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WELCOME

Transnationalmobilityandmigrationarekeyforcesofsocialandculturaltransformation

in the contemporary world. While some aspects of this transformation are welcome

othersarechargedwithfear.Suchtensionsandambivalencesareatthecentreofmany

ofthepapersthatwillbepresentedattheconferenceWelcomingStrangers.Therangeof

disciplinesandthemescoveredatthisinternationalpostgraduateconferencereflectsthe

significance and topicality of the theme that we seek to explore together. With

accelerated inter- and intra-nationalmobility, theconceptsof place anddisplacement,

and their impact on individual and collective identities, have received unprecedented

scholarlyattentionindisciplinesasdiverseasGeography,Politics,Music,FilmandMedia

Studies,English,Postcolonial Studies andMigrationandDiasporaStudies.Thegrowing

importance of multi-locality, transnational (and 'post-national') communities,

cosmopolitanismandvariousformsofflexiblecitizenshipcallbinarismswhichposit‘the

stranger’as‘theOther’oftheindigenouscommunity,asthe‘guest’whoiswelcomedby

thehegemonichostsociety,intoquestion.Contestsaroundnotionsofethnicessentialism

and cultural purity have given way to a widespread acceptance of diversity and the

celebrationofhybridity. Inmusic, literature,and film,the contributionsofartistswith

transnationallymobileand/orethnicminoritybackgroundstotheaesthetictraditionsof

westernhegemonicculturalproductionshaveresultedininnovativecreativesynergiesof

thelocalandtheglobalandhaveenjoyedconsiderablecross-overappeal.Ontheother

hand,many ‘strangers’havenot beenwelcomed,theirvoiceshavebeensilenced, and

their artistic expressions have been marginalized. The exponential growth ininformational technologies and themobilityof global capital,whichonce promised to

fulfillMcLuhan’s vision ofaglobal village,has beenaccompaniedbymanyunforeseen

challenges.Restrictedmobilityoflabour,asylumlegislation,andnewsecuritychallenges

poseathreattotheidealofglobalidentitiesandacosmopolitansociety.

TheConferenceCommitteewouldliketothanktheHumanitiesandArtsResearchCentre

atRoyalHollowayforitssupportoftheconferenceandextendaverywarmwelcometo

theconferencedelegates.

JohnAbraham(DepartmentofPoliticsandInternationalRelations)

RichardBater(DepartmentofGeography)

Prof.DanielaBerghahn(DepartmentofMediaArts,HARCFellow20111-12‘Welcoming

Strangers’)

LiaDeromedi(DepartmentofEnglish)

StephanieVos(DepartmentofMusic)

DenizGünesYardimci(DepartmentofMediaArts)



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CONFERENCEPROGRAMME

9:30am Registration Moore1Building1Foyer

0:00am KeynoteMX001(Lecture1Theatre),1

Moore1Annexe1Professor1Robin1Cohen1(University1of1Oxford)

Before&the&Welcoming:&The&Origins&of&Difference,&the&Beginnings&of&

Convergence

Chair:1Professor1Daniela1Berghahn

:00am Panel*1a:*Transnationalisms,*ethnicities,*identitiesMX001(Lecture1Theatre),1

Moore1Annexe

Chair:1Deniz1Yardimci

Ruth1Judge1(University1College1London)

&From&a&Hackney&council&estate&to&a&Kenyan&orphanage:&transnational&

encounters&and&cosmopolitan&youth&identities?

Danlu1Wang1(Institute1of1Education,1University1of1London)

Imagining&the&Homeland:&Cultural&Identity&of&British&Chinese&teenagers&in&and&

around&London

Oliver1Dew1(Birkbeck,1University1of1London)

Making&ethnicity&tangible&in&Japanese&gangster&films

Panel*1b:*Performing*and*materialising*diasporasABG024,1Arts1Building1

Ground1Floor

Chair:1Richard1Bater

André1Nóvoa1(Royal1Holloway,1University1of1London)

Like&lovers&in&suits&of&armour':&a&mobile&ethnography&of&Portuguese&MEPs

Sin1Yee1Koh1(London1School1of1Economics)

Estranging&selves&and&the&perpetuation&of&diasporic&consciousness:&second&generation&ChineseMalaysians

Priya1Vadi1(Royal1Holloway,1University1of1London)

Identity&negotiation&and&the&material&cultures&of&the&Iranian&diaspora&in&London&

and&Vancouver

2:30pm Lunch1provided Moore1Building1Foyer

:5pm KeynoteMX001(Lecture1Theatre),1

Moore1Annexe

Professor1Stephanie1Hemelryk1Donald1(RMIT1University/University1of1Leeds)

The&Dorothy&Complex:&Children&and&Migration&in&World&Cinema

Chair:1Professor1Daniela1Berghahn

2:5pm Panel*2a:*Environments*of*diasporaMX001(Lecture1Theatre),1

Moore1Annexe

Chair:1Priya1Vadi

Bogumil1Terminski1(Graduate1Institute1Geneva/University1of1Warsaw)

Environmentallyinduced&migrations:&theoretical&frameworks,&politics&and&law

Pei`Sze1Chow1(University1College1London)

Constructing&post/trans/national&spaces&through&architecture&in&film:&the&case&

of&Malmo,&Sweden

Izabela1Ilowska1(University1of1Glasgow)

The&space&of&the&East&End&in&Monica&Ali's&Brick1Lane



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2:15pm Panel&2b:&Perspectives&from&philosophy MBS016,-Moore-Building

Chair:-Deniz-Yardimci

Jan-Völkel-(University-of-Auckland)

Beyond'Discourse:'Transforming'the'discourse'on'European'migration'through'

dissensus'in'works'of'art

Filippo-Menozzi-(University-of-Kent)

Hospitality/Incorporation:'between'psychoanalysis'and'philosophy

Stephan-Hilpert-(University-of-Cambridge)

Mutual'Intrusions:'Ulrich'Seidls-Import/Export'through'JeanLuc'Nancy

3:45pm Refreshment-break Moore-Building-Foyer

4:00pm Panel&3a:&Constructions&of&the&Other:&contemporary&writersMX001-(Lecture-Theatre),-

Moore-Annexe

Chair:-Lia-Deromedi

Sara-Marzagora-(SOAS,-University-of-London)

Looking'back'to'the'Horn'of'Rome:'the'literary'activism'of'Eritrean,'Somali'and'Ethiopian'writers'in'multicultural'Italy

Cynthia-Lytle-(Universitat-de-Barcelona)

Making'them'strange:'representations'of'the'Other'in'Zoe'Wicombs'The-one-

that-got-away

Lizzie-Richardson-(Durham-University)

Writing'the'margins'or'the'mainstream:'Figuring'the'stranger'in'artistic'

practice

Panel&3b:&Trans<positions:&displacing&music&and&musicians MBS016,-Moore-Building

Chair:-Ester-Lebedinksi

Alberto-Hernández-Mateos-(University-of-Salamanca)

A'stranger'on'both'sides:'Antonio'Eximeno'and'the'ItalianSpanish'musical'

thought

Stephanie-Vos-(Royal-Holloway,-University-of-London)

Establishing'(musical)'relationships:'South'African'exile'and'the'Black'Atlantic'

diaspora

Alan-Ashton\Smith-(London-Consortium)

Multi-Kontra-Culti:'Gypsy'Punk'Multiculturalism

Panel&3c:&The&world&of&filmABG024,-Arts-Building-

Ground-Floor

Chair:-Professor-Daniela-Berghahn

Natalia-Poljakowa-(Royal-Holloway,-University-of-London)

From'our'correspondent'in'Berlin:'the'German'impact'on'Soviet'filmculture'in'

the'1920sRachel-Kapelke\Dale-(University-College-London)

From'strangers'to'stars,'stars'to'strangers:'Greta'Garbo'and'Marlene'Dietrich'

in'early'1930s'Hollywood

Kamil-Zapasnik-(Birkbeck,-University-of-London)

Escaping'otherness?'Identities'at'the'margins'in'Claire'Denis -J'ai-pas-sommeil/I-

can't-sleep

5:30pm Closing-remarks MX001-(Lecture-Theatre),-

Moore-Annexe

6:30pm All-are-invited-to-join-us-for-an-informal-(optional)-dinner-at-Bar-163,-Egham:-

163-High-Street,-Egham,-TW20-9HP--(http://www.bar163.com/)





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research on creolization was funded by an Economic and Social Research Council

ProfessorialFellowship(2006–9).

PANEL1a:Transnationalisms,ethnicities,identities

RuthJudge(UniversityCollegeLondon)

FromaHackneycouncilestatetoaKenyanorphanage:transnationalencountersand

cosmopolitanyouthidentities?

