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Subject: Report, Multilingualism in Dublin
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan [mailto:P.OSullivan[at]bradford.ac.uk]=20

The Report of a pilot project Multilingualism in Dublin is now available =
at
this link

http://arno.uvt.nl/show.cgi?fid=3D113190

The researchers are Lorna Carson and Guus Extra.

It is perhaps of special interest that in this report speakers of the =
Irish
language become one minority among many.

This is from the Lorna Carson's web site at TCD

http://tcdlocalportal.tcd.ie/pls/public/staff.detail?p_unit=3Dclcs&p_name=
=3Dcars
onle

DUBLIN: MULTILINGUAL CITY. Ireland's linguistic landscape has changed
remarkably. However, although we hear and see many languages around us, =
we
do not know how many languages, or which languages, are spoken here. =
There
is a complete absence of linguistic data on immigrant communities. =
Unless
the languages spoken in Ireland are documented quickly, we will lose the
opportunity to record the immense changes that are taking place. This
investigation is the first survey of immigrant languages spoken by =
children
in Ireland, reporting on a large sample of national school pupils in the
city.=20

This project is a replication of a well-known and pioneering Europe-wide
survey: the Multilingual Cities Project (Extra & Ya=F0mur, 2004). The =
original
project, coordinated by Prof. Extra (Tilburg University) in =
collaboration
with linguistic experts from universities in each country, investigated
immigrant languages amongst primary age children in six European cities
(G=F6teborg, Hamburg, The Hague, Brussels, Lyon and Madrid).=20

The project has recently been launched in Vienna and in the Baltic =
States.
The survey employs a quantitative methodology. A computer-readable
questionnaire is administered to pupils, asking questions about (i) =
language
proficiency, (ii) language dominance, (iii) language choice and (iv)
language preference, at school and home. Most studies of immigrant =
minority
languages in Europe have focussed on one particular country, or on one
particular language at national or European level (e.g. Arabic, =
Turkish).
Few studies have taken both a crossnational and crosslinguistic =
perspective
on the status and use of immigrant minority languages. Language profiles =
and
language vitality indexes and maps will be compiled for each language
community, in order to establish which languages currently are spoken =
across
Dublin. This would also enable trans-European research to be conducted
amongst the other cities which have already participated in the project. =


Research questions addressed: Which languages are most spoken in Dublin
city? What kind of "language capital" do children in our primary schools
possess? How multilingual are the next generation of children in Dublin
likely to become? Is there a tendency for multilingualism to be replaced =
by
monolingualism in English? Against what linguistic backdrop might mother
tongue instruction in immigrant languages develop in Ireland? Do =
different
immigrant communities hold their language(s) as a core value of their
cultural identity in the context of migration? Is there =
intergenerational
transmission of immigrant minority languages in the home, (a =
prerequisite
for language maintenance)? To what extent can the pupils questioned
understand/speak/read/write these languages? To what extent are these =
home
languages commonly spoken with family and friends Are children =
proficient in
these home languages? Which languages do immigrant children prefer to =
speak?
Which languages do primary children (including ethnically Irish children
from English- or Irish-speaking homes) wish to learn at school (that =
they
are not currently learning)? The report on the findings of the pilot =
phase
have been published in 2010, in co-authorship with Professor Guus Extra
(Tilburg, NL)

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Subject: Centre for Migration Studies Christmas Message and REPORT
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Dear colleagues and friends

CMS Annual Report 2009-2010 =A0

May we draw your attention to our Annual Report for 2009-2010, which can =
now
be viewed at: http://www.qub.ac.uk/cms/.

Please note what our Chairman says in the Foreword about next year:
=91responding to the pressure to bear down on costs and also recognising =
that
people are increasingly comfortable with using the internet, our =
intention
is that from next year our Annual Report will be distributed on-line =
only
and no longer in hard copy, though an executive summary in hard copy =
will be
available on request=92.=20
If you would like to be sent a hard copy of this year=92s Annual Report =
please
contact: Christine.Johnston[at]librariesni.org.uk .

The front cover features the major digitisation project that we are =
engaged
in at the moment with Queen=92s University: Documenting Ireland: People,
Parliament and Migration=92 (DIPPAM). A launch event in the McClay =
Library
(QUB) is planned for Monday, 21 March.

Congratulations to our most recent group of Irish Migration Studies
students, due to graduate on Friday 10 December, including Richard =
Farquhar,
Jennifer McLernon, Hugh Ward and Theresa Flood.

Please also note that we plan to offer a new course, starting in =
September
next year in =91Irish Family, Local and Migration Studies=92.

The Tenth Annual Irish Migration Studies Reunion Lecture will be given =
on
Saturday 5 February at 11.00 am by Professor Marianne Elliot of =
Liverpool
University, author of The Catholics of Ulster (2000) and When God Took
Sides: Religion and Identity in Ireland =96 Unfinished Business (2009).
http://www.liv.ac.uk/irish/staff/elliott.htm
She will speak on =91Religion and Identity: A Belfast Historian=92s =
Journey=92. As
usual we look forward to welcoming back students of the course and =
friends
of the Centre, old and new.

Keynote speaker at next year=92s Literature of Irish Exile Autumn School =
on
Saturday 15 October will be Christopher Fitz-Simon, author of Eleven =
Houses:
a memoir of childhood (2007, Penguin). He will speak about his book and
about a recently discovered collection of emigrant letters.=20

This semester we have enjoyed having as a colleague Ms Eva Kovacs, a
doctoral student in migration studies at Corvinus University, Budapest, =
and
we wish her well on her return to Hungary.

With thanks for your continuing support and best wishes from all of us =
here
for the Christmas season and the New Year,

Yours sincerely,

Brian Lambkin
Director




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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Article, Blood, Shit, and Tears... Bernard MacLaverty's Cal
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ELH
Volume 77, Number 1, Spring 2010

Blood, Shit, and Tears
The Textual Reinscription of Sacrifice, Ritual, and Victimhood in =
Bernard
MacLaverty's Cal=20

Peter Mahon
The University of British Columbia

Abstract
This essay revisits Bernard MacLaverty's 1983 novel, Cal, in order to
re-read it as a site of textual ritual sacrifice. This sacrificial =
reading
draws on Ren=E9 Girard's landmark literary-anthropological explorations =
of the
dynamic relations between sacrifice, religion and violence in Violence =
and
the Sacred and Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World. The =
essay
argues (a) that Cal obsessively articulates and engages the Girardian
mechanisms of violence, religion and sacrifice, and (b) that Cal makes =
it
possible to theorize how literary texts "sacrificially" intervene in, =
modify
and reinscribe the dynamics of modern political violence.

