic
route or resend.
Organising Chairs
Dr S. Ram Vemuri
School of Law and Business
Faculty of Law, Business and Arts
Charles Darwin University
Darwin NT0909
Australia
Email:Ram.Vemuri@???
Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Leader
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Freeland, Oxfordshire,
United Kingdom
Email:dias5@???
The conference is part of the ‘Diversity and Recognition’ series of
research projects, which in turn belong to the At the Interface
programmes of ID.Net. It aims to bring together people from different
areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which
are innovative and challenging. All papers accepted for and presented at
the conference will be published in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may
be invited to go forward for development into 20-25 page chapters for
publication in a themed dialogic ISBN hard copy volume.
For further details of the project, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-recognition/diasporas/
For further details of the conference, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-recognition/diasporas/call-for-papers/
Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we
are not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or
subsistence.
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Diaspora.fi
http://www.diaspora.fi/
Alice Sophie Sarcinelli
Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les Enjeux Sociaux (Sciences sociales, Politique, Santé)
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Médecins du Monde
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Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les Enjeux Sociaux (Sciences sociales, Politique, Santé)
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Médecins du
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