Abstract

In the past, much scholarship on transnational encounters has been concerned with

either relations ofdominationbetween ‘thewestand the rest’, orthe struggles facing

forcedmigrants.However,workarounddiasporasandcosmopolitanismhasopenedthewayformorenuancedanalyses.Thispaperattemptstofurthersomeoftheseanalyses

throughlookingatnewinternationalyouthvolunteeringinitiatives.Theseinitiativestake

youthfrommultiethnic,low-income,urbanbackgroundsintheUKonvolunteeringtrips

to‘developing’countries.Thispaperwillexplorehowsuchtransnationalencountersbring

togethertwogroupsfrequentlyportrayedas‘marginalised’,complicatingbinariesaround

‘self’ and ‘other’, dominance and victimhood. It will also raise questions about how

embodiedandemotionaldimensionsofencounterswith‘other’peopleandplacesrelate

toyoungpeople’sidentityconstruction,andthepossibilityof‘cosmopolitan’identitiesin

both local and global spheres. Such transnational encounters push us to engage withideas about contact, identity and prejudice: Do young people’s embodied encounters

with ‘others’destabilise existingclass andethnic identities?What insightsmight these

encounters bring to debates about ‘community cohesion’, hybridity and cosmopolitan

identities?ThispaperisbasedontheearlystagesofmyPhDresearchandwilldrawona

reviewofliterature,complementedbysomepreliminaryprimarydata.

Keywords:Identity,youth,cosmopolitanism,transnationalencounters

Selectedbibliography

Fortier,A-M. (2008).Multicultural horizons: Diversityand the limits of the civil nation,

London:Routledge.

Keith,M. (2005). After the Cosmopolitan?Multicultural cities and the future of racism,

London:Routledge.

Nayak A. (2003). Race, Place and Globalization : YouthCultures in a ChangingWorld,

Oxford:Berg.



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Thompson,R.andTaylor,R.(2005).‘Betweencosmopolitanismandthelocals:mobilityas

aresourceinthetransitiontoadulthood’,Young:NordicJournalofYouthResearch,13(4),

327–342.

Biographicalnote

RuthJudgeisinthefirstyearofstudyingforaPhDintheDepartmentofGeography,UCL.

In2009shegraduatedfromanMScinForcedMigrationfromtheUniversityofOxford.

Her dissertation (published asRefugee Studies CentreWorking Paper 60) focussedon

how youngmale asylum seekers and refugees in the UK are situated in a precarious

positionatthe intersectionofseveralpowerfuldiscursivefieldsaroundage,genderand

victimhood. Her undergraduate dissertation (UCL Geography) focussed on Cambodian

nationalidentityinthepost-conflictcontext.

DanluWang(InstituteofEducation,UniversityofLondon)

ImaginingtheHomeland:CulturalIdentityofBritishChineseteenagersinandaround

London

Abstract

The emergence of the People’s Republic of China as an economic superpower has

become apopular topic inmassmediaand scholarshiparound theworld.Meanwhile,

researchersbecameinterestedinthesoaringratesofanewwaveofChinesemigration

since 1980s (Luk, 2008). However, there are not as many studies focused on British

Chinese(BC)community.Forschool-agedBC,themajorresearchthemehasbeentheiroutstandingacademicachievementinschools(Francis&Archer,2005a,2005b).Veryfew

studieshaveexploredtheculturalidentitiesofschool-agedBC,whoseparentsbelongto

thenewimmigrationwave.

ThisstudyaimstoprovideafullerpictureofeverydaylivesofBCteenagersinand

aroundLondon.ItinvestigatestheidentitiesofBCteenagersasChinesedescendants,as

students,aschildrenandasyoungpeople inametropolitan city.Thisstudyemploysa

mixed-method of quantitative and qualitative research. The results will be generated

frommyoneandhalfyearparticipantobservationinaChineseweekendschoolinnorth

London. During which time, I have also completed a questionnaire survey (108questionnaires), 35 in-depth interviews, 4 focus-group discussions and a photographic

workshopinfourweekendChineseschoolsinnorth,south,eastandwestLondon.This

studywill contribute knowledge in the discussion of ‘hybrid cultural identities’ in the

globalizationcontext.ItwillalsoofferacomprehensivedepictionofBCcommunityand

BCteenagersinandaroundLondon.

Keywords: British Chinese teenagers, cultural identity, imagination of homeland,

transnationalism.



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Luk,W.E.(2008).ChinatowninBritain:DiffusionsandConcentrationsoftheBritishNew

WaveChineseimmigration.Youngstown,NewYork:CambriaPress.

Francis,B.,&Archer,L.(2005a).British-Chinesepupilsandparentsconstructionsofthe

valueofeducation.BritishEducationalResearchJournal,31(1),89-108.

Francis, B.,& Archer, L. (2005b). Theynever go off the rails like other ethnic groups:

teachers constructions of British Chinese pupils gender identities and approaches to

learning.BritishJournalofSociologyofEducation,26(2),165-182.

Morley,D.(2000).HomeTerritories:Media,MobilityandIdentity .London:Routledge.

Biographicalnote

DanluWangiscurrentlyaPh.D.studentattheInstituteofEducation(IOE),Universityof

London.Her studyis supportedbytheCentenary Scholarshipat the IOE.Her graduate

degrees includeMSc inSocial Anthropology (LondonSchool ofEconomics and Political

Science,London,UK),MA inGlobal Communication (ChineseUniversity ofHongKong,

HongKong,China)andBAinJournalism(RenminUniversityofChina,Beijing,China).

ShewasborninChinaandcompletedherschoolinganddegreeeducationthere.

ShehasbeenstudyingandlivinginLondonfor5years.Herresearchinterestslieinthe

areaofMediastudies,Culturestudies,MigrationandDiasporastudies.

OliverDew(Birkbeck,UniversityofLondon)

MakingethnicitytangibleinJapanesegangsterfilms

Abstract

Diasporicethnicityisdoublyinscribedinmanygenresofgangsterfilmaroundtheworld:

evenwhenthe charactersarenot identifiedasethnicothers, the rituals,symbols, and

languageofthegangsterorganisationcreateafictivekinshipandconsanguinitythatcan

itself, problematically, be read as ‘ethnic’ (see Lo; Gormley; Larke-Walsh). This paper

looksathow1960sand‘70sJapaneseyakuzafilms,featuringdiasporicKorean-in-Japangangsters, have been read, contested, and rewritten within Korean-in-Japan reception

contexts. In the 1970s this diasporic reading positionwas largely oral and subcultural,

only rarely leaving written traces. After 1990 however this reading practice became

somewhatinstitutionalisedthroughtheactivitiesoffilmfestivalsthatcuratedacounter---

canonaroundthethemeoftherepresentationofethnicothers,inspiteofthefactthat

manyoftheseyakuzafilmsonlysignedKoreannessinanobliqueandinnuendo---laden

way(effectivelysigninganethnictaboo).Thisreadingpracticeaddressedthisproblemby

rejectingthedemandthatethnicitybeexplicitlysignedandmade‘legible’,andinstead

bodyingforthanethnicitythatis‘tangible’and‘more-than-signifying’.Whatimplications

mightthisaffectivereadinghaveforourunderstandingoftheburdenofrepresentation,



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thepersistenceofstereotyping,and(post-)essentialistarticulationsofethnicity?

Keywords:representationaffectgangsterfilmKoreansinJapan


Gormley,Paul.2005.TheNew-BrutalityFilm:RaceandAffectinContemporaryHollywood

Cinema(Bristol:Intellect).

Larke-Walsh, George. 2010. Screening the Mafia: Masculinity, Ethnicity and Mobsters

FromtheGodfathertotheSopranos(JeffersonN.C.:McFarland&Co.).

Lo,Kwai-Cheung.2007.‘ABorderlineCase:EthnicPoliticsandGangsterFilmsinPost---

1997HongKong’,PostcolonialStudies,10:4,pp.431---446.

Yang,In-sil.2002.‘“Yakuzaeiga”niokeru“zainichi”kan[Theappearanceof“Zainichi”in“yakuzafilms”]’,RitsumeikanReviewofIndustrialSociety,38:2,pp.113-131.

Biographicalnote

IamanAssociateLecturerandPhDcandidateintheDepartmentofMediaandCultural

StudiesatBirkbeckCollege.Thispaperisadaptedfromachapterofmythesis,which

looksatimagesofdiasporicKoreansinJapan(ZainichiKoreans)infilmandvideofromthe

1970sonwards.Iamparticularlyinterestedinhowaffectivestructuresarecentraltothe

practicesofreading,curating,andproducing“Zainichicinema.”Theresearchforthis

thesiswaspartlyconductedatMeijiGakuinUniversityinTokyo,whereIwasaJapanSocietyforthePromotionofSciencevisitingresearchfellowin2008-9.

PANEL1b:Performingandmaterialisingdiasporas

AndréNóvoa(RoyalHolloway,UniversityofLondon)

“Likeloversinsuitsofarmour”:AmobileethnographyofPortugueseMEPs

Abstract

Thispaperseekstoaddressagapindiasporastudies,offeringanin-depthethnographyof

travellingelites.Overthelastfewyears,questionsofmobilityandpeopleonthemove

have been shifting away from a marginal position to the core of scholarly debate.