FIRST PARAS
In this paper I wish to revisit Bernard MacLaverty's 1983 novel, Cal, in
order to suggest that it can be re-read as a site of what I will call
"textual ritual sacrifice."1 MacLaverty's novel is set during the period =
of
Northern Irish history known as "the Troubles," a name which refers to =
the
30 years of heightened paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland that =
began
in 1968 in the wake of the Unionist regime's response to the protests by =
the
Northern Irish Civil Rights Association and ended with the signing of =
the
Good Friday Agreement (GFA) on 10 April 1998.2 The book charts a short
period in the early adulthood of its eponymous protagonist, Cal =
McCluskey, a
young Republican and Catholic living in a predominantly Protestant
neighbourhood in an unnamed Northern Irish town.3 Cal is the getaway =
driver
for the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) Active Service Unit =
(ASU)
responsible for the death of Robert Morton, an off-duty Royal Ulster
Constabulary (RUC) member, at his rural home. The narrative unfolds
primarily as a complex psychological exploration of Cal's sense of guilt
over the death of Morton and his sexual desire for the murdered man's
librarian-wife, Marcella, who is of Italian-Irish heritage. As Cal gets
closer to Marcella, he appears to turn his back on the "childishness" of
political violence and evolves a vision of a victimized, apolitical =
middle
ground: "It was the people of Ulster who were heroic, caught between the
jaws of two opposing ideals trying to grind each other out of =
existence."4

I have chosen to focus on MacLaverty's novel here because it can be
considered as a paradigmatic Troubles text. It is one of the most widely
disseminated books that deals with the Troubles. In 1984, the book was =
made
into a successful film starring Helen Mirren and John Lynch and directed =
by
Pat O'Connor. The book itself is still in print in Britain and the =
United
States and it has been translated into German, French, Dutch, Swedish,
Norwegian, Danish, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Bulgarian and Greek. The
novel has also informed more recent examples of Northern Irish fiction; =
for
example, texts such as [End Page 71] Colin Bateman's Divorcing Jack =
(1995)
and Cycle of Violence (1995), Robert MacLiam-Wilson's Eureka Street =
(1996),
and Patrick McCabe's Breakfast on Pluto (1998) reinscribe both Cal's
conception of the plain people of Northern Ireland as a victimized
apolitical middle ground and its association of Northern Irish politics =
with
childishness.5 It is thus easy to see how Cal has helped shape the =
manner in
which the dynamics of political unrest in Northern Ireland have been
understood for the last couple of decades.

Nevertheless, it is precisely this apparently apolitical common ground =
that
my reading of Cal as a site of textual ritual sacrifice seeks to
reconsider...

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Subject: CFP, May 12th, 2011, Sherbrooke,
Quebec --- Origines et appartenances :
l=?Windows-1252?Q?=92identite_?=irlandaise du Quebec
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Dear all subscribers=2C

Here's a CFP for an Ireland & Qu=E9bec colloquium to be held on 12 May 2011=
in Sherbrooke=2C Qu=E9bec.

Best wishes=2C

SJ


APPEL =C0
COMMUNICATIONS

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Colloque

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Origines et
appartenances :=20

l=92identit=E9
irlandaise du Qu=E9bec

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Dans le cadre du 79=E8me congr=E8s de l=92ACFAS=20

Universit=E9 de Sherbrooke

Jeudi 12 mai 2011=20



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Comit=E9 organisateur

Linda Cardinal =AD=96 Simon Jolivet
=96 Isabelle Matte

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CONF=C9RENCIERS-INVIT=C9S=20

Prof. Roberto Perin=2C York
University

Prof. James Jackson=2C Trinity College Dublin

=20

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De 1815 =E0
1950=2C des millions d'Irlandais=2C catholiques et protestants=2C quitt=E8r=
ent leur
m=E8re patrie pour l'Oc=E9anie=2C la Grande-Bretagne=2C les =C9tats-Unis ou=
le Canada. Le
Qu=E9bec compta aussi parmi les destinations privil=E9gi=E9es par les immig=
rants
d'=C9rin. L'histoire de la diaspora irlando-qu=E9b=E9coise se distingue de =
celles connues
dans plusieurs autres pays et m=EAme dans les autres provinces canadiennes.=
La pr=E9sence francophone
fait de la province qu=E9b=E9coise un terrain unique d'=E9tude de la diaspo=
ra
irlandaise. Contrairement aussi =E0 ce qui se produisit en Ontario=2C les
immigrants irlandais s'installant au Qu=E9bec furent majoritairement de
confession catholique.=20

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Tout au long du XIX=E8me si=E8cle=2C les
Irlandais form=E8rent l'une des quatre plus importantes communaut=E9s de la
province=2C arrivant en nombre et en proportion derri=E8re les citoyens d'o=
rigine
fran=E7aise et anglaise=2C mais devant ceux d'origine =E9cossaise. Comment =
et quand les
Irlandais et Irlandaises s'int=E9gr=E8rent-ils =E0 la culture franco-cathol=
ique
majoritaire? Que peut-on retenir des =E9changes entre coreligionnaires
catholiques=2C en milieu rural ou urbain? Quelle fut la part jou=E9e par le=
s
Irlandais protestants au Qu=E9bec=2C ceux-ci formant quelque 35 % du contin=
gent
irlandais? De quelle fa=E7on l'arriv=E9e et l'int=E9gration des Irlandais e=
t
Irlandaises modifi=E8rent-elles la vie religieuse=2C politique=2C sociale=
=2C =E9conomique
et culturelle du Qu=E9bec=2C cet =C9tat du Nouveau Monde? Comment les ident=
it=E9s canadienne=2C
canadienne-fran=E7aise et qu=E9b=E9coise furent-elles construites et model=
=E9s par le
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tre les
exp=E9riences de la diaspora irlandaise au Qu=E9bec=2C au Canada=2C ou aill=
eurs dans le
monde? Que penser de la marque l=E9gu=E9e par l'Irlande=2C par ses conflits
religieux=2C politiques=2C militaires et identitaires=2C au sein de la soci=
=E9t=E9
qu=E9b=E9coise=2C de 1815 jusqu'=E0 2011?=20

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: The Pipe in selected cinemas nationwide
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Forwarded on behalf of
Richie O Donnell [mailto:richie.odonnell[at]gmail.com]=20
Subject: The Pipe in selected cinemas nationwide

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

As most of you may know, I have spent the last 4 years of my life
making a film called 'The Pipe' film on the community at the centre of
the Corrib Gas controversy. Having started covering the story as a
news cameraman in late 2006, I became immersed in the story after
having witnessed the dishonesty of reportage on the story. Over the
next 3 years a truly incredible story unfolded in front of my camera.
Please come to see it as it is in the cinemas for a very short space
of time and the weather has really hurt us at the box office on our
opening weekend, and if you can pass the word onto your friends and
colleagues it would be deeply appreciated. I have included links below
including a trailer.=20

Cinema times and venues are on
http://www.thepipethefilm.com/main-sect/cinema-showings/ and we are
showing in:
Dublin: Dundrum, IFI and Lighthouse
Cork: The Gate Cinema, Galway: Eye Cinema, Castlebar: Mayo Movie
World, Sligo: Model Theatre, Belmullet: =C1ras Inis Gluaire,
and Dungarvan, Gorey, Portumna, Waterville and many other venues for
more limited screenings.

The Pipe - Synopsis

In a remote corner of the West of Ireland sits Broadhaven Bay. It is
the perfect picture postcard, where the high cliffs of Erris Head and
the Stags of Broadhaven stand sentry at the mouth of the bay against
the mighty Atlantic, as if protecting the delicate golden sands of
Glengad beach and the tiny village of Rossport, which nestles behind
the dunes. However, this peaceful tranquility belies the turmoil that
lies beneath, and the unique nature of the coastline which has
sustained generations of farmers and fishermen, has also delivered to
Shell Oil the perfect landfall for the Corrib Gas Pipeline.
In the most dramatic clash of cultures in modern Ireland, the rights
of farmers over their fields, and of fishermen to their fishing
grounds, has come in direct conflict with one of the worlds most
powerful oil companies. When the citizens look to their state to
protect their rights, they find that the state has put Shell=92s right
to lay a pipeline over their own.

