Pre-Arrival Instructions:
Please complete the following items by the dates indicated below:
Submit a biography and headshot to jordan.center.workstudy@gmail.com by 3:00 PM EST on Friday, March 1, 2013.
Complete the Jordan Center Media Release Form and email to jordan.center.workstudy@gmail.com by 3:00 PM EST on Tuesday, February 26, 2013.
RSVP to jordan.center.workstudy@gmail.com and confirm attendance at the Friday, March 15th dinner by 3:00 PM EST on Tuesday, February 26, 2013.
Read and consider the papers submitted by your colleagues. Papers will be uploaded and available on the public Spaces of Movement page on the Jordan Center website at: http://jordanrussiacenter.org/event/spaces-of-movement/. Please make a note that your work will be accessible by the larger public as a part of your participation in this project. Please place a disclaimer or guidelines for use statement at the start of your paper prior to submission if you feel it is necessary. The Jordan Center will not be adding one on your behalf and will upload papers as PDF version of the format in which they were submitted.
Diasporas Project Description:
Sponsored by the the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies and the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. It makes sense to consider that people move about in spaces as a matter of course, in ways that defy conventional boundaries of nation and culture. Studies that bring us from China to western Eurasia consider these spaces as supra-national and perfectly normal, until nation-states make them seem abnormal. The same applies to multinational Russia itself, as the old Empire, as the USSR, and as the former Soviet Union where very many people were born in a country now called something else.
The Diasporas Project is a series organized by the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia in spring 2013. It is part of the Center’s inaugural year and we are grateful to the many units around NYU that have been offering help and guidance. Sessions are co-organized with Ireland House (31 January – 1 February), Kevorkian (14 – 15 March), and Hebrew and Judaic Studies (25 - 26 April).
The overarching purpose of the project is twofold: to consider the shared characteristics and shared assumptions that underpin the idea of a diaspora, and in the process erode our parochialisms; and to better grasp what is at stake and what is assumed when we cast movement as a diaspora rather than say an emigration, a migration, sex trafficking, slavery, or a flow of refugees. The project in no way aims to settle these questions one way or another; rather it aims to address them intelligently and forthrightly, as a guide to students and colleagues.
Format:
Participants are asked to submit their full-length papers by February 26, 2013 to the Jordan Center administrator (jordan.russia.center@nyu.edu). Each panelist will speak for approximately 10 minutes about his / her contribution, after which discussants (to be announced) will facilitate conversation among the panelists and audience.
Location:
Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
50 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012
Session Schedule
15 March 2013
2:30 – 6:00 PM EST
Spaces of Movement
Zvi Benite, NYU
Hijra and Diaspora: Diasporic Islam and Perceptions of the "Emperor of China" Under the Qing Empire
Eliot Borenstein, NYU
"Our Home is Russia": Global Russians, Moving Bodies, and Post-Soviet Entropy
Philippa Hetherington, Harvard
Archives of Mobility: Theorizing Clandestine Migration in Late Imperial Russia
Willard Sunderland, Cincinnati
Catherine’s Dilemma: Resettlement and Power in Tsarist Russia, 1500s-1914
Dinner:
Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street, New York, NY 10014