However, despite the existence of a significant amount of research on the lives of

migrants,refugeesandothers,whenitcomestothestudyofindividualshigh-upinterms

ofsocialclassmostoftheworkisbasedonspeculativetheory.Thispapercountersthis

tendencyandprovidesafirst-handanalysisofitinerantpoliticians.Bymeansofaseriesof

threetravelswithPortugueseMembersoftheEuropeanParliament,Iexamineprocesses

of dwelling-on-the-move and professional encapsulation in situ. Bearing in mind that



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nomadicelitesarenormallythoughtofasentitiesthatbothliterallyandmetaphorically

fly above local cultures, I posit that theseprocesses of encapsulation holdmore than

meets the eye and have to do more with the physiognomy of theMEPs professional

spacesthanwithpersonalworldviews.

Keywords:Mobileethnography;elite-travelling;encapsulation;transnationalcultures.


Castells,Manuel.1996.Theriseofthenetworksociety .Cambridge:Blackwell.

De Cauter, Lieven. 2004. The capsular civilization: on the city in the age of fear.

Rotterdam:NAiPublishers.

Graham,Stephen,&SimonMarvin.2001.Splinteringurbanismnetworkedinfrastructures,

technologicalmobilitiesandtheurbancondition.London,NewYork:Routledge.

Rapport,Nigel,&AndrewDawson.1998.Migrantsofidentity:perceptionsof‘home’ina

worldofmovement.Oxford:BergPublishers.

Urry,John.2007.Mobilities.Cambridge:Polity.

Biographicalnote

Originally trained as a historian (graduation), I completed my Masters in Social and

CulturalAnthropologyattheInstituteforSocialSciences(UniversityofLisbon)in2009.Since2010,IhavebeenworkingonmyPhDinCulturalGeographyatRoyalHolloway,

UniversityofLondon,underthesupervisionofProfessorTimCresswell.Mymaininterests

revolvearoundissuesofmobilityandcosmopolitanism.

SinYeeKoh(LondonSchoolofEconomicsandPoliticalScience)

EstrangingSelvesandthePerpetuationofDiasporicConsciousness:SecondGeneration

Chinese-MalaysianCitizen-DiasporasinSingapore

Abstract

Ethnic-basedcitizenshipandaffirmativeactionpoliciesinMalaysiahavecreatedaculture

of migration, particularly of non-Bumiputera (“sons of soil”) Chinese-Malaysians. The

typicalChinese-Malaysianemigranthasbeen“askilled,highlyeducatedmigrant”(Cartier,

2003:73) seeking better lifeopportunities,particularly in Singapore.AlthoughChinese-

Malaysianshavebeendescribedassecond-classcitizensinMalaysia,manycontinueto

holdontotheirMalaysiancitizenshipwhiletaking-uppermanentresident(PR)statusin

Singapore.Thisisalsoacommonstrategyamongsttheirsecondgeneration.

In this paper, I examine narratives of second-generation Chinese-Malaysians in

Singapore, focusing on their emotions and rationalisations of (citizenship) identity,



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belonging, home, and migration intentions. The research question is: Why do second

generationChinese-MalaysiansinSingaporeactivelytakeondiasporicconsciousness?I

makefourarguments.Firstly,theMalaysiancitizenshipisasymbolof identityandback-

upplanforfuturemigration.Secondly,structuralfactorsandexistingsocio-institutional

practices emphasise my respondents’ diasporic “unbelonging” to both Singapore and

Malaysia. Thirdly, while awareness of one’s estranged self does not conflict with the

necessitiesofeverydaylife,thisdoesnotremoveone’scontinualnegotiationsascitizen-

diasporascaught inbetweenMalaysiaandSingapore.Finally,citizenshipasidentityand

citizenshipasstrategyisintertwined,particularlyforsecondgenerationcitizen-diasporas.

Keywords:cultureofmigration,secondgeneration,identityandbelonging,diasporic

citizenship


Barabantseva, E., & Sutherland, C. (2011). Diaspora and citizenship: Introduction.NationalismandEthnicPolitics17(1),1-13.

Christou,A.(2006).Decipheringdiaspora–translatingtransnationalism:Familydynamics,

identity constructions and the legacy of ‘home’ in second-generationGreek- American

returnmigration.Ethnic&RacialStudies,29(6),1040-1056.

Cohen,J.H.,&Sirkeci,I.(2011).Culturesofmigration:Theglobalnatureofcontemporary

mobilityAustin:UniversityofTexasPress.

Mavroudi, E. (2007). Diaspora as process: (De)constructing boundaries. Geography

Compass,1(3),467-479.

Biographicalnote

SinYeeKohisaPhDcandidateinHumanGeographyattheLondonSchoolofEconomics

andPoliticalScience(LSE).HerPhDthesisexaminescitizenshipandmigrationdecisionsof

tertiary-educatedMalaysian-bornprofessionalsinLondon,SingaporeandKualaLumpur.

Concurrently, she isMembership Secretary and OfficeManager for the Associationof

Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN); and Graduate Teaching Assistant for GY302 UrbanDevelopment:Politics,PolicyandPlanning.Withpriorprofessionalworkingexperiencein

architectureandurbandevelopmentinSingapore,herresearchinterestsareinmigration,

citizenship,urbanizationandsocialchangeinEastandSouth-eastAsia.



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PriyaVadi(RoyalHolloway,UniversityofLondon)

Identitynegotiationand thematerialculturesof the Iranian diaspora inLondon and

Vancouver

Abstract

Inthispresentation,IwilldiscussmyrecentlystartedPhDresearchondiasporicIranianwomen’sdresspractices.Theintentofthisresearchistoexaminetheroleofdressand

clothing textiles in the identity practices of diasporic Iranian / Persian women in

Vancouver and London. Drawing upon qualitative research, I will be exploring how

women relate to their Iranian, Canadian, and British identities through dress. I will

compare dress practices in the two cities so as better to grasp the role of local and

national contexts in shaping these relations. In addition, I will also be exploring the

articulationofIraniandiasporicdresswithlocalisedandtransnationaldevelopmentsin

Islamicfashions.

Insettingouttheagendasforthiswork,inthispresentationIwillarguethatdress

providesagroundedandmeaningfulwaytoexploreexperiencesofself-expressionand

communal engagement performed in relation to wider cultural expectations, moral

orders, and resources. More generally, I will show how the research engages

interdisciplinary debates on diasporic identities, more specifically the Iranian diaspora;

emergentbodiesofworkondressandnationalregulationsofmulticulturalism,especially

with regard to Muslim identities; and extends geographical interests in the fashion

industryanditsglobalgeographiestowardsaricherunderstandingofdiasporicstylesand

everydaypracticesofdress.

Keywords:Iranian;diaspora;identity;dress


BrewardC&GilbertD(eds)2006Fashion’sworldcities(Berg,Oxford)

Knott,K.&McLouglin,S.(eds)(2010)Diasporas:concepts,intersections,identities.

London:ZedBooks.

Spellman,K.(2004).Religionandnation:Iranianlocalandtransnationalnetworksin

Britain.BerghahnBooks.

Tarlo,E.(2010)VisiblyMuslim.Fashion,politics,faithOxford:Berg.

Biographicalnote

IamafirstyearPhDcandidateintheDepartmentofGeography.IcompletedmyMAin

Geography at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. My broad

researchinterestsfocusonidentitiesandculturalconsumption.



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KEYNOTE

ProfessorStephanieHemelrykDonald(RMITUniversity,MelbourneandLeverhulme

VisitingProfessorattheCentreforWorldCinema,UniversityofLeeds)

TheDorothyComplex:ChildrenandMigrationinWorldCinema

Abstract

The child incinema isapowerful fantasy figure,deployedtoembody and aestheticise

acceleratedmotion, sociopoliticaldisplacement,andontological transition,allofwhich

conditionsgenerateadultanxietyandfear.Whenthechildleaveshome,adultfearisboth

accentuatedandbroughttoanexquisitepeakofrenewalandpossibility.Whenthechild

migrates,thatdeparturesignalsnationalandtransationalimpactsandaffect.Thislecture

considerswaysinwhichDorothyfromTheWizardofOzisatemplateandatouchstone

fornarrativesofchildmigrationsandadultanxietysince1939.

Biographicalnote

ProfessorStephanieHemelrykDonaldiscurrentlyaLeverhulmeTrustVisitingProfessorat

the Centre forWorld Cinemas at the University of Leeds. Following a first degree in

ChineseattheUniversityofOxfordandaDPhilonChinesefilmatUniversityofSussex

(1997),sheemigratedtoAustralia,whereshehasworkedeversince.Herresearchcovers

film, themedia, and children’s experiences in the Asia-Pacific region,with aparticular

focus on visual culture. Previous positions held include Professor of Chinese Media

StudiesattheUniversityofSydney,andFoundationDeanofMediaandCommunicationat RMIT University, Melbourne. She has recently been awarded a prestigious Future

FellowshipbytheAustralianResearchCouncil,whichshewilltakeupattheUniversityof

NewSouthWalesinMay2012.

