Programme
Conference:
Diaspora as a Resource:
Comparative Studies in Strategies, Networks and Urban Space
04-06 June 2010, Hamburg
Preliminary Programme
Friday, 4th June 2010: Key notes
15:00 | arrival | |
16:00 | addresses of welcome | |
16:45 | Waltraud Kokot "Introduction" |
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17:30 | Khachig Tölölyan "Diaspora, Dispersion, and the Contingency of Transnational Communities" |
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18:15 | Janet Tai Landa "Economic Success of Ethnically Homogeneous Middleman Diasporas in the Provision of Club Goods: The Role of Culture, Religion, Identity, and Ethnic Boundaries" |
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19:00 | announcements | |
19:15 | end |
Saturday, 5th June 2010
09:00 | Christian Giordano "Networks and Corporate Groups: Social Organization of the Chinese Diaspora in the Straits of Malacca – the Case of Penang" |
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09:30 | Maja Korac-Sanderson "Ethnic Entrepreneurship, Transnational Strategies and Incorporation: Chinese in Serbia" |
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10:00 | Ina Baghdiantz McCabe "Collaboration and Competition between Diaspora Entrepreneurial Networks in the Early Modern Period" |
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10:30 | discussion: Waltraud Kokot | |
12:00 | >> lunch break << | |
13:00 | Milena Benovska-Sabkova "Social Networks and Identity: The Russian Diaspora in Sofia" |
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13:30 | Eftihia Voutira "The Pontic Greek Post-Soviet Diaspora Becoming European" |
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14:00 | discussion: Astrid Wonneberger | |
15:00 | >> coffee break << | |
15:30 | Bernhard Fuchs / Max Leimstättner "Researching Embeddedness. Film and Music in Different Immigrant Communities of Vienna" |
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16:00 | Hauke Dorsch "The Cultural Economics of Jaliya – Three Generations of West African Musicians Touring the Diaspora" |
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16:30 | discussion: Erwin Schweitzer | |
17:30 | announcements | |
17:45 | end |
Sunday, 6th June 2010
09:00 | Flip Lindo "Diaspora Against Dispersion: The Strivings for Visibility of a Transnational Religious Movement in Amsterdam" |
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09:30 | Rena Molho "Salonica - a Homeland to the Sephardic Diaspora" |
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10:00 | discussion: Roland Mischung | |
11:00 | >> lunch break << | |
11:30 | Freek Colombijn "The Politics of Urban Space: Racial Segregation or Class Segregation in Colonial Indonesia" |
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12:00 | Christine Avenarius "Urban Spaces and Immigrant Places: Networks of Taiwanese Communities in Southern California" |
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12:30 | discussion: Julia Pauli | |
13:30 | >> coffee break << | |
14:00 | final discussion | |
15:00 | end | |
16:00 | Guided city tour: "Hamburg as a Diaspora City" A diasporic stroll through Hamburg with Ingolf Goritz (M.A.) |
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17:30 | end |