The Pipe is a story of a community tragically divided, and how they
deal with a pipe that could bring economic prosperity or destruction
of a way of life shared for generations.

Thanks a million to everybody for your help and support,

Yours Sincerely
Richie


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DyMSLuxuf_iE

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www.thepipethefilm.com
www.facebook.com/pages/The-Pipe-The-Film
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The+Pipe
+the+film
www.cbc.ca/video/#/News/Featured_Videos/ID=3D1590885523
www.thepipethefilm.com/main-sect/the-pipe-reviewed-by-screen-daily/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DyMSLuxuf_iE
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Inbhear
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Article,
From God's Work to Fieldwork: Charlotte Tonna's Evangelical
Autoethnography
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This is a highly abstracted meditation Charlotte Tonna's writings, but also
offers a useful summary of her life, and the research record so far.

ELH
Volume 77, Number 1, Spring 2010

From God's Work to Fieldwork: Charlotte Tonna's Evangelical Autoethnography
Bryan B. Rasmussen
ELH, Volume 77, Number 1, Spring 2010, pp. 159-194 (Article)

Subject Headings:
Charlotte Elizabeth, 1790-1846. Personal recollections.
Religious literature -- History and criticism.

Abstract:
This essay links the concept of autoethnography with spiritual conversion
narrative in order to argue that evangelical autobiography contains the
tools not only for spiritual but for cultural selffashioning. What I call
spiritual autoethnography was a way of imagining the self in relation to
knowledge that turns the (spiritual) self into the condition of (cultural)
knowledge. I argue this by way of the radical evangelical social critic
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, whose autobiography Personal Recollections: Life
of Charlotte Elizabeth (1841) harnessed the rhetorical contradictions of
evangelical conversion narrative to fashion a method for negotiating ethnic
and religious difference at the margins of Britain: in rural Ireland, but
also in its London proxy, the Irish slum of St. Giles'. Tonna's spiritual
autoethnography allowed for a form of textual selffashioning that
transcended the genre of spiritual autobiography to become a model for
cultural inquiry 'on the ground,' so to speak--the spiritual self-writer as
fieldworker.

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Article,
From The Uninvited to The Visitor: The Post-Independence Dilemma
Faced by Irish Women Writers
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The title 'From The Uninvited to The Visitor' seems more deep than it really
is - it combines two book titles. But the article offers an interesting
exploration of the ways in which ideologies in independent Ireland, and the
resulting dilemmas for women, were worked out in women's writing. And I
guess we have all written clunky first sentences...


Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies
Volume 31, Number 2, 2010

From The Uninvited to The Visitor: The Post-Independence Dilemma Faced by
Irish Women Writers

Abigail L. Palko
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Volume 31, Number 2, 2010, pp. 1-34
(Article)

Subject Headings:
Macardle, Dorothy, 1889-1958. Uninvited.
Brennan, Maeve. Visitor.
Politics and literature -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century.
Feminism and literature -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century.

In lieu of an abstract, here is a preview of the article.

The Irish fight for Independence from Great Britain began with an initially
promising bang for the women of the would-be nation. The 1916 Easter Rising
Proclamation's assumption of equality was unequivocal:

The Irish Republic is entitled to, and hereby claims, the allegiance of
every Irishman and Irishwoman. The Republic guarantees religious and civil
liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens, .
oblivious of the differences carefully fostered by an alien government.

In resolving to "[cherish] all the children of the nation equally," the
Proclamation identifies the aforementioned historical socioeconomic division
as the key inequality to be remedied. Embedded in this assertion is anxiety
over the divisive effects of unequal treatment. Article 3 of the 1922
Constitution of the Irish Free State Act promised: "Every person, without
distinction of sex, . shall within the limits of the jurisdiction of the
Irish Free State enjoy the privileges and be subject to the obligations of
such citizenship." The reiteration of equality is here tied to both benefits
and responsibilities and furthermore is explicitly conferred upon both men
and women. In addition to safeguarding personal liberties for women, these
statements also suggested women would have equal access to the public arena.
A study of the fate of Irish women's novels from this era rebuts the
assumption of increased agency and voice, however. A contemporary
reexploration of Dorothy Macardle and Maeve Brennan's writings highlights
aspects of Irish women's history and their literary contributions that have
been neglected, thereby offering a fuller picture of the Irish fight for
independence.

Throughout these years of fighting both a revolution and a civil war, Irish
women fought alongside their male counterparts. The twentieth-century fight
for

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: CFP Canada, Irishness, and Performance: Opening the Debate,
Irish Theatrical Diaspora Conference, Toronto
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Call for Papers:
Canada, Irishness, and Performance: Opening the Debate
The 8th Annual Irish Theatrical Diaspora Conference
Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, University of Toronto
April 15-16, 2011=20


Proposals Due: Dec 17, 2010
Submit Proposals to: ITD2011[at]gmail.com

The history of Irish diasporas in Canada is rich and diverse, and the =
Irish
have contributed significantly to the creation of Canadian cultural
phenomena, yet the study of Irish theatre in terms of Canadian diasporic
identities has not produced an equally rich body of literature.

With this scholarly lacuna in mind, this conference aims to address the
scope and character of Irish influence on performance in Canada, with
particular attention to the ideas of multi- and inter-culturalism.
=91Performance=92 in this case includes theatre, dance, spectacle, and =
all
aspects of the performing arts, as well as extra-theatrical activity =96 =
such
as parades and community gatherings =96 that foreground =91Irishness=92 =
in some
way. Canada has a well-established multicultural identity, whereas =
Ireland
is just beginning to negotiate a civil society that is constituted by a
variety of residents from different ethnic and racial backgrounds. How =
does
Irish performance fit into the Canadian cultural =91mosaic=92? =
Furthermore, what
kinds of Irish plays are being produced in Canada, and how do these
performances negotiate the relationship between Irish culture and =
Canadian
culture? How is =91Irishness=92 performed in Canada, and from this, what =
can we
learn about the mechanisms and character of cultural exchange? And =
finally,
what is the state of academic activity concerning Irish performance and
Canada?

Keynote speakers include Ann Saddlemyer (Professor Emeritus, University =
of
Toronto), Jackie Maxwell (Artistic Director of the Shaw Festival), and =
Lisa
Fitzpatrick (Director of Drama, University of Ulster - Derry).

Possible topics include:
=A0
- Irish theatre on Canadian stages
- Impact of Irish theatre professionals in Canada
- Irish influence on Canadian drama=20
- Multi-/inter-culturalism in Toronto and Irish performance
- Irishness and Canada=92s =91Celtic=92 east coast
- Performing Irish identity in Canadian society (drama and arts groups,
pubs, community centres).=20
- St. Patrick=92s Day parades in Canada
- Orange Lodges and performance in Canada
- Performing the Famine in Canada


Submit: Proposals (max. 250 words) along with a brief bio and contact
details.
Deadline: Friday, December 17, 2010
Contact: Please send proposals and CFP-related queries, preferably by =
email,
to the conference organizer:

Dr. Natalie Harrower
School of English
Trinity College Dublin
Dublin 2, Ireland
ITD2011[at]gmail.com=20


The conference organizers welcome applications from scholars at any =
stage of
their career, and particularly encourage graduate students to submit
proposals. For more information on Irish Theatrical Diaspora personnel,
conferences and publications, please visit =
www.irishtheatricaldiaspora.net=20

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: DPhil (PhD) scholarship in quantitative migration research,
Oxford University, International Migration Institute
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The International Migration Institute (IMI) at the University of Oxford
seeks to award a PhD scholarship commencing 1 October 2011 for the
'Determinants of International Migration' (DEMIG) research project.

