The Conference Team are very much looking forward to welcoming all speakers and attendees to the ‘Migration and Transcultural Memory in the 21st Century’ conference on 3rd May 2017.
Our full programme is now available – we are very excited to see some fascinating looking papers coming up tomorrow!
OUTLINE OF DAY:
9.00 – 9.15 Registration
9.15 – 9.30 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9.30 – 11.00 PANEL 1 – Forging Transcultural Frameworks of Memory: Dual Belongings Beyond Bounded Communities of Remembrance
11.00 – 11.15 Coffee Break
11.15 – 12.45 PANEL 2 – Historical and Familial Memories in Dialogue: Genealogies Across Cultures
12.45 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 15.00 PANEL 3 – Multidirectional Migration of Memories in the Late Imperial Isles
15.00 – 15.15 Coffee Break
15.15 – 16.45 PANEL 4 – Mediums and Channels of Memory: Datafication, Television and Material Objects
16.45 – 17.00 Closing Remarks
PANEL 1 : Forging Transcultural Frameworks of Memory: Dual Belongings Beyond Bounded Communities of Remembrance
Songyun Zheng, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (visiting scholar at Queen Mary’s, London)
Harbin Jews: Memories on the Move
Daniela Zanini, University of London
‘Think about how difficult it has been to be Italian in this country’. Transcultural Memories of Italian Migration to Australia in Polenta e Goanna by Emilio Gabbrielli
Jan Lensen, Free University of Berlin
Through the Eyes of the Interstitial Agent: Migrant Interventions in Dutch Cultural Memory in Mano Bouzamour’s De belofte van Pisa
PANEL 2: Historical and Familial Memories in Dialogue: Genealogies Across Cultures
Beatrice Ivey, University of Leeds
Beyond ‘Beur’: Transcultural Memory in the Works of Ahmed Kalouaz
Hannah Kershaw, University of York
Postcolonial Genealogies in Leila Aboulela’s The Kindness of Enemies and Ahdaf Soueif’s The Map of Love
Nadia Butt, University of Giessen
‘Overlapping Territories, Intertwined Histories’: The Dynamics of Transcultural Memory in Vikram Seth’s Memoir Two Lives (2005)
PANEL 3: Multidirectional Migration of Memories in the Late Imperial Isles
Sara Dybris McQuaid, Aarhus University
The 1916 Easter Rising and the End of Empire: Transnational Templates of Irish and Indian Freedom Struggles
Jacco Visser, Aarhus University
Celebrating Victory Day of Bangladesh in East-London: Transnational Linkages and Local Power Struggles over the Bangladesh War of 1971
PANEL 4 :Mediums and Channels of Memory: Datafication, Television and Material Objects
Rieke Böhling, University of Bremen
Revisiting Migration Memories in the Context of Current Migratory Movements
Simona Palladino, University of Newcastle
Reflecting on Migrant’s Memories Through Biographical Objects: Perspectives of Older Italian Migrants in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Katrin Wunderlich, University of Cambridge
When Non-Minority Authors Migrate, Memories Travel: Towards an Ethics of Transcultural Reading in German-Language Representations of 9/11