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Announcing Keynote Speaker: Heritages of Migration: Moving Stories, Objects and Home
We are delighted to announce the Keynote Speaker for Heritages of Migration: Moving Stories, Objects and Home, an international conference taking place at the National Museum of Immigration in Buenos Aires (6 – 10 April 2017).
Alison Phipps, Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies, University of Glasgow, UK and Co-Convener of Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network (GRAMNET) will deliver the paper
‘Integrating the Disintegrated: Hearing Migratory Aesthetics in the Unspoken and Unspeakable’.
For more information about Professor Phipps and her keynote address, please visit www.heritagesofmigration.wordpress.com/keynote-speaker
Also, a friendly reminder that our Call for Papers is open until 14th October 2016:
Call for Papers - Heritages of Migration: Moving Stories, Objects and Home
Dates: 6 – 10 April 2017
City, Country: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Organisers: Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage (University of Birmingham), Collaborative for Cultural Heritage Management and Policy (University of Illinois)
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Deadline: Call for papers deadline: 14th October 2016
Web link: www.heritagesofmigration.wordpress.com
Short Description: In their movements between old and new worlds, migrant communities carry with them practices, traditions, objects and stories that are transmitted across new communities and through generations. This conference seeks to explore the layering of global cultures that has been produced by centuries of global migration, and its effect on memory, identity and belonging, as well as its effects on tangible and intangible heritage. The conference is designed encourage provocative dialogue across the fullest range of disciplines. Thus we welcome papers from academic colleagues in a wide range of fields. Please see the conference website for full details and call for papers.
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