Recentscholarlyarticleshavebeenpublishedin Theory,CultureandSociety ,New

Formations,andMIA.HernumerousbooksincludegeneralinterestbookssuchasMedia

Theories and Approaches: A Global Perspective (with M. Balnaves and B. Shoesmith,

2009), Pocket China Atlas (with R.J.Benewick,2008), ThePenguinAtlas ofMediaand

Information(withM.BalnavesandJ.Donald,2001),TheStateofChinaAtlas(withR.J.

Benewick, 1999) and scholarly titles such as Tourism and the Branded City: Film andIdentityonthePacificRim(withJ.G.Gammack,2007),LittleFriends:Children’sFilmand

MediaCultureinNewChina (2005),PublicSecrets,PublicSpaces:CinemaandCivilityin

China (2000).Inaddition,ProfessorDonaldhasco-editedsixanthologies,includingthe

mostrecentvolumeYouth, SocietyandMobileMediainAsia(withT.AndersonandD.

Spry,2011).



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PANEL2a:Environmentsofdiaspora

BogumilTerminski(GraduateInstituteGeneva/UniversityofWarsaw)

EnvironmentallyInducedMigrations.TheoreticalFrameworks,PoliticsandLaw

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate environmentally-induced migration as an

increasingly important category of populationmovement that represents a newsetof

challenges to the international community and to public international law. For these

purposes,theworkanalysesboththephenomenonofenvironmentalmigrationitself,and

theproblemsofpeopleaffectedbyit.Apartfromtheoreticalconsiderations,thepresent

workalsoexamineswhichmainfactorsforcepeopletofleetheirhomes.Bothlong -termenvironmentalprocessesandnaturaldisastersareinvestigatedhere,anditisshownhow

theyentailsignificantimplicationsforthedynamicsofpopulationmobility. Thesocial consequencesof theenvironmental processesunder observationare

oneofthegreatestchallengestheinternationalcommunitywillfaceinthecomingyears.

Today, the effects of climate change seem obvious to many citizens of our planet.

Desertification,increasingsoilsalinity,wastefuldeforestation,andrisingsealevelsarejust

afewoftheissuesdiscussedbelowwhichaffecteverydaylifeforatleasttwohundred

millionpeopleworldwide.

The serious natural disasters observed in recent years are also not without

ramifications. Earthquakes (and the tsunamiwaves that frequently accompany them),

volcanic eruptions, and the effects ofhurricanes, cyclones, and tornadoes force a few

millionpeopleeachyeartorelocate.Watchingtelevisionreportsfromareasdevastated

bynaturaldisasters,we oftendo not take intoaccount themany subtleconsequences

affecting the local communities; demographic, social, economic, and health-related

effectsofmajornaturaldisasterscanbevisibleyearsaftertheimminentthreatisgone.

Environmentally inducedmigrationmovements constitute one of the dominant

human conditions for mobility within national borders. Environmentally-induced

migrationsofaninternationalcharacterstillremainasmallandlimitedphenomenon(in

statunascendi ).Instead,thisparticularcategoryofmigrationappearstobetakingplace

largelyinsidetheconfinesofagivenstate.Thisdidnotpreventtheissueofenvironmental

migrationsfrombecoming,recently,animportantlocusofinternationalcooperation.The

activity of international institutions is increasingly affected by issues which, for many

years, were within an exclusive competence of state authorities. Certain global

environmentalprocesses(suchasozonedepletionorrisingsea levelscausedbymelting

glaciers)forcetheinternationalcommunitytot akecommonandcoordinatedactions.

Animportantprerequisiteforsuchactivityseemstobethemodernfocusonthe

development of international human rights protection. The situation of many

communitieslivingwithinnationalborders(variousminoritygr oups,indigenouspeoples,

internallydisplacedpersons,andevenmigrantworkers)hasbecomeagrowingconcernof

the international community. Regarded until recently as impinging on the undisputed



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sovereignty of thestate, conservationandaidefforts(fromhumanitarianassistanceto

human rights interventions) are now practices that are generally accepted and widely

usedbymanyinternationalinstitutions.

Thebeginningsofaidonbehalfofinternallydisplacedpersonsbytheinternational

community(includingenvironmentally-inducedmigrants)occurredintheearly1990s.The

firstdocumentinthisregardwasGuidingPrinciplesonInternalDisplacement ,adoptedin

1998. The document was not binding; rather, it was a summary of the postulated

frameworkofrulesonthehumanitarianaspectsofthetreatmentofinternallydisplaced

persons.ThefirstbindingdocumentonassistinginternalmigrantswastheConventionof

Kampala(2009),establishedwithintheAfricanUnion.Thedocument,adoptedbytheUN,

did not distinguish any specific categories of forced migrants from the generally

understoodgroupof internallydisplacedpersons.However,given thediversenatureof

migrationmovements,itseemsreasonabletodistinguishatleastthreebasiccategoriesof

f orced internal displacement. These include: conflict-induced displacement,

environmentally-induced displacement, and development-induced displacement. Thus,thereareatleastthreebasictypesofinternallydisplacedpersons.

Biographicalnote

BogumilTerminski:ResearcherattheUniversityofWarsaw(2010)andPhDfellowatThe

Graduate Institute in Geneva (2009). Author of two books International Protection of

MigrantWorkers`Rights.OriginsInstitutionsandImpact (WarsawUniversityPress,2011)

andDevelopment Induced Displacement. AMonograph (in press), twoworking papers

(preparedfortheUNHCR),andmorethan30peerreviewedarticlespublishedinPoland,

Switzerland, Belgium, France, Spain, Colombia, Costa Rica, Argentina and the U.S.Memberof InternationalHumanitarianStudiesAssociation (IHSA),International Studies

Association (ISA), International Law Association (ILA), Harvard Humanitarian Law and

Policy Forum, The American Society for International Law (ASIL) and the InternationalNetworkforthePromotiontheRuleofLaw(INPROL).

Pei-SzeChow(UniversityCollegeLondon)

Constructing Post/Trans/National Spaces through Architecture in Film: The Case of

Malmö,Sweden.

Abstract

Thispaperdiscussesthecinematicrepresentationsoflandmarkarchitectureasamodeof

depicting lived experience in transnational spaces. I analyse three documentaries by

filmmaker Fredrik Gertten that deal with landmark architectural projects in Malmö,

Sweden: Gå På Vatten (2000), Bye Bye Malmö (2002), andSossenArkitekten och det

SkruvadeHuset (2005).

ThefilmsareaninvestigationintothesocialandspatialtransformationofMalmö

viatheconstructionoftwolandmarkstructuresandthedismantlingofone.Theypresent

narratives of global flows and post/trans/national identities told through the



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documentarymode,inwhichvisualandauralelementsboth reconstructanddeconstruct

the complex social relations emerging from the spatial/geographical dynamismof the

region.In thefilms,variouscharacters–‘locals’, ‘immigrant-citizens’,‘foreigntalent’,and

‘neighbours’–offer multiple narratives that are woven into the (de)construction of the

structures, producinga visual space that interrogates the relationship between spaces

andidentitiesinanincreasinglynetworkedandpostnationalworld.

I posit that these films use the representation of architecture as a tool to

problematizeandarticulatethesenewtransnationalflows,andtohelpusunderstandthe

broaderquestionofthewaysinwhichfilmsvisualizesocialchange.

Keywords:transnational,architecture,film,constructions


Berg,PerOlof,AndersLinde-Laursen,andOrvarLöfgren,eds. InvokingaTransnational

Metropolis:TheMakingoftheØresundRegion.Lund:Studentlitteratur,2000.

McNeill, Donald. The Global Architect: Firms, Fame and Urban Form. New York:

Routledge,2008.

Smith,MichaelP.TransnationalUrbanism:LocatingGlobalization.Malden,Mass.;Oxford:

Blackwell,2001.

Thomson, C. Claire, ed. Northern Constellations: New Readings in Nordic Cinema.

Norwich:NorvikPress,2006.

Biographicalnote

Pei-SzeisinthefirstyearofherPhDatUCL,andherresearchseekstoarticulatethe

intersectionsbetweenfilm,architecture,andtransnationalflows. InadditiontoMalmö,

her PhD project intends to study films about Berlin and Scotland. Broader research

themes include visual experimentation in film, cities, and identity and place-making

throughcinema.

Shereceived herBA (Hons) andMA (Research) fromtheNationalUniversityof

Singapore in 2006 and 2010 respectively, where her research focused on the DogmecollectiveandtheissueofauthenticityinthefilmsofLarsvonTrier.Thelattercontinues

tobeasecondaryresearchinterestoutsideofthePhDproject.

