Study Day: Diasporas and their Homelands - Programme
This study day is dedicated to a topic which concerns students of history and present-day affairs alike. It is dedicated to those peoples and communities in Asia and Africa who live in a country which is not their home (imagined or true). In social and historical studies, these communities are often termed ’diasporas’. The Study Day in question will seek to advance our knowledge on the matter both in empirical and in theoretical ways. In particular, it will address the issue of the complex ideological as well as material interrelationships between diasporas and their homelands. We will thereby seek to take the study of diaspora out of the often found pre-occupation with in-situ studies and rather reflect on the mutual influences and movements that go back and forth between the two poles.
The Study Day will start with a fresh look at the Judeo-Christian paradigm and consider whether this can be taken as a yardstick for research on diasporas of other, diverse origins. In order to substantiate and complement the paper given by Aleida Paudice on the Jewish diaspora and the example of Elia Capsali and to enliven the discussion, the participants are kindly requested to read a chapter of Robin Cohen’s Global Diasporas (for specifications see below).
In further sessions we will listen to two anthropological papers, one on Filipina women living and working in Israel by Claudia Liebelt, and one, by Boris Nieswand, reflecting, among others, on the recently quite influential concept of simultaneous incorporation. Participants are kindly requested to read Levitt and Glick Schiller (see below) on this issue so as to substantiate and stimulate our discussion here. We kindly invite all of you to attend, and we hope for lively, thought-inspiring discussions on a topic which concerns most of us in our individual research projects in varying ways and degrees but which needs critical reflection in the light of new approaches and theories.
Programm
2.00 - 2.15 pm Welcome by Prof. Paul
1st Session
2.15 - 2.45 pm Burkhard Schnepel
Diasporas and their Homelands: An Introduction into the Theme of the Study Day
2.45 - 3 pm Discussion
2nd Session (Chair: Gerold Necker)
3.00 - 3.30 pm Aleida Paudice
"The concept and extent of the Jewish Diaspora: the case of Elia Capsali: a 16th century Cretan Jew"
3.30 - 3.45 pm Discussion
Accompanying literature for all:
Robin Cohen 1997. Global Diasporas. Seattle: University of Washington Press, pp. ix-xii, 1- 29.
Coffee Break
3rd Session (Chair: Elvira Wakelnig)
4.00 - 4.30 pm Claudia Liebelt
" ’Labor Diaspora’ meets Homed ’Victim Diaspora’: Filipinas Caring for Jewish Immigrants in Israel and what ’Diaspora’ has got to do with it"
4.30 - 4.45 pm Discussion
4th Session (Chair: Ursula Rao)
4.45 - 5.15 pm Boris Nieswand
"Simultaneous Incorporation and the Status Paradox of Migration"
5.15 - 5. 30 pm Discussion
Accompanying Literature:
Peggy Levitt and Nina Glick Schiller
2004: Conceptualizing Simultaneity: A Transnational Social Field Perspective on Society. International Migration Review 38: 1002-1039.
5th Session: (Chair: Burkhard Schnepel)
5.30 - 6 pm General Discussion and Conclusions
You will find the abovementioned literature on StudIP and as a master copy at the secretariat of the OWZ.