Dear colleagues,

With generous support from the Political Studies Association of the UK,
the Specialist Group on Ethnic Politics and the Faculty of Humanities
and Social Sciences at the University of Bath and the European Research
Institute, the Department of European Studies at the University of Bath
is hosting a four-day international conference on forced migration from
12 to 15 September 2002. Please find below the final programme for your
own perusal and to share with colleagues that you think might find our
panels and plenaries interesting.

Logistical information are available on our website at
http://www.bath.ac.uk/~mlssaw/fm_conference/. You can also email the
conference organisers at [log in to unmask] with specific queries.

On all four days we will have on-the-spot registration facilities. Fees
are £15/10 for Thursday or Sunday and £30/25 for Friday or Saturday,
which will include tea and coffee in the morning and afternoon (every
day) and lunch (Friday and Saturday only). Accommodation can be arranged
on campus (£35 per night), but should be pre-booked.

There will be an exhibition from several publishers and advocacy
organisations in the field. Feel free to bring things of your own that
you want to draw other delegates' attention to (books, offprints, etc.).
Publishers that will be personally present include Oxford University
Press, Berghahn Books and Anthem Press. A number of others have sent us
a wealth of material for free distribution -- take a look at our
exhibitors' page at the conference website
(http://www.bath.ac.uk/~mlssaw/fm_conference/exhibitors.htm).

I look forward to welcoming you next week at the conference.

Best wishes,
Stefan
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FORCED MIGRATION: CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES AND RESPONSES
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Thursday, 12 September 2002, 2.00-3.30

Opening Plenary
Room: 3E 2.1
Chair: Stefan Wolff, University of Bath

Welcome Address
Dennis Tate
Chair, Department of European Studies, University of Bath

Achieving a Comprehensive and Proactive Refugee Policy
Arthur C. Helton, Council on Foreign Relations, New York

3.30-4.00 Afternoon Tea

Session I
Thursday, 12 September 2002, 4.00-5.30

Forced Migration and Displacement: Historical Perspectives
Room: 3E 2.1
Chair: David Curp, Ohio University

Papers
Ben Lieberman, Fitchburg State College
Ethnic Cleansing before Ethnic Cleansing: Representing Forced Migration
in Nineteenth Century Europe and Western Asia

Nergis Canefe, University of Istanbul
Turkish Nationalism and the 'Lost' Minorities: Is There a Lesson to be
Learned from the 1922-23 Forced Population Exchanges?

Forced Migration in Africa: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Room: 3E 3.11
Chair: Karl Cordell, University of Plymouth

Papers
Norman Etherington, University of Western Australia
'Great Treks': The Transformation of Southern Africa, 1815-1854

Andrea Behrends, Max Planck Institute for Ethnology
Competing for Assistance - Humanitarian Intervention, Development Aid
and Local Response in Dar Masalit (Chad)

Forced Migration in Central and Eastern Europe: The Role of the Allies
after World War II
Room: 3E 4.17
Chair: Rainer Schulze, University of Essex

Papers
Matthew Frank, St Antony's College Oxford
Britain and the Transfer of the Germans from East Central Europe,
1941-47

Anne Klein, Free University of Berlin
Responsibilities of the Bystanders - Individual, Collective and
Governmental Reactions in the United States to Forced Migrations in
Europe, 1938-1943

Session II
Friday, 13 September 2002, 9.00-10.30

Forced Migration and Displacement in the Balkans and Their Consequences
Room: 3E 2.1
Chair: Norman Etherington, University of Western Australia

Papers
Cigdem Balim, University of Manchester
Homelands, Real and Imaginary

Milena Davidovic, University of Belgrade
Yugoslavia and Forced Migration since 1991: Where Are the Displaced
People Today?