IzabelaIlowska(GlasgowUniversity)

ThespaceoftheEastEndinMonicaAli’sBrickLane

Abstract

Frederic Jameson writes that ‘we live in spacious times’. Indeed, along with the

emergenceofpostmodernism,theconceptofspacehasundergoneaprofoundchange.It



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has stopped being associatedwith geographical studies and perceived as empty and

static,butacquirednewcultural,abstractsense.

TheEastEndisapostmodernspace,asjustlikepostmodernity,itischaracterized

byfluidity,ambiguityandmultiplicityofmeanings.Itisaspaceofarrivalsanddepartures,

a space of immigrants. Indeed, the East End has always been the home of ethnic

minorities.Therefore,theplacehasbeenperceivedasanimaginativespaceoftheOther.

Thispaper investigates the postmodernand postcolonial spaceoftheEastEnd and its

representationandsignificanceinMonicaAli’snovelBrickLane.Itdemonstratesthatthe

EastEnd isnotapassivephysicallocation,but,mostofall,aconceptualand symbolic

space;animaginativespace;spaceofsocialrelations;spacerichinculturalmeanings.The

novelisalsoasuggestiveexplorationofHomiBhabha’sconceptofhybridity andEdward

Soja’sideaof‘Thirdspace’.Inthelastsceneofthenoveltheprotagonistgoesskatingina

sari. The ice rink, situated on the border of the East End and the commercial City,

becomesasymbolicspace:aspaceoftransculturalcoexistenceandpossibility.Itcanbe

seen as a postmodern and postcolonial version of ‘the third space’. In spite of itsprovisional character it is a space of interaction and openness inwhich diversity and

polyphonyofvoicesarerespectedandallowedtocoexist.

Keywords:Imaginarygeography,hybridity,Thirdspace,postmodernism


Ali,Monica,BrickLane(London:Doubleday,2003)

Bhabha,HomiK.,TheLocationofCulture(LondonandNewYork:Routledge,1994)

Harvey,David,TheConditionofPostmodernity (Oxford:BlackwellPublishing,1990)

Lefebvre, Henri, The Production of Space, trans. by Donald Nicholson-Smith, 2nd edn

(Oxford:BlackwellPublishing,1991)

Massey,Doreen, Space,Place,andGender (Minneapolis:UniversityofMinnesotaPress,

1994)

Soja, Edward W., PostmodernGeographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical SocialTheory (LondonandNewYork:Verso,1989)

Soja, Edward, W., Thirdspace: Journeys to Los Angeles and Other Real-And-Imagined

Places(Oxford:Blakwell,1996)

Biographicalnote

IamaPhDstudentofcreativewritingatGlasgowUniversity.CurrentlyIamworkingon

myfirstnovelaboutPolishimmigrantsinLondon.IstudiedEnglishliteratureinPoland

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PANEL2b:Perspectivesfromphilosophy

JanVoelkel(UniversityofAuckland)

BeyondBorders:TransformingTheDiscourseonEuropeanMigrationThroughDissensusinWorksofArt

Abstract

Asaresponsetothegrowingtensioninthepublicandpoliticaldebatearoundmigration

inEuropeparticularlyfrom‘Muslimcountries’,thispaperinstantiatestoreconfigurethis

discoursebyengagingwithworksofartfromthefieldsoffilm,theatreandartprojectsin

ordertoexplorethepossibilitiesofculturalproductsintheformationofnewsocialand

political coordinates. Based on examinations of the interrelations of politics and

aestheticsbyJacquesRancièreaswellaspostcolonialconceptsofculturalhybriditybyHomi Bhabha and Mark Terkessidis, the project explores the potential of artistic

expressions to create dissensus, which opens up a new space in-between. This in-

betweenisunderstoodasapolyperspectivalandemancipatingrealmofan interculture

that challenges exclusion and fixed hierarchies to be able to renegotiate societal

participation.Contrarytomanypreviousaswellasrecentpoliticalapproachesthatrefer

to concepts of an imaginary normative native past, by concentrating on dissensual

culturalproductiontoformahybridspacethatis reshapedandtransformedconstantly,

the project directs its focus on the shaping of a common the future with artistic

expressionsasakeycatalystforthesubversionofinequalities.

Keywords:dissensus,hybridity,interculture,distributionofthesensible


Balibar,EtienneandImmanuelWallerstein.Race,Nation,Class– AmbiguousIdentities.

London;NewYork:Verso,1991.

Bhabha,Homi.TheLocationofCulture.London;NewYork:Routledge,2004.

Rancière,Jacques,andGabrielRockhill.ThePoliticsofAesthetics:TheDistributionofthe

Sensible.London:Continuum,2006.

Terkessidis,Mark.Interkultur[Interculture].Berlin:Suhrkamp,2010.

BiographicalNote

JanVoelkelreceivedaBachelorofArtsDegreeinEnglishandGermanfromtheHeinrich-

HeineUniversity inDüsseldorf,Germany in2005.During his undergraduate studieshe

alsoworked as aneditorial assistant for GermanMusic TV channel VIVA TVand held

severalfreelancepositionforbothlocalandnationalbroadcastingservices.In2009he



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startedapostgraduatedegreeinFilm,TelevisionandMediaStudiesattheUniversityof

Auckland, New Zealand,whichearned him aPostgraduate DiplomawithDistinction in

2010 as well as aMaster of Arts with a First-Class Honours in 2011. He is currently

applyingforaPhDpositionatseveralinternationaluniversities.

FilippoMenozzi(UniversityofKent)

Hospitality/Incorporation:BetweenPsychoanalysisandPhilosophy.

Abstract

This paper will attempt to juxtapose two concepts, in-between philosophical and

psychoanalytic thinking, whichmay frame a discourse on the meaning of “welcoming

strangers”: hospitality and incorporation. The idea of hospitality is borrowed from

JacquesDerrida'sfamousseminaronthequestion,whileincorporationistakenfromthe

workoftwopsychoanalysts,NicolasAbrahamandMariaTorok.Mypresentationwillre-read Derrida's work on hospitality through the concept of incorporation. As Jacques

Derrida points out, hospitality is marked by the co-existence of two contradictory

demands:onthe one handwhathecalls“unconditionalhospitality,” onthe otherthe

lawsofconditionalhospitality.Theantinomyatthecentreofthisconceptresultsinan

aporetic situation where the conditional would make the unconditional possible and

impossibleatthesametime.Yet,inonepassageofhisseminar,Derridamakesuseofthe

word “incorporation,” whichmight refer toAbrahamand Torok, aboutwhomDerrida

wrote an important essay. Incorporation would consist in the accommodation of

strangersatthecoreoftheegothrough“crypticidentifications.”Yet,itcouldalsoallowus tosee hospitality ina different way, between the letter ofDerrida's discourse and

some uncanny metaphorical transitions, between a literal subject of hospitality, and

hospitalityitselfasasubject.

Keywords:hospitality,incorporation,psychoanalysis,Derrida.

Bibliography

Abraham,Nicolas,andMariaTorok.TheWolfMan'sMagicWord.Trans.NicholasRand.

Minneapolis:UofMinnesotaP,1986.---“Introjection–Incorporation.Mourningor

Melancholy.”inS.LeboviciandD.Widlocher(eds.)PsychoanalysisinFrance.NewYork:

InternationalUP,1980.

Derrida,Jacques.“Fors.TheAnglishWordsofNicholasAbrahamandMariaTorok.”In

Abraham,Nicolas,andMariaTorok.TheWolfMan'sMagicWord.Dufourmantelle,Anne,

andJacquesDerrida.OfHospitality.Trans.RachelBowlby.Stanford:StanfordUP,2000.

Biographicalnote

I am a third-year PhD student at the University of Kent in Canterbury. My research

focusesonarethinkingofthepostcolonialinliteraryandculturalstudies.Ihaveedited



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andcontributedtoaspecialissueoftheonlinejournalSkepsionliteratureandviolence

and I am co-editing a collection of stories of migration. My research interests are:

literature and psychoanalysis, European and non-European aesthetics, cultural

anthropology.

StephanHilpert(UniversityofCambridge)

MutualIntrusions:UlrichSeidl’sImport/ExportthroughJean-LucNancy

Abstract

Import/Export(2007)byAustrianauteurfilm-makerUlrichSeidltellstwodifferentstories

ofmigration inoppositedirectionsbetweenAustriaandEastEuropeancountries.Given

the social and political relevance of its content and Seidl’s specific style, the film has

received a certain amount of scholarly attention. However, in close relation to the

transnationalaspect, Import/Exportalsoprobesissuesofcommunity,contact,exposureand corporeality, which, in their combination and interconnectedness, are also at the

heart of Jean-Luc Nancy’s philosophy. Import/Export does not exhibit any obvious

connectiontoNancy:itisneitherbasedonhisphilosophy,norhashecommentedonthe

film.Thestrikingsimilaritiesinthemesneverthelesssuggestbringingthemtogether.This

paper consequently attempts a reading of the film through Nancy’s work in order to

discuss the extent to which it resonates with certain aspects of his thinking. This

perspectiveshallbeusedtohighlightimportantaspectsof Import/Exportwhichhavenot

beenanalysedcloselyinpreviousdiscussions,intermsofbothnarrativeandcinematic

form. The paper addresses several thematic areas which deserve attention since, inrelation to migration, they are crucially relevant for both Import/Export and Nancy:

intrusionandforeignness,community,touchandthebody.

