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Cultures in Transit Conference
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Provisional Programme
Conference registration will take place from 2pm to 4pm on Friday, 18th July 2008. Can delegates please ensure that they sign up for the activities taking place on Sunday afternoon as a part of the ‘Cultural Tour’ of Liverpool during registration.
We hope that you all thoroughly enjoy the conference.
Friday, 18th July 2008.
4pm – 6pm Parallel Panels 1 & 2:
Panel 1: Chair – To be announced
Johannah Caitriona Duffy (University of Nottingham, UK) British Society and the Other.
Olukayode Ayankojo (York University, Canada) Impact of Globalization on Production and Consumption of Music in the Nigerian Society and Diaspora.
Tasleem Shakur (Edge Hill University, UK) Contesting Cultures Negotiating Hybridity? Interrogating three contemporary South Asian bilingual films.
Panel 2: Chair – Terry Phillips
Iris Guske (Kempten School of Translation and Interpreting Studies, Germany) Growing up between countries, cultures and religions in the 20th century:Can the Kindertransport experience be seen as a diasporic experience?
Guy Tourlamain (Liverpool Hope University, UK) Resisting Change: Völkisch-Nationalist Writers and Cultural Transition in Germany after the Second World War.
Jennifer Rutherford (University of Melbourne, Australia) Hansonella: The Mytho-Poetics of a Global Story.
Richard Hil (Southern Cross University, Australia) War, Displacement, Identity: The Case of Iraqi External Refugees.
7.30/8.00pm Cultural Evening – Welcome from Terry Phillips
Photographic Exhibition – Glynis Shaw (Independent - UK) The Hui Minority in the Hebei Province on the North of the Grand Canal, China.
Film showing – Sangita Shresthova (U.S.) Dancing Kathmandu.
Saturday, 19th July 2008.
9am – 11am Parallel Panels 3 & 4.
Panel 3: Chair – Isobel Morais
David Brookshaw (University of Bristol, UK) The Macanese: A Colonial Diaspora between Empires.
Gustavo Infante (University of Bristol, UK) Deolinda da Conceição: static Macau and Macau in transition in the short stories of a Macanese woman.
Claire Williams (University of Liverpool, UK) Next Door to China: Macau through the eyes of Maria Ondina Braga.
Panel 4: Chair – Charlie Blake
Anca Balcanu (Jean Moulin University, France) Roma Issue(s): The Images of Romanian Gypsies at Home and Abroad.
Mojca Vah (Slovenian Academy for Science and Art, Slovenia) The Fate of Small Nations during times of Mass Emigration: The case of Slovenians.
Ruxandra Trandafoiu (Edge Hill University, UK) Voice from the ‘margin’? Romanian diaspora as multidiscursive online diaspora.
Audrey Small (University of Sheffield, UK) Always the immigrant, never the expatriate? : Persistent questions for the contemporary nomad in the work of Fatou Diome.
11am – 11.30am – Morning Tea
11.30 – 1pm Welcome from Terry Phillips
Key Speaker: Chair - Gregory Lee
Brian Castro (University of Adelaide, Australia) Arrested Motion and Future Mourning: Hybridity and Creativity.
1pm – 2pm Lunch
Saturday Afternoon.
2pm – 4pm Parallel Panels 5 & 6.
Panel 5: Chair – Ruxandra Trandafoiu
Huang Yu (Jean Moulin University, France) The Reality TV Show Phenomenon in Chinese Contemporary Televisual Culture.
Yi Fu (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK) Connecting to the “Host”: A study of the Nottingham Chinese New Year Festival.
Simon Piasecki (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK) Free Hold : Fear, Containment and Glossalic Performance.
Marie Laureillard (Jean Moulin University, France) Yang Lian: a poet in exile.
Panel 6: Chair – Iris Guske
Declan Patrick (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) Dancing Maria Clara: Romance and Resistance?
Tsendpurev Tsegmid (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK) Nationalism and globalisation in contemporary visual art; how border guards in Outer Mongolia represent sense of national identity.
Parminder K. Bhachu (Clark University, US) Diaspora Designs and Style Politics in Global Markets: Asian Fashion Entrepreneurs in London.
