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Migration and Diaspora Cultural Studies Network (MDCSN)

Conferences

Exile and Migration

One-Day Postgraduate Conference
Thursday, 11th June 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS [pdf]

We invite papers from postgraduates working in all disciplines on any aspect of exile and/or migration. Submissions which engage theoretical or empirical approaches, or diverse methodologies, are welcome. We encourage papers employing interdisciplinary frameworks.

Topics might include, but are by no means restricted to:

Papers should be up to 20 minutes long. Abstracts of 200-250 words should be submitted to  Lucy.Stone@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk by 15th May 2009.

The conference is generously supported by SAGE and the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, University of Manchester.

Gender and Borders/Boundaries

Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference
at the University of Manchester
June 27, 2008

In association with:

Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies (University of Leeds), Migration and Diaspora Cultural Studies Network, Department of Theology and Religious Studies (University of Leeds), and Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies (University of Manchester).

Keynote speaker: Claudia Aradau, Lecturer in Politics and International Studies at the Open University/Milton Keynes

This one day postgraduate conference seeks to examine issues of gender and borders/boundaries across a range of critical perspectives. We want to encourage innovative and interdisciplinary dialogues and welcome postgraduate students from a variety of disciplines, such as anthropology, cultural studies, gender studies, religion, sociology, psychology, politics, geography and social work.

Borders/boundaries are sites for exclusion, control and dominance, but they are also sites for exchange, transgression and creativity. With this postgraduate conference we want to focus on gender and the ways in which it interacts with the forces and powers of national borders and/or the boundaries of the body. We invite papers that focus on the dynamics between gender and borders/boundaries both from ethnographic and theoretical perspectives.

Click here for more information, including the conference programme and arrival and accommodation advice.

Organisers:

Amy M. Russell, Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, Department of Theology and Religious Studies University of Leeds

Susanne Hofmann, Centre for Latin American Cultural Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese University of Manchester

'Creolising Europe'

A conference of the Migration and Diaspora Cultural Studies Network
University of Manchester, UK
6-8 September 2007

The international conference 'Creolising Europe' invites contributions which seek critical understandings of postcolonial, creolised and multicultural Europe. The term creolisation, derived from linguistics, now also refers to the intermingling and mixing of two or several formerly discrete traditions or cultures. Although often criticised for essentialising cultures, (as if the merging traditions were "pure" at the outset), the concept helps make sense of a great number of contemporary cultural processes, characterised by movement, change and shifting boundaries.

We would welcome papers dealing with the following aspects and topics of migration and diaspora:

(a) critical readings of notions like 'refugee', 'minor' literature, 'postcoloniality', 'globalisation', 'race', 'mestizaje', 'lusotropicalism', 'transculturation' and 'creolisation';
(b) the interfaces between cultural, economic and political dimensions of mobile spaces focusing on culture and transnational migrations in Europe, local diasporic communities, border zones and language contact;
(c) the migration and diaspora of ideas, sounds and images, including film, photography, music, and belief;
(d) 'queer diasporas' focusing on textuality, representation, and the translation of desires.
(e) how have experiences of migration and diaspora shaped Europe in its history and how have these historical experiences been represented?

Keynote Speakers:

The Manchester Migration and Diaspora Cultural Studies Network (MDCSN) is funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. It is a collaborative framework for academic research into the cultural transformations brought about by the global movement of peoples, languages, objects, images, sounds, beliefs and ideas. The network embraces a wide range of disciplines, with a strong core in language-based disciplines, which gives the network a distinctive, internationally comparative dimension, and illuminates the interpenetration of cultures from within.

This conference  aims to make a theoretical and conceptual contribution to understanding the impact of transnationalism on culture, focusing on productive and creative encounters which challenge 'national narratives' through the formation of interstitial spaces.

Abstracts are invited, from any discipline, on topics including:

First deadline for receipt of abstracts: 15 January 2007
Abstracts of up to 250 words should provide:

Abstracts to be sent electronically to:

e.gutierrez@manchester.ac.uk    and    margaret.littler@manchester.ac.uk

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