ESF Research Conferences

ESF-LiU Conference

Home, Migration and the City: New Narratives, New Methodologies

6-10 August 2010

 

Final Programme

Friday 6 August

17:00 - 19:00
Registration at ESF Desk
19:00 - 19:30
Welcome Drink
19:30
Dinner
Saturday 7 August

08:45 - 09:00Welcome 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 -  09:45Ulrike Meinhof, University of Southampton, UK
Moving music: transnational artists and their stories
09:45 - 10:30Tovi Fenster, Tel Aviv University, IL
Visualising movement: Mental maps of home and belonging
10:30 - 11:00Coffee 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
12:30Lunch
Session 3: Narrating and representing migration I
Chair: Zlatko Skrbis
14:00 - 14:45Ayona 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 - 16:00Coffee Break
Session 4: Narrating and representing migration II
Chair: Iain Chambers
16:00 - 16:20Irene 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
19:00Dinner
20:30 - 22:00Poster Session: all selected poster presenters will have 3 minutes time to introduce their poster.
Sunday 8 August

Session 5:  The Materiality of Home and Belonging I
Chair: Ayona Datta
09:00 – 09:45Mirjana 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
13:00Lunch
15:00 - 17:30
Excursion
19:00Reception and conference dinner
Monday 9 August

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 - 10:30Adrian Favell, Aarhus University, DK
Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in the EU
10:30 - 11:00Coffee Break
Session 8:  Narrating, Experiencing and Changing City Spaces II
Chair: Tovi Fenster
11:00 - 11:20Peter 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
12:30Lunch
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 - 15.05Syrine 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 - 16:20Gayathri 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
Tuesday 10 August

08:00
Breakfast and Departure
List of Accepted Posters

Abraham ShirleyThe 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 ArnonMovement, Enrooting, Resistance – Tarig A'Tir (Road 316) Aa a Place for Urbanized Arab-Bedouin
Cachado RitaHousing and home(s) narratives – public policies and Hindu Portuguese families life projects
Campos CynthiaThe effects of the Nationalization Campaign: The Prohibition of the German Language in Southern Brazil during the Second World War
De Vries IngeMaking a home: material culture of international students in Groningen
Easwaran ChirakkalMyaspora Tool for Mapping and Tracking Personal Diaspora Histories
Giese KarstenMigrant 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 TabithaMigration 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 ObiajuluMigration 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 MarinaMigrants' Perception of Transnational Social Spaces: A Methodological Inquiry
Robinson Katherine Making a Beginning
Robinson Katherine
Making a Beginning