Applicants for this doctoral programme should have a Master degree in
Economics or other quantitative social science (e.g. Demography or
Geography), preferably with distinction, and a first degree in a social
science, normally with first class honours or a 3.8 GPA or equivalent. A
sound background in econometric methods is expected.

The closing date for applications is 21 January 2011.

For more information, see:

http://www.imi.ox.ac.uk/about-us/vacancies-1/dphil-phd-position-in-quant
itative-migration-research

or

www.migrationdeterminants.eu

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=A0
'Minorit=E9s en vue'
=A0
A one day colloquium organised by the
Department of European Languages and Cultures, Lancaster University
=A0
Keynote speaker: Pap Ndiaye (EHESS), author of La condition noire:
Essai sur une minorit=E9 fran=E7aise (Calmann-L=E9vy, 2008).
=A0
Friday 6 May 2011
Lancaster University Conference Centre
=A0
Coinciding with the recent debate around French national identity is the
salience of certain ethnic or religious minorities, such as Roma or =
Muslim,
in public discourse. Yet the 'discovery' of such groups has the =
potential to
conceal the enduring presence they may have maintained in French society
over decades, or, indeed, centuries. This colloquium will reflect on the
conditions that bring certain minorities into, and out of, focus. It =
will
ask how France's minorities negotiate their intermittent (in)visibility
through literary and cinematic representations and consider how the =
latter
are linked to relations of power.
=A0
How are minorities constructed in different discursive fields and forms =
of
representation? When and under what conditions do minoritised subjects
become visible or invisible, and how is this process mediated by =
aesthetic
strategies? Can a group's successful 'assimilation' into the dominant
culture be consistent with minority status and what role does memory =
play in
maintaining that status? What, then, is a French majority, and how does =
it
define its cultural hegemony as a counterpoint to minority groups?
=A0
Some potential topics for discussion might include the following:
=A0
- Race and/or nation as indices of identification among minorities
=A0
- Literary/cinematic subjectivities: the transition from objects to =
subjects
of representation
=A0
- Issues of class, religion, gender and sexuality among minority groups
=A0
- The phenomena of apatridie and/or diaspora
=A0
- The transition from the discursive construction of 'immigrant' to that =
of
'minority'
=A0
- Triggers of cultural memory: 50 years of independence in Africa, the
expulsion of Roma from France, 80 years since the Exposition =
Coloniale...
=A0
- 'New' (for example, Algerian, Senegalese, Turkish) and 'old' (for =
example,
Armenian, Roma, Catalan) minorities
=A0
=A0
Please e mail a 250 word abstract and 100 word bio to Charlotte Baker
c.baker[at]lancaster.ac.uk and Greg Kerr g.kerr[at]lancaster.ac.uk by Monday =
28
February 2011, clearly marked 'DELC Colloquium'. Presenters will be =
invited
to speak for 20 minutes and papers may be presented in French or in =
English.
=A0
=A0
'Minorit=E9s en vue' is supported by the Yves-Hervouet Fund for =
Anglo-French
Relations
=A0

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"Text and Beyond Text in Irish Studies: New Visual, Material and Spatial
Perspectives". =20

Canadian Association for Irish Studies
Annual Conference
6 - 9 July 2011 MONTREAL
=A0
"Text and Beyond Text in Irish Studies: New Visual, Material and Spatial
Perspectives".=A0=A0=A0=20
=A0
Organizers: Michael Kenneally and Rhona Richman Kenneally
Call for Papers
HOSTED BY the
School of Canadian Irish Studies
Concordia University Montreal, Canada

Initially based primarily on text-based literary and historical
investigation, Irish Studies have increasingly been infused by resources =
and
methods derived from other disciplines.=A0 Explorations of visual
communication, of material culture and the built environment, and of
performance generate contrapuntal meanings to be considered alongside
textually derived narratives. Indeed, words (whether sung, spoken or
written), aside from their own function and inherent value in history =
and
culture, also serve as conduits to study Irish things, places, and
performances.

The premise of this conference is to encourage a flourishing dynamic =
between
the study of text-based materials and that of images, things, sounds,
tastes, movement, and other cultural and social markers, as a means of
offering new perspectives on Irish Studies. The Canadian Association for
Irish Studies, therefore, invites papers on any aspect of these =
disciplines.
Papers are also invited on other topics of interest to members of CAIS.
=A0
Please submit proposal by 17 JANUARY 2011 to irishsch[at]alcor.concordia.ca

Proposals should be approximately 250 words. Please send a brief (50 =
word)
bio. Please send any questions to the conference e-mail address.

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We don't hear much about English traditional dance, or - more important -
see much. In fact mostly you still have to go to special places on special
days to see the dance in its natural habitat. Of course the whole thing is
handled in the usual English ways - mocking Morris dancers seems to be as
much part of tradition as the actual dance.

I have long loved this kind of dance - I even wrote a play about it, a long
time ago, set in Lancashire. (That play was lost in Granada TV's
development hell.)

The invisibility of English traditional dance leaves other dance traditions
in our archipelago curiously isolated, without context. For example, in one
of the BBC television programmes linked below we hear of a tradition in the
north east of England which involves keeping the head, arms and upper body
quite still... And in the other film, name that tune as the dancers move
down the village street...

The two recent films can be still be viewed on the BBC web site, and will
certainly interest the specialists.

1.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wgrtr

Still Folk Dancing... After All These Years

'Young Northumbrian folk-singing siblings Rachel and Becky Unthank take a
journey around England from spring to autumn 2010 to experience its living
folk dance traditions in action.'

Yes, Unthank is an English family name...

2.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wmy5q

Come Clog Dancing: Treasures of English Folk Dance

'At the height of the industrial revolution in the last decades of the 19th
century there was a dance, now rarely seen, that resounded through the
collieries and pit villages of the north east of England - the clog dance.

For conductor and musician Charles Hazlewood, clog dance has become an
obsession and he plans to put it firmly back on the map by staging a mass
flashmob clog dance.'

Oddly the actual film does not do full justice to the flash mob element of
the project - which must have been delightful. Not enough cameras. But the
wonder of the web means that people who just happened to be in the audience
have put video of the event online. A video search for Newcastle clog dance
turns up much.

P.O'S.

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Hi Paddy,

Last spring New York University Press published *City Folk: English Country
Dance and the Politics of the Folk in Modern America* by Daniel J.
Walkowitz. This is the publisher's blurb:

------------------------------------------------------
This is the story of English Country Dance, from its 18th century roots in
the English cities and countryside, to its transatlantic leap to the U.S. i=
n
the 20th century, told by not only a renowned historian but also a folk
dancer, who has both immersed himself in the rich history of the folk
tradition and rehearsed its steps.

