ESF Research Conferences

17:00 - 19:00

Registration at ESF Desk

19:00 - 19:30

Welcome Drink

19:30

Dinner

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
Chair: Irene Gedalof

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
Ethics, power and representation in photo-elicitation interviews with immigrant populations

15:05 - 15:25

Carmen Fernandez-Casanueva, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Tapachula, MX
“I took this picture to show my mum I’ve been working hard here”: Honduran migrants exploring their migratory experiences in a border city in southern Mexico

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
Telling Tales away from Home: Reconstructing an Irish Immigrant story from 1950s London through redeployment of a family archive

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.

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

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

08:00

Breakfast and Departure

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