Conference Schedule
13th March, Friday 9 am - 9.30 am Breakfast 9.30 am - 9.45 am Opening remarks 9.45 am - 11.15 pm Panel 1 - Articulating Migration: Speaking the Body and Saying the “I” Respondent: Christi Merrill Olan Munson: “Between Meaning and Bodies: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s DICTEE” Julia Irion Martins: “Helpless Gazes: Translating Testimony and Documenting Subjectivity” 11.15 am - 11.30 am Coffee Break 11.30 am - 1 pm Panel 2 - “Forgetting” Home? Modeling Belonging, Narrating Resistance Respondent: Giulia Riccò Vedran Catovic: “Engineering Misery: Representation of Immigrant Population in Leïla Slimani's 'Chanson douce'” Hugo A. López Chavolla: “Returning to a Forgotten Home: Politics of Belonging and National Identity (De)construction in Lina Meruane’s Volverse Palestina (2013)” Martin Ruiz Mendoza: “Depicting Exodus in Contemporary Latin America” 1 pm - 2 pm Lunch 2 pm - 3.30 pm Keynote - Ariella Azoulay, "Errata" 3.30 pm - 4.30 pm Reception 5.30 pm - 7 pm Film Screening: Un-Documented – Undoing Imperial Plunder 14th March, Saturday 9 am - 9.30 am Breakfast 9.30 am - 11 am Panel 3 - Negotiating State Power and the Legal Discourse of Immigration Respondent: Maya Barzilai Dejan Duric: “Semiotics of the Legal Soul: Typification, Liberation, and Religion in the 1980’s Sanctuary Movement” Tom Drucker: “Involuntary Movement of Bodies Trafficked through Boundaries” Shreya Bhardwaj and Felipe Kaiser Fernandes: “Minaret, Pagoda and a City of Spires: Visible and invisible religious practices among Muslim and Vietnamese Communities in the Czech Republic” 11 am - 11.15 am Coffee Break 11.15 am - 12.45 pm Panel 4 - Visualizing Encounters: The (in)Visibility of the Migrant Subject Respondent: Kristin Dickinson Lara Fresko Madra: “İz Öztat’s Heterochronic Imagination: Recovering histories of violent displacement and genocide from Ottoman Empire to Republic of Turkey” Matt Liberti: “John Berger and Jean Mohr’s Right to Watch” Amanda Ndaw: “A Moving Target: Locating the Senegalese-Spanish Border in Spanish Cultural Production” 12.45 pm - 1.45 pm Lunch 1.45 pm - 3.15 pm Panel 5 - Migratory Circulation across Time and Space Respondent: Niloofar Sarlati Dylan Ogden: “Between Russia and The Imaginary West: Reading Alain Robbe-Grillet in Vasily Aksyonov’s The Burn” Hale Şirin: “A Humanistic Cosmopolitanism: Erich Auerbach's Philological Method” Qian Liu: “Is the Divine Comedy Modernizable? Dante and the Polemic of Migration in the Works of Giampiero Coretti” 3.15 pm - 3.30 pm Coffee Break 3.30 pm - 5.00 pm Panel 6 - Instant Movement: Social Media and the Shaping of Migration Respondent: Johannes Von Moltke Renato Caetano Duarte: “Populism Through Images: The Circulation of Parodic Leadership” Sam McCracken: “Milk and Honey, Making Money: On the Varied Migrations of Rupi Kaur’s (insta)Poetry” Rachel Wilson: “From the "Mouth of the Shark": Mapping the spread of Warsan Shire’s 'Home'” 5 pm - 5.30 pm Closing Remarks 7.30 pm - 9 pm Student Creative Reading at Braun Court |