Wednesday 27/10/2010
18.00 Reception with Inaugural Addresses
19.30 Reception
Thursday 28/10/2010
Section I
Cultural Encounters - Commodity Chains - Labor Migration: World Regions
9.00 – 9.30
Matthias Middell (Leipzig): Opening remarks
Commodity Chains, Migration and Cultural Encounters - Approaches in the Writing of Global History
9.30 – 11.00
Panel 1 (Convener: Markus-Michael Müller, Leipzig)
A Global culture of urban social control? Latin America, Africa and Europe in comparative perspective
11.30 – 13.00
Panel 2 (Convener: Elisabetta Porcu, Leipzig)
Commodification of religions in Japan and Africa
15.00 – 17.00
Panel 3 (Convener: Matthias Middell, Leipzig)
Migration and Portals of Globalisation
17.30 – 19.00
Round Table: Area Studies in an Age of Globalisation: Rethinking Intellectual and Institutional Tradition
Section II
Transnationalities - Transidentities - Hybridities - Diasporisation
9.00 – 9.45
Manuela Consonni (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Is the concept of ‘Diaspora’ changed after WW II?
9.45 – 10.30
Alfonso de Toro (Universität Leipzig): Translatio 'Performative Diasporas' and Hybridity in the Globalization
10.30 – 11.15
Michael Rössner (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien): Translating Diaspora
11.30 – 12.15
Teófilo Altamirano Rúa (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú): Remittances and local development in Mexico and Peru
12.15 – 13.00
Wai Chee Dimock (Yale University, New Haven): Many Islams: Lower Manhattan to Paul Bowles’ Morocco
15.00 – 15.45
Michelle Habell-Pallán (University of Washington, Seattle): Transnational Politics of Representation in Post-911 Latino Music
15.45 – 16.30
Crister Garrett (University of Leipzig): Latino Voters and the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election: Evidence of an Emerging Transcultural Americas?
17.30 – 19.00
Round Table: Area Studies in an Age of Globalisation: Rethinking Intellectual and Institutional Tradition
Friday 29/10/2010
Section I
Cultural Encounters - Commodity Chains - Labor Migration: World Regions
9.00 – 11.00
Panel 4 (Convener: Nadine Sieveking, Leipzig)
Whose culture? Migrations and mutations of performance
11.30 – 13.00
Panel 5 (Conveners: Martin Heckel, Leipzig / Md. Noor Un Nabi, Leipzig)
Transnationality and law in global commodity chains
15.00 – 16.30
Panel 6 (Convener: Geert Castryck, Leipzig)
Cultural encounters and the generative force of misunderstanding
Section II
Transnationalities - Transidentities - Hybridities - Diasporisation
9.00 – 9.45
Amaryll Chanady (University of Montreal): The flâneur takes the metro: the intercultural production of locality in the global city
9.45 – 10.30
Brad Epps (Harvard University): Memory (De)colonized: Donato Ndongo, Equatorial Guinea, Spain, and the Trans-Atlantic
10.30 – 11.15
Dieter Ingenschay (University of Humboldt of Berlin): (Post)Coloniality – Migration – Literature, in Spain
11.30 – 12.15
Cornelia Sieber (University of Leipzig): Strategies of writing back in narrations of illegal migration to Spain
12.15 – 13.00
Gabriele Pisarz-Ramírez (University of Groningen): I suspect we got lost while crossing the border: Canadian Latino/a Writers and Latino Studies
15.00 – 15.45
Christopher Larkosh (University of Massachussetts): Writing ‘Across the Current’ of Transnational and Border Studies
15.45 – 16.30
Reda Bensmaia (Brown University): Gilles Deleuze borderline(s)