Forced Migration and State-building
Room: 3E 3.11
Chair: Pavel Polian, Russian Academy of Sciences

Papers
David Curp, Ohio University
Police State Patriotism? Midwestern Poland's Nationalist Revolution and
the Dialectics of Nation-State Building, 1944-1947

Klejda Mulaj, London School of Economics
The Legacy of Ethnic Cleansing in the 20th Century Balkans

Irina Novikova, University of Latvia
Fighting the Enemy to Its Roots: Political Representations of
Deportation the Baltic Peoples in 1940 and Political Citizenship
Discourse in Latvia and Estonia of the 1990s

Writers and Intellectuals on Forced Migration and Displacement
Room: 3E 4.17
Chair: Ian Wallace, University of Bath

Papers
Aparajita Nanda, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India
Migration as Metaphor in Taslima Nasreen's Lajja and Sara Suleri's
Meatless Days

Line Alice Ytrehus, University of Bergen
Intellectuals in Exile: Reconsidering Identities

Maria E. Olaya, Oregon State University
Colombian Uprootedness: A Reading of internal Displacement in the
Narrative of Alvaro Mutis


10.30-11.00 Morning Coffee



Session III
Friday, 13 September 2002, 11.00-12.30

Roundtable Discussion/Plenary
Room: 3E 2.1
Chair: Cigdem Balim, University of Manchester

'A Most Monstrous Century': On the Causes, Consequences and Trends of
the 20th Century's Internal Strife' Amikam Nachmani, Bar-Ilan University
Respondents: TBA

Session IV - Plenary
Friday, 13 September 2002, 2.00-3.30

Plenary
Room: 3E 2.1
Chair: Simona Talani, University of Bath

Forced Migration: Perspectives from the Field
Charles-Henri Bazoche, Former Head of Delegation, UNHCR

3.30-4.00 Afternoon Tea

Session V
Friday, 13 September 2002, 4.00-5.30

Perspectives on Forced Migration in the Middle East
Room: 3E 2.1
Chair: Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Trinity College Cambridge

Papers
Roderick H. Watt, University of Glasgow
'Ich triumphiere sozusagen': The Publication History of Victor
Klemperer's 'Zion-Kapitel' in LTI (1947-1957)

Amikam Nachmani, Bar-Ilan University
The Use of Symbols, Rituals, and Myths in National Struggles: Two
Palestinian Uprisings Compared

Ferial Ghazoul, American University Cairo
Palestinians Writing Refuge and Exile

De-Constructing and Re-Constructing National Identity in the Context of
Forced Migration: The German Experience
Room: 3E 3.11
Chair: Ian Connor, University of Ulster

Papers
Rob Baum, Monash University
Deconstructing of National Identity under the Third Reich: The
Potentiation of Forced Emigration in Pre-World War II Germany

Pascal Maeder, York University
Constructing Divergent Memories: Ethnic German Expellees in Canada,
1945-1970

Jorunn Sem Fure, University of Bergen
'Gutes Zuhause - aber keine Heimat':The Expulsion of Germans from
Provinces East of the Oder-Neisse Line as Reflected in Collective Memory

Session VI
Saturday, 14 September 2002, 9.00-10.30

Forced Migration and Displacement in Soviet and Post-Soviet Spaces (I)
Room: 3E 2.1
Chair: Peter Gatrell, University of Manchester

Papers
Pavel Polian, Russian Academy of Sciences
The Deportation Policy of the Soviet Union

Julija Sukys, Northwestern University
Writings from Siberia: Soviet Deportee Correspondence from the 1950s and
1960s

Otto Pohl, London School of Economics
Comparative Exile Experiences of the Soviet Germans and the Chechens and
Ingush

Fact and Fiction - Ethnic German Expellees and Their Integration in the
Federal Republic
Room: 3E 3.11
Chair: Karl Cordell, University of Plymouth

Papers
Ian Connor, University of Ulster
Refugees and Political Parties in Schleswig Holstein, 1945-1953

Rainer Schulze, University of Essex
Between 'Heimat' and 'Zuhause': Grass, Chwin and the Problems of
Remembrance

Stefan Wolff, University of Bath
The Burden of History: German-Polish and German-Czech Relations in the
Context of EU Enlargement

Preserving Identites through Social and Cultural Practice (I)
Room: 3E 4.17
Chair: Katharina Eisch, Frauenau

Papers
Monika Salzbrunn, EHESS, Paris
Migrants from West Africa and Their Networks: Comparing Political and
Religious Practices in France and Germany

Derren H. Joseph, University of Aberdeen
Social Exclusion of Afro-Trinidadians: Disrupted History and
Emancipation Through Art

