WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
The roundtables are discussion based so participants need to have read the pre-circulated papers beforehand
To receive a copy of the papers please contact eman.s.morsi@dartmouth.edu
All roundtable sessions will take place in Haldeman 246
Monday August 12
6:00 pm-8:30pm: Opening reception and dinner at the Hanover Inn for participants and sponsors
Tuesday August 13
7:30 am-9:00 am: Breakfast
Day 1. Theorizing the Home/land
Roundtable I: 9:30 am-12:00pm
- Ofure Aito, Senior Lecturer, Department of English and Literary Studies, Faculty of Arts, Federal University, Lokoja, Nigeria
- Home and Exile: Belonging/’Unbelonging’ Identities in Nwosu’ A Gecko’s Farewell
- Oluwole Coker, Senior Lecturer, Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
- Tensions of (Be) longing: Envisioning Home and the Homeland in the Twenty-first Century African Novel
- Subhasree Ghosh, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Calcutta, India
- In Search of Home: Nostalgia and Trauma of Lost Homeland of the East Bengali Migrants
12:00 pm- 1:30pm Lunch
Roundtable II: 2:00 pm-4:30 pm
- Alina De Luna, PhD Candidate, Center for Conflict Studies, Phillips University of Marburg, Germany
- This Body We Call Home: Exploring the relation between body and home
- Eman Morsi, Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College, USA
- Exile in the Sprachraum: Home and Language in the Works of Cristina Peri Rossi and Ghada al-Samman.
- Shareah Taleghani, Assistant Professor, Queens College, the City University of New York, USA
- Home, Exile, and Emotional Border Zones in Two Syrian Documentaries
5:00pm-7:00pm: Screening of Syrian film, Haunted. Followed by Q&A. Open to Public. (trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl4KRwCqVlY)
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Wednesday August 14
7:30am-9:00 am Breakfast
Day 2. In-Between Spaces and Border Ecologies
Roundtable III: 9:30 am – 12:00pm
- Silvia Soto, Visiting Assistant Professor, American Indian Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
- Localizing Mayanness: vivencias and the challenges of belongingness
- Rituparna Mitra, Assistant Professor of Literature and Writing, Marlboro College, USA
- Partitioned Border Ecologies in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide and Akhtaruzzaman Elias’ Khoabnama
- Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Professor and Chair of Migration and Refugee Studies, Department of Geography, University College London (UCL), UK
- A rhizoanalysis of ‘more-than-camps’ in the Middle East: exploring the constitutive nature of overlapping processes of displacement and destruction
12:00-1:30pm Lunch
Roundtable IV: 2:00 pm-4:30pm
- Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, DPhil Candidate in English Literature, St Anne’s College, University of Oxford, UK.
- Writing the Camp: Death, Dying and Dialects
- Svati Shah, Associate Professor, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (additional appointment, Department of Anthropology), University of Massachusetts, Amherst. USA
- Sexuality as Homeland: Queering Genealogies of Anti-Sodomy Law Activism in India
- Sireesha Telugu, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Hyderabad, India
- Between Citizenships: Questions of “Home” among the Burmese-Indian Repatriates”
5:00pm -7:00 pm: Opening for artist Nobukho Nqaba,(http://artmeets.agency/nobukho-nqaba/). Installation at the Hood Museum with reception. Open to public.
7:30 Dinner for Workshop Participants
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ThursdayAugust15
7:30am-9:00 am Breakfast
Day 3. Globalization and Transnational Identities
Roundtable V: 9:30 am-12:30pm
- Lin Chen, PhD Student, Department of Political Science, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and Department of Sociology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.
- Identity Reshaping and Maintaining of The African Student Migrants Through Social Networks Across the Digital Space Border Of The Great Fire Wall In China
- Elmo Gonzaga, Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
- Emergent Imaginaries of South-South Circulation and Community in the Inter-Asian Migrant Labor Melodrama
- Vivian Lu, Postdoctoral Associate, Council on African Studies, Affiliation with Ethnicity, Race, and Migration Program. Yale University, USA.
- Decolonial Capital: Economic Sovereignty and Diasporic Citizenship in Nigerian South-South Commerce
- Khangelani Moyo, Associate Researcher, Global Change Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
- “Beyond the allure of gold”: Zimbabwean migrants belonging, attachment and identity in Johannesburg
12:30-2:30 Lunch
Roundtable VI: 2:30pm – 4:00 pm
- Concluding session
6:00- 8:00: Nobukho Nqaba artist talk followed by Community Dinner