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Subject: [FORCED-MIGRATION] Call for papers: International Conference ITN
CoHaB: “Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging”

CoHaB:
The Marie Curie Initial Training Network “Diasporic Constructions of Home and
Belonging” (CoHaB) unites world-leading experts in this field in the
conviction that interdisciplinary training as well as international and
intersectoral co-operation is key to any productive study of diasporas.
Bringing together internationally renowned scholars from different
disciplines such as literary and cultural studies, anthropology, sociology
and social geography, this ITN has as one of its important objectives to
effect a transition in diaspora studies from interdisciplinary to
transdisciplinary approaches. Drawing on and fusing different disciplinary
models and approaches, CoHaB aims at developing a shared terminology and
providing a new understanding of diaspora as an analytical category and lived
experience.
For more information on CoHaB please refer to www.itn-cohab.eu.

CoHaB’s international conference will be held from September 22-25, 2013, at
the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster, Germany. Papers from all
disciplines on the following topic are invited:

“Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging”

Our globalised world is shaped by international migration. Large numbers of
individuals and often entire groups or even nations are on the move for a
wide variety of reasons. This phenomenon creates massive challenges to nation
states and civil societies, culturally, economically, and politically, but
also creates opportunities and new perspectives in an unprecedented degree.
The study of diaspora and migration has therefore evolved into a burgeoning
field of research with an urgent practical relevance.
As Khachig Tölölyan argues in his essay “The Contemporary Discourse of
Diaspora Studies,” the current focus in diaspora seems to be on the notion of
dispersal rather than settlement. Stable concepts of home and belonging have,
for a variety of reasons, become the exception rather than the rule. As a
result, the traditional focus of diaspora studies needs to be widened by
extending it to the diasporic meaning of home — a place generally associated
with security and comfort — and the diasporic construction of belonging in
our modern time.
Submissions for 20-minute papers may include, but are not restricted to:
 interdisciplinary approaches to the concept of ‘home’
 emplacement and displacement
 positionality and intersectionality
 diasporic spaces
 questions of citizenship and settlement

Organising Institution:
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
English Department, Chair of British Studies
Prof. Dr. Klaus Stierstorfer
Address:
Englisches Seminar
Johannisstr. 12-20
48143 Muenster
Germany

Registration:
300 word abstracts should be submitted by 28 February, 2013. For sending in
abstracts as well as further information, please contact Marlena Tronicke,
M.A. at [log in to unmask]

Please note there will be a registration fee of 50 Euro.

http://www.itn-cohab.eu/conferences/conference-2013

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