In *City Folk*, Daniel J. Walkowitz argues that the history of country and
folk dancing in America is deeply intermeshed with that of political
liberalism and the =91old left.=92 He situates folk dancing within surprisi=
ngly
diverse contexts, from progressive era reform, and playground and school
movements, to the changes in consumer culture, and the project of a
modernizing, cosmopolitan middle class society.
Tracing the spread of folk dancing, with particular emphases on English
Country Dance, International Folk Dance, and Contra, Walkowitz connects the
history of folk dance to social and international political influences in
America. Through archival research, oral histories, and ethnography of danc=
e
communities, *City Folk* allows dancers and dancing bodies to speak. From
the norms of the first half of the century, marked strongly by Anglo-Saxon
traditions, to the Cold War nationalism of the post-war era, and finally on
to the counterculture movements of the 1970s, *City Folk* injects the
riveting history of folk dance in the middle of the story of modern America=
.
---------------------------

I have recently been interested in how Elizabeth Burchenal used Irish
dancing as part of her broader interest in folk dancing in the 1920s.

Best wishes from New York,
Marion

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 3:32 AM, Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:

> We don't hear much about English traditional dance, or - more important -
> see much. In fact mostly you still have to go to special places on speci=
al
> days to see the dance in its natural habitat. Of course the whole thing =
is
> handled in the usual English ways - mocking Morris dancers seems to be as
> much part of tradition as the actual dance.
>
> I have long loved this kind of dance - I even wrote a play about it, a lo=
ng
> time ago, set in Lancashire. (That play was lost in Granada TV's
> development hell.)
>
> The invisibility of English traditional dance leaves other dance traditio=
ns
> in our archipelago curiously isolated, without context. For example, in
> one
> of the BBC television programmes linked below we hear of a tradition in t=
he
> north east of England which involves keeping the head, arms and upper bod=
y
> quite still... And in the other film, name that tune as the dancers move
> down the village street...
>
> The two recent films can be still be viewed on the BBC web site, and will
> certainly interest the specialists.
>
> 1.
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wgrtr
>
> Still Folk Dancing... After All These Years
>
> 'Young Northumbrian folk-singing siblings Rachel and Becky Unthank take a
> journey around England from spring to autumn 2010 to experience its livin=
g
> folk dance traditions in action.'
>
> Yes, Unthank is an English family name...
>
> 2.
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wmy5q
>
> Come Clog Dancing: Treasures of English Folk Dance
>
> 'At the height of the industrial revolution in the last decades of the 19=
th
> century there was a dance, now rarely seen, that resounded through the
> collieries and pit villages of the north east of England - the clog dance=
.
>
> For conductor and musician Charles Hazlewood, clog dance has become an
> obsession and he plans to put it firmly back on the map by staging a mass
> flashmob clog dance.'
>
> Oddly the actual film does not do full justice to the flash mob element o=
f
> the project - which must have been delightful. Not enough cameras. But
> the
> wonder of the web means that people who just happened to be in the audien=
ce
> have put video of the event online. A video search for Newcastle clog
> dance
> turns up much.
>
> P.O'S.
>

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Forwarded on behalf of
Alexandra Slaby

Dear Colleague,

It is my pleasure to draw your attention to the Call for Papers below
which may suit your research interests. May I ask you to forward it to
your team?

Hoping to see you in Caen, France, next year, I am looking forward to
hearing from you and in the meantime send you my warmest season's
greetings.

Best regards,
Alexandra Slaby
University of Caen, France

??After the Ball.? Cultural productions and practices in
Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland?

ERIBIA-GREI, University of Caen Lower Normandy, December 2 & 3, 2011

MRSH, Salle des Actes (SH 027)

The impact of the Celtic Tiger and the following recession on
cultural creation and practices opens a new area of investigation for
scholars in cultural history, cultural economy, sociology, art history
and media studies.
At conferences and advocacy events, the Irish Arts Council,
Department of Culture and cultural policy-makers directed considerable
efforts to reach out to public opinion, tourists, companies and the
Irish diaspora to raise awareness about the economic dimension of
culture in the country. Culture indeed generates wealth and
employment, and cutting public funding of culture would have negative
consequences on the economy. The economic justification has dominated
cultural discourse over the past few years, so that the cultural
process, ie artistic creation and reception by the public have been
almost totally excluded from public debate. The Arts Council is only
just beginning to investigate the living conditions of artists and the
social bonding potential of culture. Social sciences are also
beginning to research cultural practices.

The comparison with Northern Ireland will be welcome. The impact of
the recession on cultural funding and creation may be compared with
the situation in the Republic. Another =AB after =BB is also to be
investigated, through the impact of the Good Friday Agreement on
cultural practices and productions and the effective community bonding
that has taken place as a result of Northern Irish cultural policy.

Culture will be understood broadly, including not only the arts and
formal cultural practices such as the attendance of cultural
institutions but also cultural industries, and generally, as is the
case in the English-speaking world, all modes of expression which are
codified?design, fashion and culinary arts which are the
multi-sensorial translation offered in daily communion of a new, more
sophisticated and cosmopolitan self-perception on the part of the
Irish.

What remains after the ball? What trends do we see emerging in terms
of productions and practices? Papers may cover the following topics:
- Perceptions of actual or putative prosperity of cultural
sectors
- Contemporary artistic creation: literature, music, cinema,
architecture etc.
- Cultural institutions : attendance, evolutions of
museography
- Cultural tourism, festivals, marketing strategies
- Cultural industries
- Formal or informal cultural practices (purchase of
commercial cultural goods)
- Media (broadcasting, the press, the internet) as a critical
space

Proposals to be submitted to Alexandra Slaby
(alexandra.slaby[at]unicaen.fr) by June 15, 2011.

--=20
Dr Alexandra Slaby
Ma=EEtre de conf=E9rences en anglais
UFR LVE/Groupe de recherches en =E9tudes irlandaises
Bureau LE428 ou S3032
Universit=E9 de Caen/Basse-Normandie
Esplanade de la Paix BP 5186
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FRANCE

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From: Mike.Collins[at]ucc.ie [mailto:Mike.Collins[at]ucc.ie]=20

Dear Patrick

I wanted to alert you to a new radio documentary on JG Farrell.

The novelist J.G. Farrell - known to his friends as Jim - was drowned on =
August 11, 1979 when he was swept off rocks by a sudden storm while =
fishing in the West of Ireland. He was 44.

Forty years after it was first published, Troubles, by J G Farrell was =
announced in May 2010 as the winner of the Lost Man Booker Prize - a =
one-off prize to honour the books published in 1970, but not considered =
for the prize when its rules were changed.

Farrell, born in Liverpool of Irish descent , made up his mind to leave =
London and move to Ireland, a decision influenced by advice from his =
accountant and his doctor. Earnings for writers in the Irish Republic =
were tax-free, and both men, independently, pointed out that the =
financial cushion would be invaluable if - or, more likely, when - the =
newly discovered long-term effects of polio curtailed his ability to =
write. He moved to West Cork in March 1979. In a letter to Bridget =
O'Toole he wrote "I just got back from a rapid and exhausting trip to =
Cork and Dublin in the course of which I hope I bought a house - an old =
farmhouse on the very end of the peninsula between Dunmanus and Bantry =
Bays, on the side of a hill locally known as Letter Mountain. Ach, vot =
is zis? Ve haf heard of ze vine lakes and ze butter mountain, now ve are =
haffing a letter mountain? It's a splendid place, but very exposed, so =
if you need a wuthering you must come and stay. You must come and stay =
anyway as I'm hoping to buy a sailing dinghy and want you to give me =
lessons. Provided the sale goes through without a hitch I'm going to =
make a determined effort to settle down there. It's beyond Kilcrohane if =
you have a map. London already seems far away."