Jean-Daniel Colomb (Jean Moulin University, France) Christianity to Ecology: John Muir's Walk through America.
4pm – 4.30pm Afternoon Tea
4.30pm – 6pm Key Speaker: Chair – Terry Phillips
Alan Suberchicot (Jean Moulin University, France)
6.45pm Bus leaves for Hope Park where the Conference Banquet is to take place. The bus will leave from the Shaw Street lay-by next to Gerard Manley Hopkins Hall.
7.30pm Reception at Hope Park.
8.00pm Conference Banquet – To be held at the Rector’s Dining Room, Hope Park.
Sunday, 20th July 2008.
9am – 11am Parallel Panels 7 & 8.
Panel 7: Chair – To be announced
Victoria Ríos Castaño (University of Ulster and University of Nottingham, UK) “The Alphabet is a Luminous Prison”: The World of the Nahuas in Historia universal de las cosas de Nueva España.
Isabel Morais (Macau Inter-University Institute, China) Chinese Cubans: Tradition and Revolution.
Daniel Stone (King’s College, UK) Cultural change and exchange: Afro-Brazilian religion and intellectuals during the 1930s.
Luciana Mendonça (University of Coimbra, Portugal) Crossing the Ocean: Brazilian popular music in Portugal and other cross-cultural contexts.
Panel 8: Chair - Eleni Sideri
Patrick Dillon, Phil Bayliss (University of Exeter, UK) and Ines Stolpe (Humboldt University, Germany) What constitutes ‘context’ in sociocultural research? How experience of Mongolia challenges theory.
Mizuho Nakajima (Jean Moulin University, France) Reception of Western knowledge in late 19th century Japan: An example of the school of Ogata Kôan, Tekijuku.
Turaeva Okila Khamraevna (Institute of the History of Academic Sciences, Uzbekistan) Jewish Diaspora of Central Asia: diversity, differences and transformations (in the mid. 19th – early 20th centuries).
Arish Kottayam (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) Itinerant Missionaries and the Production of Public Spaces in Nineteenth Century Keralam.
11am – 11.30am Morning Tea
11.30am – 1pm Key Speaker: Chair – To be announced.
Stephanos Stephanides (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Transculturation and Critical Cosmopolitanism.
1pm – 2pm Lunch
2pm Cultural Tour of Liverpool – To Include:
Bert Hardy Chinatown photographic exhibition, Open Eye Gallery – 2 pm.
Merseyside Council of Faiths Walk of Faith
Tall Ships’ Parade of Sail and Final Night Celebration – Albert Dock
Monday, 21st July 2008.
9am – 10.30 Key Speaker: Chair – Gregory Lee
Evelyn Ch’ien (University of Minnesota)
10.30am – 11.00 Morning Tea
11.00 – 1pm Parallel Panels 9 & 10.
Panel 9: Chair – Michael Holmes
Susan Collard (University of Sussex, UK) ‘Britishness' in the French countryside.
Jinny Choi (University of Texas, US) Diaspora and Transcultural Experiences: the Case of Korean Immigrant Community in the United States. Its Language and Ethnic Identity.
Zhang Jinling (Jean Moulin University, France) Spectacles of National Identities in Everyday Life: Hybrid Citizenship and Identifying with Local Community. A Case Study about Croix-Rousse in Lyon.
Slavica Srbinovska (Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Macedonia) Reading the Other by pushing the boundaries of Time and Space.
Panel 10: Chair – Guy Tourlamain
Eleni Sideri (University of Thessaly, Greece) The Diaspora of a Diaspora: a working paper of a definition.
Devorah Romanek (The British Museum, UK) Diaspora Identities: Jewish Bakeries and Baked Goods in London and Berlin.
Kati Nurmi (University of Liverpool, UK) Small nation emigration: Irish and Finnish Diaspora 1880-1914 .
Yan Sayegh (Jean Moulin University, France) Cultural Hybridity and Modern Binaries: Overcoming the opposition between identity and “Otherness”?
1 pm – 2pm Lunch
2pm Plenary Session
Close and thanks by Terry Phillips
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