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italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies Displaced Women: Multilingual Narratives of Migration in Europe http://www.literatureandphilosophy.com/index.htm Organised by Dr. Lucia Aiello, Dr. Joy Charnley, Dr. Mariangela Palladino 28-30 March 2012 Glasgow Women’s Library 15 Berkeley Street, Glasgow G3 7BW, Scotland (UK) CONFERENCE PROGRAMME 28 March 2012 14.00-14.30 Registration and Coffee 14.30-15.00 Opening Speeches Session A Dialogue and Otherness (Chair: Lucia Aiello) 15.00-15.20 Mastoureh Fathi (University of East London), “Translation of Iranian Women’s Diasporic Narratives" 15.20-15.40 Zsuzsanna Varga (University of Glasgow), “From Hungary to Switzerland: Agota Kristof’s Take on the Postmodern” 15.40-16.00 Joanna Neilly (University of Edinburgh), “Zulima’s Songs: Musical Language and the Muslim Captive in German Romantic Fiction” 16.00–16.30 Discussion 17.30–18.30 Wine Reception, Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD 29 March 2012 Session B Women and Citizenship (Chair: Caroline Mackenzie) 9.30-9.50 Isabel Schropper (Independent scholar based in Vienna), “ ‘Jus sanguinis’ or ‘jus soli’? The Austrian and British Nationality Law” 9.50–10.10 Rachel McCarthy (DECC/Defra), “Climate Change, Migration and the Concepts of Space, Identity and Home in 20th Century Women’s European Poetry” 10.10–10.30 H. Rosi Song (Bryn Mawr College), “Translating Kinship: Narratives around Women’s Migration” 10.30–11.00 Discussion 11.00-11.30 Coffee breaks, Glasgow Women’s Library Session C Intercultural Mediations (Chair: Joy Charnley) 11.30-11.50 Elena Gretchanaia (Université d’Orléans), “Varvara Rimskaya-Korsakova and a Phenomenon of Migrant Russian Women” 11.50-12.10 Thérèse Moreau (Lausanne), “I, Christine, Italian Woman” 12.10–12.30 Juliana Jovicic (University of Novi Sad), “Migrant Women Acting as Intercultural Mediators. An Example by Two Women from the 19th Century: Therese Albertine Luise von Jakob-Robinson (and Wilhelmina Karadzic-Vukomanovic” 12.30 – 13.00 Discussion 13.00-14.30 Lunch Break, Stirling Room, The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN 14.30- 15.30 Keynote Speaker: Dr Suzan van Dijk (Huygens Institute for Dutch History, Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, The Hague, NL) Session D Memory, Trauma and Testimony (Chair: Elwira Grossman) 15.30 - 15.50 Charlotte Lucy Lantham (CUNY), “Displaced Knowledge: The Language of the Borders in Leonora Carrington’s Down Below” 15.50 - 16.10 Peter Davies (University of Edinburgh), “In the Land of the Perpetrators: Krystyna Żywulska’s Holocaust Memoir between Polish, English and German” 16.10 - 16.30 Jana Buresova (Inst. of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London),”Not With Diamonds in Their Shoes” 16.30-17.00 Discussion 17.00 - 17.30 Coffee breaks, Glasgow Women’s Library 17.30 - 18.30 Civic Reception, Glasgow City Chambers, George Square, Glasgow G2 1DU 19.00 Conference Dinner 30 March 9.30-10.00 Coffee, tea and biscuits, Glasgow Women’s Library Session E Migration and Social Issues (Chair: Mariangela Palladino) 10.00-10-20 Kim Fordham (University of Alberta), “Who is Afraid of a Child? Fear of Difference and its Consequences in Selected Works of Mariella Mehr” 10.20-10.40 Sophie Schram University of Trier), “The World and the Neighbourhood. Migrant Women’s Narratives in Luxembourg” 10.40-11.00 Kate Smith (University of Huddersfield), “Listening to Women Refugees” 11.00-11.30 Discussion 11.30-12.00 Coffee Breaks, Glasgow Women’s Library 12.00-13.00 COST and Glasgow Women’s Library Presentation 13.00-14.30 Lunch Break, Stirling Room, The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN Session F Linguistic Appropriation and Creative Displacement (Chair: Laura Martin) 14.30-14.50 Çimen Günay-Erkol and Senem Timuroğlu (University of Ozyegin), “Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Mother Complex: Detachment from the Mother, Mother Tongue and Motherland” 14.50-15.10 Áine McMurtry (Durham University), “ ‘Into the Spree flows the Nile’: The Representation of Contemporary Berlin in German-Language Short Prose” 15.10-15.30 Discussion 15.30-17.00 Round Table and Concluding Remarks (Chair: Mariangela Palladino) End of Conference ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join italian-studies YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave italian-studies to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/italian-studies.html