Friday, December 3, 9:00 am - 5:45 pm
Saturday, December 4, 9:00 am - 3:50 pm
Rutgers Student Center
Graduate Student Lounge
126 College Avenue
College Avenue Campus
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
and
Milledoler Hall, Room 100
520 George Street
College Avenue Campus
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Saturday, December 4, 9:00 am - 3:50 pm
Rutgers Student Center
Graduate Student Lounge
126 College Avenue
College Avenue Campus
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
and
Milledoler Hall, Room 100
520 George Street
College Avenue Campus
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
A Graduate Student Conference, Trading Cultures: Migration and Multiculturalism in Contemporary Europe, will be held on December 3-4. Graduate students from around the world will present papers and Rutgers faculty will serve as discussants and moderators.
We are pleased to announce two special guests. Professor Will Kymlicka will speak on the topic “The Retreat from Multiculturalism in Europe.” Ms. Branwen Okpako will present her film Valley of the Innocent [Tal der Ahnungslosen] and lead a discussion of it.
All events are free and open to the public.
Program Schedule
We are pleased to announce two special guests. Professor Will Kymlicka will speak on the topic “The Retreat from Multiculturalism in Europe.” Ms. Branwen Okpako will present her film Valley of the Innocent [Tal der Ahnungslosen] and lead a discussion of it.
All events are free and open to the public.
Program Schedule
FRIDAY December 3, 2004 Morning: Rutgers Student Center Graduate Student Lounge 126 College Avenue, CAC Afternoon: Milledoler Hall, Room 100, CAC 9:00-9:20 Welcome and opening remarks Prof. Gerald Pirog Associate Director, Center for Comparative European Studies Rutgers University Dean Harvey Waterman Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Graduate School Rutgers University Caterina Romeo Transliteratures Fellow, Comparative Literature Rutgers University 9:20-11:00 Panel I - Representing Multiculturalism and Social Conflicts Chair: Wesley Brown Department of English, Rutgers University Kate Benward – Comparative Literature, NYU Swallowing up the Margins: Dominant and Subversive Narratives of Multiculturalism in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth Caterina Romeo – Comparative Literature, Rutgers University Questioning Race and the Color Line in Nassera Chora’s Volevo diventare bianca Karina Sliwinski – German Literature and Culture, University of California, Berkeley Photography, Migration and Memory in the Work of Turkish-German Author Emine Sevgi Özdamar Elizabeth Holt – Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University Cartography and Clandestinité in Leïla Sebbar's Shérazade: 17 ans, brune, frisée, les yeux verts 11:00-11:15 Coffee Break 11:15-12:45 Panel II – Mechanisms of Inclusion and Exclusion: Citizenship, Integration, Liberalism Chair: Jan Kubik Center for Comparative European Studies, Rutgers University Andreea Udrea – Graduate School of Social Research, The Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw (Poland) Transnationality as a Socio-Economic and Political Strategy of Migrant Communities Merih Anil – Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center Theoretical and Practical Impact of German Citizenship Reform of 1999 on Turkish Immigrants in Berlin: Preliminary Findings Ajay Singh Chaudhary – Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University The Simulacra of Morality: Islamic Veiling, Religious Politics and the Limits of Liberalism Michael O. Sharpe – Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center Globalization and Migration: A Preliminary Qualitative Study of the Political Incorporation of Dutch Caribbean Immigrants in the United States and the Netherlands 12:45-1:45 Lunch N. B. All afternoon events will take place at Milledoler Hall, Room 100, CAC 1:45-3:15 Keynote Speaker: Professor Will Kymlicka Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy Department of Philosophy Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario 3:30-5:45 Special Guest: Branwen Okpako Film director Winner of the Bavarian documentary film prize The Young Lion, and First Prize at the Dubrovnik Documentary Film Festival in 2001. |
Screening and discussion of Valley of the Innocent
(Tal der Ahnungslosen, 2003) 6:00-7:30 Reception Center for Comparative European Studies 172 College Avenue SATURDAY December 4, 2004 Rutgers Student Center Graduate Student Lounge 126 College Avenue, CAC 9:00-10:20 Panel III – Representing Transnational Identities Chair: Susan Martin-Márquez Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University Sonia Sabelli – Women’s Studies, University of Rome “La Sapienza” (Italy) Transnational Identities and the Subversion of Language in Contemporary Italian Literature Matthew Sharpe – Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center Transnational North Africans and the Liminal Imaginary Adriana X. Tatum – Comparative Literature, Princeton Unsafe Bodies: Transnational Collisions in Ronit Matalon’s Sarah, Sarah 10:30-11:30 Panel IV - Work and Labor Chair: Barbara Cooper Center for African Studies, Rutgers University Aleta Aslani Styers – Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center Migration of Workers into France and Germany Luca Trappolin – Sociology, University of Padua (Italy) Gender Victims and Cultural Borders: The Globalization of Prostitution in Italy 11:30-11:45 Coffee Break 11:45-1:00 Panel V – Mapping the Nation Chair: Carmen-Francesca Banciu Author Christopher Lawrence – Cultural Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center Re-bordering the Nation: Neo-liberalism and Neo-racism in Rural Greece Irena Kašparová – Social Science, Masaryk University Brno, (Czech Republic) Does Roma (Gypsy) Nationalism Exist? Alessio Loreti – French, Birkbeck College, University of London (UK) Mediterranean Migrations and Multiple Identities: The Italian Diaspora of Tunisia between Patriotism and French Assimilation 1:00-2:00 Lunch provided by the Center for Comparative European Studies 2:00-3:40 Panel VI - Politics of Location Chair: Abena Busia Department of English, Rutgers University Nadeen M. Thomas – Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center On Headscarves and Heterogeneity: Perspectives on the French Foulard Affair Alyssa Best – Women’s Studies, Rutgers University Abortion Rights Along the Irish-English Border and the Liminality of Women’s Experiences Tihomira Trifonova – Institute for Politics and Public Communications, Sofia (Bulgaria) Self-definition and Self-representation of Arab Immigrants in Bulgaria Peter Polak – History, Rutgers University Outcasts of the Wild West: the Germans of the Oder-Neisse Territories, 1945-7 3:40-3:50 Conclusion |
Conference Support gratefully acknowledged from
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences The Faculty of Arts and Sciences The Academic Excellence Fund of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs The Graduate Student Association The Program in Comparative Literature The Transliteratures Project The Black Atlantic Project and The Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis The Center for African Studies The Department of Women's and Gender Studies |
For further information contact:
The Center for Comparative European Studies
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The Center for Comparative European Studies
732-932-8551 or