Keywords:UlrichSeidl,Jean-LucNancy,migration,community


Brady, M. and Hughes, H. (2008), ‘Import and Export: Ulrich Seidl’s Indiscreet

Anthropology of Migration’, gfl-journal (German as a foreign language), 01/2008, pp.

100-122.

Grissemann, S. (2007), Sündenfall:Die Grenzüberschreitungen des FilmemachersUlrich

Seidl,Vienna:Sonderzahl.

Nancy, J.-L. ([1996] 2000), Being Singular Plural (trans. R. D. Richardson and A. E.

O’Byrne),Stanford:StanfordUniversityPress.

–––––([2000]2002),‘L’Intrus’(trans.S.Hanson),CR:TheNewCentennialReview,2:3,pp.

1-14.



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Biographicalnote

IstudyforaPhDattheUniversityofCambridge,writingathesisonpoliticsandspacein

contemporary German-language cinemawith anemphasison filmsbyUlrich Seidland

Christian Petzold. Currently I am a visiting PhD student at the Friedrich Schlegel

Graduiertenschule,FreieUniversitätBerlin.

PANEL3a:ConstructionsoftheOther:contemporarywriters

SaraMarzagora(SchoolofOrientalandAfricanStudies,UniversityofLondon)

LookingbacktotheHornfromRome:theliteraryactivismofEritrean,Somaliand

EthiopianwritersinmulticulturalItaly.

AbstractThe emergence, in the last 20 years, of an Italophone literature by African writers

challenged the rigidity of Italian literary canon. Critics opened for the first time to

disciplines like postcolonial and diaspora studies, but numerous debates over how to

defineandcategorizesuchnewbranchof literaturecontinuetodate.Scholarsstillshow

someresistancetoafullintegrationofthesewriterswithinItalianliterature–parallelto

thescepticismpartofItaliansocietydemonstratedonthepoliticalissueofmulticultural

inclusion. I shall sketch the history and characteristics of this new (and still

underexplored)field,focusinginparticularonItalian-languagenovelsbyauthorsfromthe

HornofAfrica.Criticsagreethatthe issueofmultipleidentitiesisakey themein theworksof

ItalianpostcolonialwritersfromtheHorn.Forthem,suchidentitycrisisisgroundedin

Italy’s inability to critically process its colonial past, and has therefore a prominent

historical dimension. When analysed through existing postcolonial theories, the texts

display a number of significantpeculiarities – firstof all the emphasis on the military

ratherthanculturalaspectsofcolonialdomination.Althoughthesediasporicauthorsare

firmlygroundedinItaliancontemporarydiscourse,suchpostcolonialspecificitieshighlight

thestrongcontinuitiesbetweentheirworksononesideandAmharic,SomaliandTigrinya

literatureontheother.

Keywords: Italian postcolonial literature, literatures of the Horn of Africa diaspora,

multiculturalisminItaly,postcolonialtheory


Barber,K.1995.African-languageliteratureandpostcolonialcriticism.ResearchinAfrican

Literatures26,no.4:3-30.



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DiMaio,A.2009.BlackItalia:ContemporarymigrantwritersfromAfrica.In BlackEurope

andtheAfricanDiaspora,eds.D.H.Clark,D.TricaandS.S.Keaton,119-132.Chicago,

USA:UniversityofIllinoisPress.

Negash, G. 2009. Native intellectuals in the contact zone. African responses to Italian

colonialisminTigrinyaliterature.Biography ,32,no.1:74-88.

Parati,G.2005.MigrationItaly:Theartoftalkingbackinadestinationculture.Toronto,

Canada:UniversityofTorontoPress.

Biographicalnote

AfteraBAandaMAinModernHumanitiesandLiteraryCriticismattheUniversityof

Milan,SaraMarzagoraspecializedinAfricancultureandhistoryatSOAS,withaparticular

focusontheHornofAfrica.SheisnowaPhDcandidateattheCentreforCulturalLiterary

andPostcolonialStudiesatSOAS,researchinghowthe1935-1941ItalianoccupationhasbeenrepresentedinEthiopiacontemporaryliterature.

CynthiaLytle(UniversitatdeBarcelona)

MakingThemStrange:RepresentationsoftheOther

inZoëWicomb’sTheOnethatGotAway

Abstract

Initsbouttoconquerandclassify,imperialismcreatedimagesofthecolonized.Throughsymbolssuchasart,bodiesandgardenscollectedandputondisplay,anillustrationof

thecolonizedlandandpeopleswerecreated.Theseimagesconstructedanessentialist

representation and were transmitted and disseminated throughout the “mother”

countries, embodying the dominance that the imperialpowerheld.These images also

acted as proof that the colonized peoples needed to be controlled. Moreover, the

representationscreatedanexoticismanddesirethatpermeatedtimeandcontinueinto

thepresent

Inhercollectionofshortstoriesentitled,TheOnethatGotAway,SouthAfrican

authorZoëWicombexplorestheconstructionandrepresentationofthestrangethrougha history of colonialismand how imagery exists in the present.Her short stories take

placeinbothSouthAfricaandScotland,wheretheauthorherselfcurrentlyresides,and

illustrates the ways in which strangers are and are not welcomed in each respective

country.UsingthetheoriesofcriticssuchasBendictAnderson,JudithButlerandZygmunt

Bauman,theproposedpresentationwillarguethatinadditiontodepictinghowstrangers

arereceived,Wicombshowshowthesymbolsofthesestrangers—throughsymbolssuch

as characterizations, art and plants—create prejudices that continue discrimination.

Moreover,throughanexplorationofsymbolsandcharacterizationsinhershortstories,

Wicomb questions and the creation of home, community and nation and who is

permittedtobelonginpostcolonialsettings.



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Keywords:postcolonialliterature,nationalism,Other,hybrididentities


Anderson,Benedict.2006(1983).ImaginedCommunities.London:Verso.

Bauman, Zygmunt.2001.Community: Seeking Safety inan InsecureWorld. Cambridge:

Polity.

Butler, Judith and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. 2007. Who Sings the Nation-State?

Language,Politics,Belonging.London:Seagull.

Schipper,Mineke.1999.(1996). ImaginingInsiders:AfricaandtheQuestionofBelonging.

London:Cassel.

Biographicalnote

CynthiaLytleisaPhDstudentattheDepartmentofEnglishandGermanPhilologyatthe

Universitat de Barcelona. Her research interests include postcolonial literature with a

focus on construction and representation of multiracial identities. Her dissertation is

particularlycenteredoncolouredidentitythroughtheworksofSouthAfricanauthorZoë

Wicomb.

LizzieRichardson(DurhamUniversity)

WritingtheMarginsortheMainstream?Figuringthestrangerinartisticpractice

Abstract

RecentartspolicydebatesintheUKcontinuetostruggleoverthequestionofhowto

include and recognise artists from a diverse range of ethnic backgrounds and

nationalities.Akeypointofcontentioniswhetheranyformofprovisionshouldattempt

toseparateorintegratesuchartistsintothe‘mainstream’.Thisdiscussionbroadlymirrors

thatinacademicworkonidentity,inwhichanti-essentialistunderstandingsofsubjectivity

strugglewith anethics of responsibility framed around recognitionof the ‘other’ thatseemstosimultaneouslyreinforcetheirexclusion.Tocontributetothesedebates,this

paperwilldrawontheworkandexperienceofaBlackBritishwriterbasedinBristol,UK.

Itwillshowthatthewriter’sidentityiscomplexlyplayedoutinadynamicbetweenthe

contentofhisworkandthechannelsthroughwhichitisproducedanddisseminated.By

demonstrating how absolute ‘otherness’ is neither consistently useful nor relevant in

apprehendingthewriter’sposition,itwillshowtheimportanceoftemporality,aswellas

location,toconceptionsofthefigureofthestranger.Therefore,thepaperquestionsthe

validityofthecategoryofthestranger,arguingforamorenuancedunderstandingthat

emphasisesthemyriadofwaysinwhichothernessmightmanifestorimpact.



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Keywords:representation,artisticpractice,otherness,marginalisation


ArtsCouncilEngland(2006)WhoseTheatre?ReportontheSustainedTheatreConsulation.

ArtsCouncilEngland,London.

Barnett, C. (2005) Ways of relating: hospitality and acknowledgement of otherness.

ProgressinHumanGeography 29(1)pp.5-21.

Hones,S.(2008)Textasithappens:literarygeographyGeographyCompass2(5)pp.1301-

1317.

