Dear all,
Please find details of the two-day conference on the geographies of
trans-national networks to be held on Thursday and Friday, May 26th and
27th. All are welcome... if you have any queries, please get in touch,
best wishes,
Dave
Geographies of Transnational Networks
Conference Programme
Foresight Centre, University of Liverpool
Thursday 26th May
10:00 - 11:00 Registration and Coffee
11:00 - 12:30 Plenary Session: 'Networks on the Move'
John Urry, University of Lancaster
Discussant: David Sadler, Liverpool
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch: Foresight Centre
1:30 - 3:00 Transnationalism and the everyday:
· Jonas Larsen, Lancaster, Social networks in a Mobile age
· Johanna Waters, Liverpool, title tba
· David Conradson and Alan Latham, Southampton, 'Friendship, mobility and
feeling: transnational networks of connection'
3:00 - 3:30 Tea
3:30 - 5:30 Nationalism beyond the nation
· Tim Bunnell, Singapore, Politics and geopolitics of Malayness: Malay
diaspora and (trans)national identities
· Enrico Azicate, Manchester, Transnational dimensions of Philippine
nationalism
· Sean Carter, Exeter, Croatian diaspora and the complex geopolitics of
transnational networks
· Elizabeth Mavroudi, Durham, Negotiating transnational identities and
spaces of political activism: the Palestinian diaspora in Athens, Greece
6:30 - 9:00 Wine reception and buffet: Roxby Building, Top Floor
9:00 - Drinks at Everyman on Hope Street.
Friday 27th May
9:00 - 10:30 Historical geographies of transnationalism
· Seth Cotlar, Willamette, Oregon 'Imagining a nation of reader-citizens:
American democratic printers and the construction of transnational
political subjectivities in the 1790s'
· David Lambert, Royal Holloway, Alan Lester, Sussex 'Colonial lives across
the British Empire: Imperial careering in the long nineteenth century'
· Alan Lester, Sussex, ''Colonial Lives: William Shrewsbury and the Captive
Audience in the Caribbean and the Cape Colony''
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
11:00 - 1:00 Transnational activism
· Angela Hale, Women Working Worldwide, title tba
· Paul Routledge, Andy Cumbers, Corrine Nativel, Glasgow, 'Entangled
operational logics of global justice networks
· Jeremy Anderson, Queen Mary's London, Reconfiguring transnational trade
union networks: the case of the SEIU-TGWU
· Jon Binnie, Manchester Metropolitan, Scaling sexual citizenship:
globalisation and the queer politics of mobility
1:0 - 2:00 Lunch: Foresight Centre
2:00 - 3:30 Contested networks
· James Sidaway, Singapore, Geographies of Post-Development
· Annette Desmarais, Regina, Power of peasants: reflections on the meanings
of the Via Campesina
· David Featherstone, Liverpool, 'Politics of the past unbound:
transnational networks and the making of political identities'
3:30 - 4:00 Tea
4:00-5.00 Panel Session and Round Table, including:
· Katie Willis, Royal Holloway
· Alison Blunt, Queen Mary's, London
· Rachel Colls, Liverpool
· Raye Ng, Liverpool
Geographies of Transnational Networks
Registration form
Name
Affiliation
Address
Email
Title of paper (if applicable)
Registration fees:
Academic / salaried £50 Thursday and Friday
£30 Thursday (including reception and buffet)
£20 Friday
Students / unwaged £20 Thursday and Friday
£15 Thursday (including reception and buffet)
£10 Friday
Payment: by May 20 to Department of Geography, University of Liverpool, c/o
Andrea Wall, Department of Geography, Roxby Building, University of
Liverpool, L69 7ZT. Please make cheques payable to: 'University of
Liverpool'.
Please note any dietary requirements, including vegetarian/ vegan etc:
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