Cultural Encounters–Commodity Chains–Labor Migration: World Regions Transnationalities–Transidentities–Hybridities-Diasporisation. 1st Annual Conference of the Centre for Area Studies

By
Antje Zettler, Universität Leipzig

Das Centre for Area Studies der Universität Leipzig ist eine interdisziplinäre und fakultäts-übergreifende Forschungseinrichtung, die sich der Frage widmet, welche Position verschiedene Weltregionen im Zeitalter der Globalisierung einnehmen und wie sich das Verständnis von Weltregionen unter dem Eindruck intensivierter globaler Flüsse von Waren, Kapital, Menschen und Ideen verändert. Unter dem Titel „Cultural Encounters and Political Orders in a Global Age“ bündelt das Zentrum die Kompetenzen der verschiedenen regionalwissenschaftlichen Institute der Universität Leipzig in einem gemeinsamen Arbeitsprogramm und verleiht ihnen damit auch größere nationale und internationale Sichtbarkeit.

Die erste Jahrestagung des CAS trägt den Titel: "Cultural Encounters – Commodity Chains – Labor Migration: World Regions Transnationalities – Transidentities – Hybridities - Diasporisation" und findet vom 27. bis 29. Oktober in Leipzig statt.

Das detaillierte Konferenzprogramm steht im Internet zum Download bereit unter http://www.uni-leipzig.de/cas/images/stories/Dokumente/faltblatt_cas_%20jahrestagung_2010.pdf

Programm

Wednesday 27/10/2010
18.00 Reception with Inaugural Addresses
19.30 Reception

Thursday 28/10/2010
Section I
Cultural Encounters - Commodity Chains - Labor Migration: World Regions

9.00 – 9.30
Matthias Middell (Leipzig): Opening remarks
Commodity Chains, Migration and Cultural Encounters - Approaches in the Writing of Global History

9.30 – 11.00
Panel 1 (Convener: Markus-Michael Müller, Leipzig)
A Global culture of urban social control? Latin America, Africa and Europe in comparative perspective

11.30 – 13.00
Panel 2 (Convener: Elisabetta Porcu, Leipzig)
Commodification of religions in Japan and Africa

15.00 – 17.00
Panel 3 (Convener: Matthias Middell, Leipzig)
Migration and Portals of Globalisation

17.30 – 19.00
Round Table: Area Studies in an Age of Globalisation: Rethinking Intellectual and Institutional Tradition

Section II
Transnationalities - Transidentities - Hybridities - Diasporisation

9.00 – 9.45
Manuela Consonni (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Is the concept of ‘Diaspora’ changed after WW II?

9.45 – 10.30
Alfonso de Toro (Universität Leipzig): Translatio 'Performative Diasporas' and Hybridity in the Globalization

10.30 – 11.15
Michael Rössner (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien): Translating Diaspora

11.30 – 12.15
Teófilo Altamirano Rúa (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú): Remittances and local development in Mexico and Peru

12.15 – 13.00
Wai Chee Dimock (Yale University, New Haven): Many Islams: Lower Manhattan to Paul Bowles’ Morocco

15.00 – 15.45
Michelle Habell-Pallán (University of Washington, Seattle): Transnational Politics of Representation in Post-911 Latino Music

15.45 – 16.30
Crister Garrett (University of Leipzig): Latino Voters and the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election: Evidence of an Emerging Transcultural Americas?

17.30 – 19.00
Round Table: Area Studies in an Age of Globalisation: Rethinking Intellectual and Institutional Tradition

Friday 29/10/2010
Section I
Cultural Encounters - Commodity Chains - Labor Migration: World Regions

9.00 – 11.00
Panel 4 (Convener: Nadine Sieveking, Leipzig)
Whose culture? Migrations and mutations of performance

11.30 – 13.00
Panel 5 (Conveners: Martin Heckel, Leipzig / Md. Noor Un Nabi, Leipzig)
Transnationality and law in global commodity chains

15.00 – 16.30
Panel 6 (Convener: Geert Castryck, Leipzig)
Cultural encounters and the generative force of misunderstanding

Section II
Transnationalities - Transidentities - Hybridities - Diasporisation

9.00 – 9.45
Amaryll Chanady (University of Montreal): The flâneur takes the metro: the intercultural production of locality in the global city

9.45 – 10.30
Brad Epps (Harvard University): Memory (De)colonized: Donato Ndongo, Equatorial Guinea, Spain, and the Trans-Atlantic

10.30 – 11.15
Dieter Ingenschay (University of Humboldt of Berlin): (Post)Coloniality – Migration – Literature, in Spain

11.30 – 12.15
Cornelia Sieber (University of Leipzig): Strategies of writing back in narrations of illegal migration to Spain

12.15 – 13.00
Gabriele Pisarz-Ramírez (University of Groningen): I suspect we got lost while crossing the border: Canadian Latino/a Writers and Latino Studies

15.00 – 15.45
Christopher Larkosh (University of Massachussetts): Writing ‘Across the Current’ of Transnational and Border Studies

15.45 – 16.30
Reda Bensmaia (Brown University): Gilles Deleuze borderline(s)

Contact (announcement)

Antje Zettler
Centre for Area Studies
University of Leipzig
email: cas@uni-leipzig.de
Phone: +49 (0) 341- 973 78 84
Fax: +49 (0) 341- 973 90 99

PD Dr. Cornelia Sieber
email: sieber@rz.uni-leipzig.de
Ibero-American and Francophone Research Center
Phone: +49 (0) 341- 973 74 92

http://www.uni-leipzig.de
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Published on
03.10.2010
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