3rd Global Conference
Diasporas: An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference
Sunday 1st December 2019 – Monday 2nd December 2019
Prague, Czech Republic
FINAL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
29/11/2019
Sunday 1st December 2019
08:30 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 09:30 Welcome and Opening Words
09:30 – 10:30 Session 1: Roundtable: Tracing Stories of a Heritage Language: Personal Accounts of Diasporic Experience
Ana Jovanovic
Ana Kojadinovic
Alexandra Portmann
10:30 – 11:00 Tea/Coffee
11:00 – 12:30 Session 2: The State, Networks, and IDPs (joint Migrations-Diasporas session)
Chair: Farzad Salahshour
The Unfaded Political Boundaries: Irreconcilability of State Sovereignty and International Responsibility to Protect Internally Displaced Persons
Aditi Singh
Nasaan Si Nanay?: A Phenomenological Analysis of Household-level Disaster Management in Pama Sawata, Caloocan, Philippines
Claudine Joyce Gabur
Understanding the Emergence of a Social Enterprise by Highly Skilled Migrants: The Case of Honduras Global Europa
Ingrid Fromm
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Session 3: Belonging and the Challenge of Inclusion (joint Migrations-Diasporas session)
Chair: Efrat Tzadik
Towards a Common Theory of Second-Generation Assimilation: Comparing United States and European Studies on Education and Labor Market Integration
Kacper Grass
Becoming “Native”: A Performance in Immigrant Narratives
Laura Duncan
Avowed or Ascribed Identity? The Homogenization of the African Diaspora in Europe
Chinta Musundi-Beez
15:30 – 15:45 Tea/Coffee
15:45 – 17:45 Session 4: Assistance, Settlement, Wellness (joint Migrations-Diasporas Session)
Chair: Sophia Pandya
Varied Settlement Programming in Western Canada and Settlement Agencies’ Responsiveness
Katerina Palova and Cesar Suva
Public Service Provision for Syrian Refugees in Turkey: Perspectives, Prospects and Challenges
Emrah Atar
How Sport Can Be An Effective Tool to Promote Community Cohesion and Integration in the UK and Internationally
Helen Vost
The Bambisanani Partnership: Using the Power of Sport to Change Lives in one of South Africa’s Poorest Regions
David Geldart
17:45 – 18:00 End of Opening Day Cross Panel Issues, Discussion and Consolidation
18:00 Wine and Drinks Reception
Monday, 2nd December 2019
09:00 – 10:30 Session 5: Diaspora and Place (panel)
Chair: Ana Jovanovic
The Place of Placism
Hazel T. Biana
Locating Place Attachment in the Landscape of Broader Cognitive Science
Adrienne John Galang
On the Logic of Placist Stereotypes
Jeremiah Joven Joaquin
10:30 – 11:00 Tea/Coffee
11:00 – 12:30 Session 6: Representation, Narration, Language
Chair: Jeremiah Joven Joaquin
Negotiating ‘Home’ Borders: Syrian and Palestinian Syrian Artists in Europe
Ruba Totah
English, like me (Impact of Intersectionalities)
Patience Adamu
Eastern Bloc Diasporas in Newfoundland: Home-Region Folklore in the Host-Region
Mariya Lesiv
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Session 7: The Politics of Identity (joint Diasporas-Migration Session)
Chair: Tina Engels-Schwarzpaul
Contemporary Hegemony: A Rethink of Transnational Long-distance Democratic Participation
Njikang Kennedy Ebang
The Growing Role of the Indian Diaspora in the Assembly Elections
Eva Loreng
My milkshake!
Charlene Clempson
15:30 – 16:00 Tea/Coffee
16:00 – 17:30 Session 8: Reimagining Identity (joint Migration-Diasporas session)
Chair: Hazel T. Biana
Strategies of Acculturation and Cultural Integration of Jewish and non-Jewish Migrants in Brussels
Efrat Tzadik
“I Feel Threatened By My Very Identity,” or Are Americans Free to Live Outside the United States?
Laura Snyder
Making Home In-Between: Relieving the Conflicts of One and Other Through Negotiations of Spatiality
Shima Rezaei Rashnoodi
17:30 – 17:45 End of Day 2 Cross Panel Issues, Discussion and Consolidation
17:40 – 18:00 Project Development, Closing Thoughts, Photographs and Goodbyes