He only lived in West Cork for 149 days before he tragically drowned. On =
August 10th he wrote to his publisher, saying he hoped to deliver his =
new novel, The Hill Station , by the end of the year, "barring some =
unforeseen disaster". By the next day he was dead.

This brief, final, time in Ireland is the subject of the documentary, =
produced by Ciaran Cassidy, called JG Farrell: 149 Days in the Life Of, =
on RT=C3=89 Radio 1 (www.rte.ie) on Saturday, December 18th, at 6.05pm, =
repeated the following day at 7pm. It features neighbours, family and =
friends, including his brother Richard. It also interviews Pauline Foley =
an Englishwoman who was living near Bantry, recalls witnessing the =
drowning. "Farrell turned back, started to cast and slipped. I think it =
was more of a slip than the waves," she says. "He looked at me and he =
went under." Farrell's body was recovered a month later; he is buried in =
St James's Church of Ireland cemetery in Durrus.

JG Farrell in His Own Words Selected Letters and Diaries edited by =
Lavinia Greacen, ISBN 9781859184769, Sbk, =E2=82=AC19.95, is published =
by Cork University Press.




Regards


Mike

Publications Director

Cork University Press, Youngline Industrial Estate, Pouladuff Road, =
Cork, Ireland
Tel: 00 353 (0) 21 490 2980 Fax: 00 353 (0) 21 431 5329

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Web: www.irelandhouse.fas.nyu.edu
- - -
Assistant Professor - Faculty Fellow in Irish Literature Search 2011

Applications were being accepted for an appointment as Assistant
Professor/Faculty Fellow in the Irish and Irish-American=A0Studies =
Program in
NYU's College of Arts and Sciences.

The Irish Studies Program is located within Glucksman Ireland House, =
NYU's
Center for Irish and Irish-American Studies.

The appointment will begin, pending final budgetary and administrative
approval, in September 2011.=A0=20

This is a term appointment, renewable annually for up to three years.

The Faculty Fellow in Irish Studies should have received the Ph.D. no
earlier than September 1, 2006.=A0 In no cases will an appointment be =
made to
a candidate without the Ph.D.=A0=20

Teaching
The position of Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow in Irish Studies will
support our undergraduate Minor in Irish Studies, though we hope that
Fellows might also contribute to our MA Program in Irish and =
Irish-American
Studies.=A0 The Faculty Fellow will teach three courses per year (2/1 or =
1/2,
on the semester calendar), but will also be eligible to teach in either =
the
six-week Summer Sessions in New York or on our Summer in Dublin Program =
on
the campus of Trinity College, Dublin.

Field of Study
We welcome applications from qualified scholars in Modern Irish =
Literature
in any period from 1600 to the present.=A0 Applicants should familiarize
themselves with our curriculum and articulate in their application =
letter
how they might contribute to its delivery and development, and how their
contribution would advance an interdisciplinary Irish Studies =
program.=A0 We
are especially interested in scholars whose work is at the intersection =
of
Literature and other fields.

We share a concern, historical and theoretical, with how disciplines,
broadly conceived, are configured or re-configured by our work in Irish
Studies.=A0 A mark of our collective scholarly experience is that no =
orthodoxy
governs the shape or trajectory of our concerns, and we hope to welcome =
a
colleague who will broaden and deepen these, or others, in complement to =
our
collective work.

Application
This is an online application process via
www.nyuopsearch.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=3D50826=20
To apply, please upload:
=95 An application letter
=95 Curriculum Vitae
=95 Writing sample
=95 Names and email addresses of three referees
Referees will then be contacted for reference upload by the online =
system;
the system is also compatible with document management sites such as
Interfolio.

Materials must be submitted by February 1, 2011.
NYU is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

Enquiries
We encourage applicants to explore our website.=A0 Questions not =
satisfied by
materials on-line may be directed to Glucksman Ireland House Program
Coordinator Anne Solari.

The Search Committee Chair is Prof. John Waters.

Tips for using the online application system
=95 You must enter the names and email addresses of your referees before =
you
may upload any documents.=A0 Referees may be edited before you submit =
your
final application and they are notified of your request, but you must
remember to change them in advance of submission.
=95 Referees will not be contacted and may not upload references until =
you
submit your final application.=A0 Please keep this in mind in terms of =
the
deadline and turn around time for references.=A0 You will want to =
request your
references directly with referees in advance of official notification to
work with the hiring timeline.
=95 When using online document management/credentials services such as
Interfolio, please enter the credential service-supplied, =
reference-specific
email address instead of the referee's individual email address in the
referee contact field.

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Our attention has been drawn to the following...

It is Irish Diaspora-ish.

And it is nearly Christmas.

The book is also available through Amazon, and as an ebook on the usual
devices.

P.O'S.


Mousetrapped
A Year and A Bit in Orlando, Florida
Authored by Catherine Ryan Howard

Three big dreams, two Mouse Ears and one J-1 visa. What could possibly go
wrong in the happiest place on earth?

When Catherine Ryan Howard decides to swap the grey clouds of Ireland for
the clear skies of the Sunshine State, she thinks all of her dreams -
working in Walt Disney World, living in the United States, seeing a Space
Shuttle launch - are about to come true. Ahead of her she sees weekends at
the beach, mornings by the pool and an inexplicably skinnier version of
herself skipping around Magic Kingdom.

But not long into her first day on Disney soil - and not long after a
breakfast of Mickey-shaped pancakes - Catherine's Disney bubble bursts and
soon it seems that among Orlando's baked highways, monotonous mall clusters
and world famous theme-parks, pixie dust is hard to find and hair is
downright impossible to straighten.

The only memoir about working in Walt Disney World, Space Shuttle launches,
the town that Disney built, religious theme parks, Bruce Willis,
humidity-challenged hair and the Ebola virus, MOUSETRAPPED: A Year and A Bit
in Orlando, Florida is the hilarious story of what happened when one Irish
girl went searching for happiness in the happiest place on earth.


Publication Date:
Mar 19 2010
ISBN/EAN13:
1451522924 / 9781451522921
Page Count:
232
Binding Type:
US Trade Paper
Trim Size:
5.5" x 8.5"
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Related Categories:
Travel / United States / General

https://www.createspace.com/3436823

About the author:
CATHERINE RYAN HOWARD is an occasionally delusional twenty-something from
Cork, Ireland. As well as working in Walt Disney World, Catherine has been a
student journalist, administrated things in the Netherlands, cleaned tents
on a French campsite, established a handmade card company and answered
telephones in several different offices. Yes, several.

She is currently trying to get somebody - anybody? - to publish her first
novel, writing her second, daydreaming of a US Green Card and drinking way
too much coffee. She wants to be a NASA astronaut when she grows up.

www.catherineryanhoward.com
www.mousetrappedbook.com

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"(Re-)Imagining 'Return Migration': Language, concepts and contexts".