Nick Baron, University of Manchester
Barriers of Silence: Itinerant Perspectives on Self and Social Identity

10.30-11.00 Morning Coffee


Session VII
Saturday, 14 September 2002, 11.00-12.30

Multimedia Presentation/Plenary
Room: 3E 2.1
Chair: Simona Talani, University of Bath

Forced Migration Online - A World of Information on Human Displacement
Marilyn Deegan, Queen Elisabeth House, Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford

Session VIII
Saturday, 14 September 2002, 2.00-3.30

Plenary
Room: 3E 2.1
Chair: Kristin Henrard, University of Groningen

Causes and Consequences of Forced Migration: Perspectives from
International Law Geoffrey Gilbert, University of Essex

3.30-4.00 Afternoon Tea

Session IX
Saturday, 14 September 2002, 4.00-5.30

Forced Migration and Displacement in Soviet and Post-Soviet Spaces (II)
Room: 3E 2.1
Chair: Julija Sukys, Northwestern University

Papers
Hovann Simonian, University of Southern California
Shahumian and Gardmank: With No Hope of Return

Valentina Yuchenkova, American University in Kyrgyzstan
Forced Migration of the Russian-speaking People from Kyrgyzstan in the
1990s

Lothar Mertens, Ruhr University Bochum
The Migration of Jews from the USSR/GUS to Germany, USA and Israel.
Social and Regional Differences

Czech and German Representations of 'Odsun'
Room: 3E 3.11
Chair: Stefan Wolff, University of Bath

Papers
Gisela Kaben, University of Munich
'Odsun' or 'Vertreibung'? The Transfer of the Sudeten Germans from
Czechoslovakia

Christiane Brenner, Collegium Carolinum, Munich
'Letters to a Dead Friend': Literary Representations of the Expulsion of
the Germans from Czechoslovakia

Rudolf Pueschel, Independent Author and Publisher
Recognition: A Requirement for Reconciliation

Preserving Identites through Social and Cultural Practice (II)
Room: 3E 4.17
Chair: Jorunn Sem Fure, University of Bergen

Papers
Irina Novikova, University of Latvia
Amber and Songs in the Whirlwind: Women's Memory Narratives of Forced
Migration

Dennis Tate, University of Bath
'Heimatverbot' and Fractured Identity: Franz Fuehmann - a 'Sudeten
German' Author in the German Democratic Republic

Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Trinity College Cambridge
The Poetics of Dispossession: Mourning Forced Migration and Cultural
Loss in Contemporary South Asia

8.00-10.00 Conference Dinner
Claverton Rooms, University of Bath
After Dinner Speaker:
Alan Kuperman, Johns Hopkins University - Bologna Center
The Quick and the Dead: Constraints on Strategic Airlift in Humanitarian
Intervention

Session X
Sunday, 15 September 2002, 9.00-10.30

Reconstructing Identities after Forced Migration and Displacement
Room: 3E 3.11
Chair: Dennis Tate, University of Bath

Papers
Beate Andrees, Free University of Berlin
Material Structures and Political Representations of Diasporic Spaces. A
Case Study of the Kosovar-Albanians

Katharina Eisch, Frauenau
Memory and Indentity in Nowhereland. An Ethnographic Study of
Non-expelled Germans in the Czech-German Borderlands

Laura Gheorghiu, Western University, Timisoara
Romania with and without Her Germans

Responses to Forced Migration in Receiving States
Room: 3E 4.17
Chair: Jacqueline Andall, University of Bath

Papers
Helen Schwenken, University of Kassel
Political Self-organisation among Forced Migrants in the European Union

Michael Leach, Deakin University, Australia
Representations of Race and Gender in the Asylum-Seeker 'Crisis' in
Australia 2001-2

Mark Goodman, York University
Migrations under Pressure: Contemporary Border-crossing by Undocumented
Mexican Workers and the 'Great Migration' of African Americans to the
North

10.30-11.00 Morning Coffee

Closing Session
Sunday, 15 September 2002, 11.00-12.30

Roundtable
Room: 3E 2.1
Chair: Ian Wallace

Responding to Forced Migration: Challenges for Academic and Policy
Communities Charles-Henri Bazoche, Ferial Ghazoul, Arthur Helton

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