Ranciere, J. (2004) The Politics of Aesthetics Translated by G. Rockhill. London:

Continuum.

Biographicalnote

Lizzie Richardson is a postgraduate researcher in the Department of Geography at

Durham University. Her ESRC-funded PhD researchdraws on practices of theatre and

spokenwordperformanceinBristol,UK.Theprojectexplorestheintersectionsbetween

narrative, race and creativity through the lens of performance. She holds degrees in

GeographyfrombothCambridge(BA)andDurham(MA)universities.

PANEL3b:Trans-positions:displacingmusicandmusicians

AlbertoHernándezMateos(UniversityofSalamanca)

Astrangeronbothsides:AntonioEximeno(1729-1808)andtheItalian-Spanishmusical

thought.

Abstract

Asa consequenceof the expulsionofthe Jesuits fromSpain, nearly 5000peoplewere

forcedintoexiletoItalyin1767.AntonioEximeno(1729-1808)wasoneofthem.Beinga

philosopherandamathematician,heusedthemusictheoryasamediumtogetinvolved

intheculturalnetsofasocietywhoselanguageandcustomshedidn’tknow.

Inourpresentation,weshallanalyzetheeffortsEximenodidinordertoassimilate

the Italian culture.Afterabandoning the Societyof Jesus, Eximenopublished the tract

Dell’origineedelleregoledellamusica(1774),whichreflectsthecultural“shock”suffered

by the author, and was disputed by some Italian authors (such as Padre Martini or

VincenzoOlivieri) who judged Eximeno as“the other” due tohis condition ofa Jesuit

who,ontopofthat,wasinexile.

In the Spanish translation of Dell’origine (1796), Eximeno introduced several

alterationsinordertorespondtosomeofthosearguments,aswellastocriticizethe



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opera,andtocreatestereotypedimagesoftheItalianpeople-somethinghewouldnot

daretodoinhishostcountry.InspiteofthecritiqueshefirstreceivedfromsomeSpainsh

authors(whoconsideredhimaforeigntheoretician),Eximenobecameamodelforthe

19th-CenturySpanishnationalistmusicology.

Keywords:Jesuits,Italy,Spain,Enlightenment


CARRERAS,JuanJosé:“HijosdePedrell.Lahistoriografíamusicalespañolaysusorígenes

nacionalistas(1780-1980)”,IlSaggiatoreMusicale,1(2001),p:121-169.

GIMÉNEZ,Enrique,andothers(eds.):EspañolesenItaliaeitalianosenEspaña.IVEncuentro

deinvsetigadoresdelasuniversidadesdeAlicanteyMacerata .Alicante:Universidadde

Alicante,1997.

GUASTI,Niccolò:L’esilioitalianodeigesuitispagnoli.Identità,controllosocialeepratiche

culturali,1767-1798.Roma:EdizionidiStoriaeLetteratura,2006.

NEUBAUER, John:The emantipation ofmusic from language.Departure frommimesis in

Eighteenth-Centuryaesthetics.NewHaven:YaleUP,1986.

Biographicalnote

He holds anMMus Hispanic Music (University of Valladolid-University of Salamanca,

2008),aswellasa BAMusicHistoryandSciences(UniversityofSalamanca,2007)andaBAArtHistory (UniversityofSalamanca,2007).HeiscurrentlyaPhDCandidateatthe

University of Salamanca, with the dissertation “El pensamiento musical de Antonio

Eximeno”(“AntonioEximeno’smusicalthought),underthedirectionofDr.JoséMáximo

Leza.

HeheldaScholarshipforthelastcourseofhisdegree,andatthepresentmoment

he holds a Scholaship “de Formación del Profesorado Universitario” –both of them

awardedbytheMinistryofEducationofSpain.Heparticipatesintheresearchprojects

“LarecepcióndelaóperaitalianayfrancesaenEspaña(1790-1870)”and“Larecepción

delamúsicaitalianaenMadridentre1770y1850.Óperayrepertorioinstrumental”.HehasstayedattheUniversityofToronto(Canada)asaresearchstudent,andhas

publishedtextsinscientificmagazines,suchas RevistadeMusicologíaandEarlyMusic

Magazine,aswellasinbookslikeFuentesdocumentalesinterdisciplinaresparaelstudio

delpatrimonioylaoralidadenEspaña.

Hehasparticipatedinseveralscientificevents,suchasthe IV JornadasdeJóvenes

Musicólogos y Estudiantes de Musicología (Oviedo, Spain, 2011), the Congreso

Internacional Perspectivas interdisciplinares para el trabajo de campo musical en el

periodo de Entreguerras (Salamanca, Spain, 2011), the II Congreso Internacional Luigi

Boccheriniylamúiscadesutiempo(Madrid,Spain,2011),ortheColloquiodiMusicologia





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Hall,Stuart.2003.‘Culturalidentityanddiaspora’.InTheorizingDiaspora:Areader.Eds.

JanaEvansBrazielandAnitaMannur.Malden,MA,OxfordandCarlton,Victoria:

Blackwell.Pp.233-246.

Monson,Ingrid.2007.FreedomSounds:CivilRightsCallOuttoJazzandAfrica.Oxford,

andNewYork:OxfordUniversityPress.

Biographicalnote

Stephanie is a PhD candidate at the Music Department of Music of Royal Holloway,

UniversityofLondon,whereshefurthersherresearchinterestsinSouthAfricanexileand

jazz improvisation. She had previously taught at the University of South Africa and

convenedtwosymposiaonthetopicofmusicandexileincollaborationwiththeGoethe

Institute(Johannesburg)andtheJohannesburgInternationalMozartFestival.

AlanAshton-Smith(LondonConsortium)

MultiKontraCulti:GypsyPunkMulticulturalism

Abstract

This paper sets out to examine Gypsy Punk, a hybridised immigrant subculture and

musicalgenre.AtitscoreisthebandGogolBordello,whichiscomprisedofimmigrants

fromfivecontinentsbasedinNewYork,andwhichwasformedbyUkrainianEugeneHütz

inthelate1990s.

Sinceitisanimmigrantcultureconcernedwithaclashofstyles,onewouldexpectGypsyPunktohaveastanceonglobalisationandmulticulturalism:theaimofthispaper

istodeterminewhatthisstance is. Certainly, itisovertlyconcernedwiththebringing

togetherofdifferentmigrantcultures,butitsexactpositiononthebringingtogetherof

differentnationsandpeoplesrequiresdeeperanalysis.

Gogol Bordello’s concept of Multi Kontra Culti introduces a multicultural

counterculturethatisprevalentthroughouttheirwork,whichusesnotonlyanarrayof

musical styles, but also multiple languages, and which foregrounds the migrant

backgroundsofGogolBordello’smusicians.PatternsofmigrationfromEasternEurope

have no doubt fuelled Gypsy Punk, but immigrants are not necessarily the intendedaudienceofthemovement.Indeed,representationsofthehomelandInGypsyPunkare

oftendistortedorinvented,playingontheprejudicesandpreconceptionsofthoseinthe

west.MultiKontraCulti revealsthecomplexideasconcerningthemeetingofmigrants

andtheirdestinationswhichareatplayinGypsyPunk.

Keywords:GypsyPunk,MultiKontraCulti ,migration,multiculturalism



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Frith,Simon.‘TowardsanAestheticofPopularMusic’,inRichardLeppertandSusan

McClary(eds.):MusicandSociety:ThePoliticsofComposition,Performanceand

Reception(Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,1987),pp.133-149.

Giddens,Anthony.RunawayWorld:HowGlobalisationisReshapingOurLives(London:

Profile,1999).

Hütz,Eugene:‘GogolBordelloArtist’sStatement’.GogolBordello’swebsite

<http://www.gogolbordello.com/the-band/mission/>

Steigerwald,David.Culture’sVanities:TheParadoxofCulturalDiversityinaGlobalized

World (Lanham,MD:Rowman&Littlefield,2004).

BiographicalnoteAlanAshton-SmithiscompletingaPhDinHumanitiesandCulturalStudiesattheLondon

Consortium. The subject of his thesis is the increasingly popular musical genre and

culturalmovement, GypsyPunk,and its relationshipwith suchdiverse fields asmusic,

immigration,mythologyandRomanistudies.

PANEL3c:Theworldoffilm

NataljaPoljakowa(RoyalHolloway,UniversityofLondon)

‘FromourowncorrespondentinBerlin’:theGermanimpactonSovietfilmcultureofthe

1920s

Abstract

The recent surgeof research interest inWeimar-Soviet film collaboration corresponds

withtheinvestigationoftheinfluenceofGerman-Russiancross-culturalencountersinthe

1920sonthetrajectoryofnationalhistories.Sincethemaking,distributionandreception

of films in the two countries were influenced by rapidly growing international

communities, thepaper aims to explore thecinematiccross-fertilisations between the

twoculturesandtheireffectonthedevelopmentofvisualculture,massstereotypingand

thepublicattitudeto‘strangers’.

