Session Description:
Co-sponsored by the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia and the Africana Studies Program. With the participation of the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, Glucksman Ireland House, 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.
Pre-Arrival Instructions:
Please complete the following items by the dates indicated below:
Submit a biography and headshot for use in website publicity to jordan.center.workstudy@gmail.com by 3:00 PM EST on Wednesday, April 10, 2013.
Complete the Jordan Center Media Release Form and email to jordan.center.workstudy@gmail.com by 3:00 PM EST on Wednesday, April 10, 2013.
RSVP to jordan.center.workstudy@gmail.com and confirm attendance at the Friday, April 26th dinner by 3:00 PM EST on Wednesday, April 10, 2013.
Read and consider the papers submitted by your colleagues. Papers will be uploaded and available on the public Russia and the Africans page on the Jordan Center website at: http://jordanrussiacenter.org/event/russia-and-the-africans/. Please make a note that your work will be accessible by the larger public as a part of your participation in this conference. 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.
Format:
Participants are asked to submit their full-length papers by April 10, 2013 to the Jordan Center administrator (jordan.russia.center@nyu.edu). Each panelist will speak for approximately 20 minutes about his / her contribution, after which discussants (to be announced) will facilitate conversation among the panelists and audience.
Speakers:
Allison Blakely, Boston University
Constantine Katsakioris, Paris
Anne Lounsbery, NYU
Dinner:
TBD