Session organisers: Anastasia Christou (Sussex) and Madeleine Hatfield (RHUL
and RGS-IBG). Sponsored by the Population Geography Research Group of the
RGS-IBG, for the annual conference of the Royal Geographic Society/Institute
of British Geographers. The conference will run from 31 August to 2
September 2011 at the Society and Imperial College in London.
The conference theme is "The Geographical Imagination" and I am attaching
our call for papers here which has also been uploaded onto the conference
website
www.rgs.org/AC2011

1st CFP RGS-IBG: (Re-)Imagining 'Return Migration'

1st CFP RGS-IBG Annual Conference, London 31 August - 2 September 2011
(Re-)Imagining 'Return Migration': Language, concepts and contexts Session
organisers: Anastasia Christou (Sussex) and Madeleine Hatfield (RHUL and
RGS-IBG). Sponsored by the Population Geography Research Group of the
RGS-IBG.

Return migration has increasingly become the subject of research that seeks
to go beyond previously taken-for-granted assertions of such mobilities as
straight forward due to the assumed familiarity of the destination. This
research has addressed the experience of moving to somewhere one has lived
before or to where one is thought to belong under a number of sub-headings
including not just return migration but repatriation, reflux or cyclical
migration, diasporic or ancestral return and homecomings. It has studied
migrants returning after a short time and after generations; as children,
adults and households; together and apart; from higher to lower and lower to
higher income countries; painfully, hopefully and forcefully.

This growing body of research, then, also has the potential to allow us to
(re-)imagine and (re-)think what 'return migration' is or could be; and to
(re-)consider how the words we use are not just terminology but active
constructs that affect the ways in which return migration is experienced,
understood and imagined. We therefore invite researchers of return migration
in different contextual and disciplinary settings to showcase their research
and present on the conceptualisation, application and documentation of
return migration as broadly defined. Questions explored by papers could
include (but are not limited to):

- What does the empirical research presented contribute to the development
of theories of return migration and what are the implications of this for
defining and understanding the concept?
- Is it important to have a separate set of terms for return migration? What
does this achieve/restrict?
- How important is the language we use to describe return migration? What
are the implications for research, policy and lived experiences?
- What words are used in what contexts and why are there
differences/similarities? Is this helpful in the understanding of return
migration?
- Are there alternative terms that should be considered and what would be
gained/lost through this?
- How has return migration been examined by various disciplines or in an
interdisciplinary context? What methodological innovations has the study of
return migration contributed?

Please submit proposed paper abstracts (c. 250 words) for consideration of
inclusion in the session to organisers Anastasia Christou
(A.Christou[at]sussex.ac.uk) and Madeleine Hatfield
(madeleine.e.hatfield[at]gmail.com) by 4 February 2011.

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For more information on the announcement below, contact
Dr Judith Misrahi-Barak
Associate Professor, English Department
Academic Coordinator of the Programs of the English-Speaking World =
Office of
International Relations (207) Tel +33 4 67 14 21 03 University Paul =
Valery -
Montpellier III Route de Mende
34199 Montpellier Cedex 5 France
http://www.univ-montp3.fr/ri/
Email: judith.misrahi-barak[at]univ-montp3.fr


Diasporas, Cultures of Mobilities, =93Race=94

EMMA (Etudes Montpelli=E9raines du Monde Anglophone, Universit=E9 =
Paul-Val=E9ry,
Montpellier 3, France) in partnership with CAAR (Collegium for
African-American Research); the Department for Continuing Education (the
University of Oxford); the Centre for Migration, Policy and Society =
(COMPAS,
the University of Oxford); the Institut de Recherche Intersite Etudes
Culturelles (IRIEC, Universit=E9 Paul-Val=E9ry, Montpellier 3); the
International Institute of Migration (IMI, the University of Oxford); =
the
Centre de Recherches Litt=E9raires et Historiques de l=92Oc=E9an Indien =
(CRLHOI,
University of La R=E9union); the Centre of South Asian Studies (CSAS,
University of Edinburgh, UK); Wake Forest University (North Carolina, =
USA)
and Wesleyan University (USA), is organizing a series of four events =
around
the notions of race and diaspora.

Co-convenors: Dr Sally Barbour (Wake Forest University, USA), Dr David
Howard (Oxford University, UK), Dr Thomas Lacroix (IMI, Universit=E9 =
d=92Oxford,
RU), Dr Judith Misrahi-Barak (Montpellier 3, France) and Pr Claudine =
Raynaud
(Montpellier 3, France).


Over the last decade =93Diaspora Studies=94 have become a full-fledged
discipline: numerous conferences have taken place, specialized =
publications
have emerged and centers have been created around this field of =
research.
The aim of our initiative is to identify and assess the different =
evolutions
of this field to better understand: 1) how socio-economic and political
changes have affected diasporic communities; 2) how literature and the =
arts,
the social sciences and cultural studies have seized that question. This
reflection entails a redefinition of terms and concepts, some of which =
have
at times been used in a loose way, and the confrontation of different, =
but
not necessarily divergent, perspectives.

1. Preparatory Symposium: Diasporas and Cultures of Migrations, June =
20-23,
2011, Universit=E9 Paul-Val=E9ry =97 Montpellier 3

In a global and increasingly trans-national context, numerous terms, =
such as
=93diaspora,=94 =93migration,=94 =93displacement,=94 =93dispersion,=94 =
refer to populations
of refugees, displaced persons, exiles, migrants and immigrants. Why has =
one
term been preferred to another at a certain period of time or in a =
certain
place? Why has one concept dominated when another was rejected? What are =
the
specificities of and the common points between these diaporas? =
Specialists
of these questions from various disciplines (anthropology, sociology,
political science, literature, comparative literature), will be asked to
assess the state of the debate in their field, to share reflections and =
to
put them in dialogue in round tables and discussions in preparation for =
the
following event.


It will be our pleasure to welcome:

Pr Deepika Bahri (Emory University, USA) ; Pr Shaul Bassi (Ca' Foscari
University of Venice, Italy) ; Pr Crispin Bates (Director of the Centre =
for
South Asian Studies, Edinburgh University, RU) ; Pr. Elleke Boehmer =
(Oxford
University) ; Pr A=EFda Boudjikanian (chercheur ind=E9pendant) ; Dr =
Louise
Cainkar (Marquette University, USA) ; Pr Bella Brodzki (Sarah Lawrence, =
USA)
; Pr Robin Cohen (Directeur de l=92IMI, Oxford University, RU); Dr =
Corinne
Duboin (CRLHOI, Universit=E9 de La R=E9union) ; Pr Karen Fog Olwig =
(University
of Copenhagen, Danemark) ; Pr Kathleen Gyssels (University of Antwerpen,
Belgique); Dr Indira Karamcheti (Wesleyan University, USA); Dr Thomas
Lacroix (IMI, University of Oxford, RU); Pr Benedicte Ledent (University =
of
Liege, Belgium) ; Dr Typhaine Leservot (Wesleyan University, USA) ; Pr
Fran=E7oise Lionnet (UCLA, USA); Dr Anthony Mangeon (IRIEC, Montpellier =
3,
France) ; Pr Adlai Murdoch (Universiy of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA) =
;
Pr Ato Quayson (Directeur du Centre for Diaspora and Transnational =
Studies,
University of Toronto, Canada) ; Pr Alan Rice (University of Central
Lancaster, RU) ; Pr Mireille Rosello (The University of Amsterdam, =
Pays-Bas)
Pr Ashraf H. Rushdy (Wesleyan University, USA); Pr Ronnie Scharfman =
(Prof.
Emerita, Purchase College, USA) ; Pr Shu-mei Shih (UCLA, USA) ; Dr Eric
Soriano (Centre de recherches sociologiques et politiques de Paris, =
CRESPPA;
UMR 7217, =C9quipe CSU) ; Pr Khachig T=F6l=F6lyan (Wesleyan University, =
USA) ; Pr
Janet Wilson (University of Northampton, UK); Pr Louise Yelin (Purchase
College, USA).