Firstly,thepaperwillexploreSovietnotionsandmythsaboutWeimarGermany

anditsinfluentialcinemathroughtheexaminationoflittle-knownfilmperiodicalsofthe

1920s (Kino-journal ARK , Kino-nedelya, Sovetskij Ekran) that published film reviews,

reportsabout‘expeditions’toGermanyundertakenbySovietfilmmakersanddiscussions

ofthesignificanceofimportedfilmsforconceptionsofthe‘NewSovietMan’.Adetailed

analysisoftheGermanimpactonRussianfilmisgiventhroughtheexampleofFriedrich

Ermler’sFragmentoftheEmpire(1928).Secondly,thepaperwillaccountforGermany’s



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ambivalenceinthefilmicrepresentationofRussianswhointhe1920sweredividedinto

thetwocommunitiesofconservativeémigrésandrevolutionarycommunists:fromthe

sentimentalityof theclichéd images inWeimar-releasedRussenfilmetotheencounter

withthecinematicrealismoftheSovietavantgardeafter1926.

Keywords:Germany,SovietUnion,1920s,film


Egorova, N., ‘Nemetskie nemye fil’my v sovetskom prokate’ [German silent films

distributedintheSovietUnion],in Kinoivremya.Bulleten’.Vyp.IV(Moscow:Iskusstvo,

1965),pp.380-476

Yangirov,Rashit, ‘RabyNemogo’:Ocherkiistoricheskogobytarusskikhkinematografistov

zarubezhom,1920-1930-egody [‘TheSlavesoftheSilent’:EssaysonthelifeofRussian

cineastes abroad: 1920-30s] (Moscow: Biblioteka-fond ‘Russkoe Zarubezhje’ – Russkijput’,2007)

Tsivian, Juri, ‘Caligari in Russland’: der deutsche Expressionismus und die sowjetische

Filmkiltur’,inMontage/AV2.No.2(1993),pp.35-48

Schlögel ,Karl ,BerlinOstbahnhofEuropas.RussenundDeutscheinihremJahrhundert

(Berlin:SiedlerVerlag,1998)

BiographicalnoteNatalja Poljakowa is the first year PhD student at the Royal Holloway, University of

London.AftergraduatingfromtheSyktyvkarStateUniversityinRussiawhereshestudied

comparative literature in 2006, she was involved in a three-year research project

concerning German-Russian cultural connections at the Institute of World Literature,

RussianAcademyofSciences inMoscow.NataljareceivedherMAinGerman fromthe

RoyalHolloway in 2011 for her dissertation about ‘otherness’ inWeimar cinema. Her

currentresearchinterestsareconcernedwithGerman-Sovietfilmrelationshipsduringthe

interwarperiodwiththemainfocusontheproblemoftheinternationaldistributionand

reception.

RachelKapelke-Dale(UniversityCollegeLondon)

FromStrangerstoStars,StarstoStrangers:GretaGarboandMarleneDietrichinEarly

1930sHollywood

Abstract

RepresentationsofcosmopolitanEuropeanwomenin1930sHollywoodchallengethe

ideaofthewelcomestranger,asonce-popularforeignstarsreceivedincreasingly

negativereviewsandpresscoveragearound1933.Theproposedpaperwillthusstudy



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dropinthepopularityoftwocanonicalEuropeanstars,GretaGarboandMarlene

Dietrich,inHollywoodfrom1930-1933.Theconstructionoffemalestarsasexotic

strangerssituatedthesedisplacedwomenasrepresentativeoftheir“home”nations;the

paperwillquestionwhatthismeantintermsofHollywood’svisionofEuropeandthus

constructionsofnationaldifferencesinaglobalmediaform.

Centeringonthegeo-politicalandindustrialchangesthatoccurredinthisperiod,the

studywillexaminethestars’coverageinthepressasindicativeoftheirpopularand

criticalreception.Indoingso,itwilltracetheconstructionsofGarboandDietrichasstars

intheAmericanimaginationthroughtheinteractionbetweentheir“startexts”andtheir

roles,followedbythesubsequentlapseoftheirinitialpopularity.Forexample,filmslike

Dietrich’sSongofSongs(1933)werereleasedtonegativereviewsandarticles

questioningherfutureviabilityasaHollywoodstar.Thepaperwillthenanalyzethe

extenttowhichtheirrepresentationsandstarpersonaewillinglyconnectedor

disconnectedto“real”eventsoftheday,showinghowpublicreceptionshifted

throughoutthisvitalperiodtomomentarilyturnthesestarsbackintostrangers.

Keywords:Hollywoodexpatriates,cosmopolitanstrangers,transnational

actresses,Europeanstars


Trademagazines:Photoplay,ModernScreen,SilverScreen(amongothers)

Pressreviews:e.g.Hall,Chapin.“PicturesandPlayersinHollywood.”NewYorkTimes,25

September1932,X3.

Wallace,David.ExilesinHollywood.LimelightEditions,2006.

Baxter,John.TheHollywoodExiles.TaplingerPub.Co.,1976

Biographicalnote

AnativeofMilwaukee,WI,RachelKapelke-DalehasaBachelorofArtsfromBrown

UniversityinHistoryofArtandArchitecture(honors)andComparativeLiteraturein

FrenchandEnglish.ShehasaMasterIandIIRecherchefromtheUniversitédeParisVIIinCinemaStudies,whereshestudiedwithMarcVernet,alsowithhonors.Sheis

currentlyaPh.D.candidateintheFilmStudiesdepartmentoftheCentreofIntercultural

Studies,UCL,wheresheisstudyingunderthesupervisionofDr.LeeGrievesonandDr.

MelvynStokes.

HerPh.D.dissertationexaminesthecharactersplayedbyEuropeanwomenstars

ofvariousnationalitiesinHollywoodfrom1929-1941,andstudieshowrepresentationsof

cosmopolitanforeignwomenshiftedduringaperiodofuncertaintyandisolationismin

Americanforeignrelations.Herresearchinterestsincludegeo-politicalinfluenceson

artisticrepresentation,narratology,starstudies,aestheticandcriticaltheory,andpost-

warFrenchfilm.



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KamilZapasnik(Birkbeck,UniversityofLondon)

EscapingOtherness?IdentitiesatTheMargins inClaireDenis’ J’aipassommeil/ICan’t

Sleep.

Abstract

Claire Denis’s 1993 film J’ai pas sommeil/I Can’t Sleep draws a dark and dramatic

descriptionoftheParisianunderworldinhabitedby‘illegalimmigrants’andpost-migrants

at the beginning of 1990’s. This powerfully poignant film examines the lives of the

European Others who suffer through the experiences of racism, xenophobia and

exclusion.

This paper will focus on the problem of migrant and post-migrant identities

represented in Denis’s film. I will closely analyse the character of Camille and his

experiencesofbeinganEuropeanOtherinordertodiscusshowDenis’sfilmexposesthepost-colonial reality of contemporary Parisasa spacewhere the Others are forced to

constantlyre-experiencethesenseofexclusionandnon-belonging.

Furthermore, this paperwill argue that Denis’s film exposes complexity of the

experience of foreignness and Otherness in order to emphasise the exclusionary and

harmful characterof social divisionsprevalentwithin contemporaryWestern societies.

The paper will focus on the character of Camille in order to discuss the relationship

between Camille’s internalizedmarginalisation, hisextremeneed to assimilate andhis

criminalacts.ThroughacloseanalysisofCamille’scomplexpersona,Iwillarguethat

Denis’sfilmcallsforare-considerationoftheexistingsocialstandardsanddivisions.

Keywords:exclusion,post-migrant,assimilation,belonging


Beugnet,Martine."NegotiatingConformity:TalesofOrdinaryEvil."InFranceinFocus.

FilmandNationalIdentity ,byElizabethEzraandSueHarris,195-207.Oxford:Berg,2000.

Lübecker,Nikolaj."TheDedramatizationofViolenceinClaireDenis'sICan'tSleep."

Paragraph30,no.2(2007):17-33.

Oster,Corinne."DecodingUnreadableSpaces:ClaireDenis'J'aipassommeil."Kinoeye:

NewPerspectivesonEuropeanFilm,3:7(2003).www.kinoeye.org/03/07/oster07.php

(accessedJune25,2011).

Silverman,Maxim.DeconstructingtheNation.Immigration,RacismandCitizenshipin

ModernFrance.London:Routledge,1995.



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Biographicalnote

Kamil completed his BA in Film, Video and Interactive Arts at Middlesex University

(London) in 2009. In 2010 Kamil was awarded an MA in European Cultures from the

University of London (Birkbeck). Currently, Kamil is a second year, full-time Research

studentattheDepartmentofEuropeanCulturesandLanguagesatBirbkeck,Universityof

London, where his thesis,Exploring European Identity Through European Cinema,is

supervisedbyDrAndrewAsibongandDrJoanneLeal.



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