Pre-Arrival Instructions:
Please complete the following items by the dates indicated below:
Complete the Jordan Center Media Release Form and email to jordan.center.workstudy@gmail.com by 4:00 PM EST on Monday, January 28, 2013.
Read and consider the papers submitted by your colleagues and linked in the segment titled "'Origins, Authenticities' Session Papers" below these instructions.
RSVP to jordan.center.workstudy@gmail.com and confirm attendance at one or both dinners by 5:00 PM EST on Friday, January 25, 2013.
The Diasporas Project:
Sponsored by the Glucksman Ireland House and the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. With the participation of the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, and the Department of History.
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.
'Origins, Authenticities' Session Papers:
Diner, Hasia (NYU): "How did the Jewish 'Diaspora' become a Diaspora?"
Galeotti, Mark (NYU): "Dons of the Diaspora"
Gomez, Michael (NYU): "Asked Juliet, 'What's in a Name'?"
Knight, Nathaniel (Seton Hall): The Three Circles of Russianness
Sterling, Cheryl (NYU): From Yoruba to Nago
Waters, John (NYU): TBD
'Origins, Authenticities' Schedule:
31 January 2013
2:30 PM – 6:00 PM EST
Presentations & Discussion
Yanni Kotsonis, Jordan Center | Welcome Remarks
Kevin Kenny, Boston College | Session Introduction
Nathaniel Knight, Seton Hall
John Waters, NYU
Hasia Diner, NYU
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM EST
Dinner
Cornelia Street Café | 29 Cornelia Street New York, NY 10014
1 February 2013
2:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Presentations & Discussion
Mike Gomez, NYU
Mark Galeotti, NYU
Cheryl Sterling, NYU
Fred Cooper, NYU
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM EST
Dinner
Otto Pizzeria | 1 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003
Accommodations:
Hotel: Washington square HotelAddress: 103 Waverly Place, New York, NY 10011Phone Number:
