Dear colleagues,
it would be great to see some of you at our conference on transnational neighbourhoods which will take place at the end of this month in Dublin. For more information please find the programme below or visit: http://www.ucd.ie/humanities/events/ourevents/archive/name,455186,en.html
With best wishes,
Maria
Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood: Integration, Community, and Co-Habitation
A UCD Humanities Institute conference in collaboration with The Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London
25-26 September 2019
VENUE: UCD HI Seminar Room H204 (unless otherwise stated)
– CONFERENCE PROGRAMME –
DAY 1: Wednesday, 25 September
9.00-9.45: REGISTRATION
9.45-10.00: WELCOME
10.00-11.00: Plenary Keynote
Lecture 1 – Gillian Jein (Newcastle University):
Re-Visioning Violence in Transnational Paris: The Art of the Street
11.00-11.30: BREAK
11.30-13.00: Parallel Panels 1
The ‘Kiez’ and Urban Neighbourhoods – Case Studies from Germany
Anita Bunyan (University of Cambridge): Critiques of the ‘Kiez’. Representations of the Urban Neighbourhoods of Berlin in the Works of Contemporary Jewish Writers in Germany
Max Lazar (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): Fostering a Culture of Integration. Municipal Politics, Urban Space, and Jewish Integration in Frankfurt am Main, 1913-1933
Hanna Hamel (Humboldt University of Berlin): City, Country, ‘Kiez’. Neighbourhood in Contemporary Literature in Berlin
(Counter-)Cultural Responses to (the) Neighbourhood
Anna Marta Marini (Instituto Franklin, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares): The Materiality of the Wall(s). Counter-space appropriation in El Paso’s South side
Mary Mazzili (University of Essex): The Concept of Home in Transnational and Transcultural spaces in Post-Brexit Britain. Migrant Communities in North Essex Connected through Theatre
Varshaver Evgeni, Anna Rocheva & Natalyia Ivanova (Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration): The Role of the Neighborhood Intercultural Events in the Migrant Integration in Moscow, Russia
13.00-14.00: LUNCH
14.00-15.30: Parallel Panels 2
Writing Transnationalism and Migration
Dervila Cooke (Dublin City University): Language, migration and place: Laura Alcoba between France and Argentina
Aleksandra Goclawska (University of Cambridge): Close lands? Plurilingual Landscapes and Migration in the Prose of Julia Fiedorczuk
Daphne Seemann (Technical University Dublin): Precarious lives in the 'out-places' of urban neighbourhoods. Flight, homelessness and non-arrival in Abbas Khider's Ohrfeige (Slap in the Face)
Islands, Borders and Migrations
Maria Cristina Fumagalli (University of Essex): ‘Solidarity is our Wealth’. Representing and Navigating Transnational Neighbourhoods and Communities in Santo Domingo
Bridget Wooding (OBMICA, Santo Domingo): Transnational Navigation by Haitian Children on the Dominican Borderlands in Search of a Better Life
Valeria Ingenito (University of Naples l’Orientale): International migration and insularity: immigrants street vendors in local markets of Neapolitan archipelago islands
15.30-15.45: BREAK
15.45-17.15: Panel 3
Citizenship and Belonging Beyond the Nation State
Ron Hayduk (San Francisco State University) & Kathleen Coll (University of San Francisco): Transnational Neighbors, Urban Voters. Noncitizen Voting Rights in the United States
Emilio Maceda (Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala): Church of All Saints in Brooklyn, New York. From Religious Space to Transnational Territory of Multi-Territorial Mexican Immigrants
Daniela Sheinin (University of Michigan): Neighborhood Memories on Display. Rethinking Space and Immigrant Identities
17.15-17.30: BREAK
17.30-18.30: Plenary Keynote
Lecture 2 – Sandra Ponzanesi (Utrecht University):
Digital Cosmopolitanism: Local Networks and Transnational Communities
19.30: DINNER [registration required] @ Ashton’s Gastropub
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DAY 2: Thursday, 26 September
9.30-11.00: Panel 4
Planning and Navigating the Transnational Urban Environment
Gad Schaffer (Tel Hai College): The transformation of space in a divided city: the Jaffa-Jerusalem railway track
Tamar Arieli (Tel Hai College): Culture, identity, and prospects for inter-municipal cooperation in heterogeneous peripheral regions
Maya Vardi (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology): Urban Planning and Forced Migration: Urban Citizens with No National Citizenship
11.00-11.15: BREAK
11.15-12.45: Panel 5
The Politics of (Non-)Belonging
Saeed Ahmad (University of Göttingen): Memories of Exclusion. Producing Spaces of Belonging in Jangpura-Bhogal, Delhi
Shamea Y. Mia (Queen Mary University of London): Integration, Memories and Belonging. Familial Relationships and Communal Boundaries for Second-Generation Bangladeshi Women
Ruth Kaplan & Rachel Kallus (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology): Manufacturing a Sense of Belonging. Urban Space of Jewish Textile Workers in an East European Industrial Town 19th Century Łódź, Poland, as a Case Study
12.45-13.45: LUNCH
13.45-14.45: Plenary Keynote
Lecture 3 – Yaron Matras (University of Manchester):
Language and the neighbourhood. How multilingualism re-defines community
14.45-15.00: BREAK
15.00-16.30: Panel 6
Layered/Palimpsestic Territories
Emma Crowley (University Reading/University Bristol): “Your Allah can’t see you here”: Subterranean spaces and dissimulated life in Secondhand Time
L.E. Eames (University of Washington): Neighborhood collage: abstracting urban density and transformation
Stefan Willer (Humboldt University of Berlin): Transcultural Monolingualism: Georg Klein's Libidissi
16.30-16.45: BREAK
16.45-18.15: Plenary Session
Workshop/Discussion: What constitutes the Transnational Neighbourhood?
18.15: END OF CONFERENCE
19.00: PUB
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Conference Organisers:
Prof. Anne Fuchs, UCD Humanities Institute, University College Dublin
Dr. Godela Weiss-Sussex, IMLR, University of London/King’s College Cambridge
Dr. Britta C. Jung, IRC Postdoctoral Fellow, UCD Humanities Institute, University College Dublin
Dr. Maria Roca Lizarazu, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Birmingham
Dr. Stephan Ehrig, IRC Postdoctoral Fellow, UCD Humanities Institute, University College Dublin
To register please fill out the Registration Form and email it to [log in to unmask]
For any queries about the conference, please contact one of the organisers or email [log in to unmask]
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