2. International conference: Diasporas and =93Race=94, October 25-27, =
2012, Wake
Forest University (North Carolina, USA)

Diasporas have always had to negotiate new articulations of =
ethnic/racial
identities while individuals had to make do with contexts already =
defined by
certain types of racial relations and certain evolutions of racial
transnational references. The emergence of new racisms and of new =
racialized
identities reconfigures class hierarchies, which often results in =
violence
against migrants. Does the prism of diaspora allow for a clearer
conceptualization of the concept of =93race=94
as a socio-historical construction and a surface of projection that =
depends
on context? How can the concept of =93race=94 be imposed, but also how =
have
populations appropriated it? What role does the mediation of art and
literature play in these evolutions? A call for papers will be handed =
out in
the Fall 2011.

3. International conference: African-Americans, =93Race=94 and Diaspora, =
June
13-15, 2013, University Paul-Val=E9ry, Montpellier 3

The diverse uses of =93diaspora=94 have helped to redefine and renew the =
field
of =93African American Studies=94 and to rethink African American =
identity in
relation to a subject more broadly defined as both racialized and =
diasporic.
The reflection on =93race,=94 central to the field, will be articulated =
with
that of diaspora to envision the links, the breaking points and the
articulations between the two notions.
Participants will be asked to interrogate this redefinition of =
=93African
American Studies=94 and to formulate the questions and the new objects =
of
study that this transformation has generated. Conversely, what has been =
the
impact of =93African American Studies=94 on the fields of =93Diaspora =
and Race
Studies=94 or =93Postcolonial and Race Studies=94? The term =
=93post-race=94
stands at the core of heated debates among scholars of the field. Have =
the
different disciplinary fields (social sciences and the humanities) =
vested
interests in preserving one concept over another through such and such a
paradigm or certain combinations? Finally, are the arts (literature, the
visual arts, popular culture, the Internet) privileged markers of these
evolutions: notions of avant-garde, of globalization, utopias? A call =
for
papers will be handed out in 2012.

4. Concluding symposium: October 25-26, 2013, Department for Continuing
Education, University of Oxford, UK

With its three international centres of research addressing matters of
diaspora and migration, the University of Oxford will be the ideal venue =
for
the final meeting to take place. It will attract a wide international
audience and provide an important point at which to disseminate the =
initial
findings and conclusions for the programs as a whole.

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Subject: CFP Travelling Towards Home,
SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies, June 2011
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SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies/MA in Travel and Tourism,
Department of Anthropology
=A0
Call for Papers
=A0
Travelling Towards Home:
mobilities and home making
=A0
A 2 day conference proposed by the SOAS Centre for Migration and =
Diaspora
Studies and the Masters degree in Travel and Tourism.=20
=A0
23-24 June 2011
=A0
This conference aims to stimulate the use of notions of home and home =
making
as ethnographic and theoretical lenses through which to view aspects of =
the
relation between global migrations (of all kinds, including tourism) and
trans-national identities.=20
=A0
Substantial areas of contemporary social science, particularly =
anthropology,
reflect a world shaped by migrants, tourists, and others who are
increasingly crossing state, national, and other borders, who are living =
at
the intersections of the local, national, and global, and thus who are =
also
setting up trans-national homes. This is one of the contexts in which
Rapport and Overing (2007) identify home as a =91key concept=92 in =
social
anthropology central to questions of identity.=A0 They argue that, given =
a
world shaped by migration and mobilities, both concepts (home and =
identity)
need defining in a way that =93transcends traditional definitions in =
terms of
locality, ethnicity, religiosity, and/or nationality and are sensitive =
to
allocations of identity which may be multiple, situational, individual, =
and
paradoxical=94 (176).=20
=A0
Throughout the 1990s and 2000s there has been a consistent stream of
writings=A0 on the theme of the relation between mobility and the idea =
of home
which have moved beyond traditional anthropological boundaries: Mack =
(1991)
and Bammer (1992) on the theoretical possibilities of the term home in a
globally mobile world, Robertson=92s (1994) collection of travellers=92 =
tales
about displacement and loss of home, Kain (1997) and Kheter (2001) on
leaving home in South Asia and Lebanon respectively, Levitt and Waters
(2002) on how migration has challenged traditional meanings of home, =
Long
and Oxfield (2004) on refugees and ideas of home, Walters (2005) on home =
and
diasporas in black writing, and others. However, Aguilar=92s (2002:24)
contention that=A0 =93ubiquitous in the migration literature, =91home=92 =
and
=91family=92 are words that appear self-evident but, on reflection, =
signal a
domain of problematic assumptions, methodological complexities, and
hegemonic discourses and ideologies .. magnified by processes of =
movement
and displacement=94 still has considerable traction today.=20
=A0
This conference thus sets out to respond both to the considerable and
growing general interest in the relation between mobilities and ideas of
home but also to the uneven and arguably thin engagement with the field
within the social sciences. We thus invite contributions to the topic =
that
would help generate a research framework capable of grasping the =
theoretical
and analytical possibilities that the relation between home and mobility
promises.=20
=A0
Aguilar, FV, 2002 At Home in the World? Filipinos in global migrations,
Philippine Migration Research Network.=20
Bammer, A. 1992, =93Editorial=94, New Formations: Journal of
Culture/Theory/Practice (Issue on =93The Question of Home=94), 2:2.=20
Kain, G. (ed) 1997, Ideas of Home: Literature of Asian migration, East
Lansing: Michigan State University Press.=20
Khater, AF. 2001, Inventing Home: Emigration, gender, and the middle =
class
in Lebanon 1970-1920, Berkeley, University of California Press.
Levitt, P. and MC Waters, 2002, The Changing Face of Home, New York, =
Russell
Sage.=20
Long, LD and E. Oxfeld (eds), 2004, Coming Home: Refugees, migrants, and
those who stayed behind, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press. =

Mack, A. (ed) 1991, Home: A place in the world, (Special Edition of =
Social
Research, 58:1.
Rapport, N. and J.Overing, 2007, Social and Cultural Anthropology: The =
key
concepts, London, Routledge.=20
Robertson, G. et al (eds) 1994, Travellers=92 Tales: Narratives of home =
and
displacement, London: Routledge.=A0=20
Walters, W. 2005, At Home in Diaspora: Black International Writing,
Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press.=20
=A0
We welcome proposals from across the social sciences.
=A0
Proposals should be no more than 250 words and sent to Tom Selwyn
(ts14[at]soas.ac.uk) and Parvathi Raman (pr1[at]soas.ac.uk) by January 15th.