Program
Thursday, Feb 2nd
Opening Cocktail
6:30pm—8:30pm
Friday, Feb 3rd
Registration: 8:30am-9:00am
1st Keynote speaker, Alan Gamlen: 9:00am—10:00am
Coffee Break: 10:00am—10:30am
Panel: 10:30am-12:45pm:
Group A
- Isabel Ruck: “The Diaspora’s Role in homeland peacekeeping: The case of the Lebanese Maronite, Greek Orthodox and Armenian Community”
- Alice Crabtree: “The Widening of the Sectarian Gap at Home and Abroad: Transnational Electoral Participation in the Lebanese Diaspora”
- Cornelia Epuras and Semanur Karaman: “A Dialogue Between Past and Future- The Lebanese Diaspora and Trans-national Political Participation”
- Cynthia Salloum: “Lebanese diaspora in France, Mexico and the USA: a comparative approach of a political incorporation”
Lunch: 12:45pm—1:45pm
Parallel Panel Session: 1:45pm—3:45pm
Group B
- Asa Lundgren and Inga Brandell: “The Transnational State”
- Adele Galipo: “Diasporas-Homeland Relationships: Toward a Power Elite Approach”
- Mari-Liis Jakobson: “Transnational citizenship as status, identity and participation: a comparative assessment”
- Ilka Vari-Lavoisier: “How Migrants’ Organizations Challenge State-based Conception of Citizenship and Contribute to the Diffusion of Political Norms”
Group C
- Iain Walker: “One diaspora, two homelands? Comorians and Hadramis in the western Indian ocean”
- Thomas Richard: “Imagined Diasporas and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict”
- Thien-Huong Ninh: "Mary in Our Ethnic Image": Religious Reconstitution and Globalization among Vietnamese Catholics in the Diaspora
- Hung Cam Thai: “Life or Debt: The Emotional Consequences of Monetary Flows in the Vietnamese Diaspora”
Coffee Break: 3:45pm –4:14pm
Dinner: 8:00pm-10:00pm
Saturday, Feb 4th
2rd Keynote speaker, Nicholas Van Hear: 9:00am—10:00am
Coffee Break: 10:00am—10:30am
Panel: 10:30am-12:30
Group D
- Eleonora Castagnone and Viviana Premazzi: “ICTs and transnational political participation. The case of Egyptians in Turin”
- Annika Rabo: “Assyrians/Suryoye/Syrian and Perceptions of church, state and society in the ‘homelands’ and the Swedish diaspora”
- Bahar Baser: “The Kurdish Diaspora in Europe: Identity Formation and Political Activism”
- Carlos Villela: “Between Contention & Co-optation. Migrant Leaders as Development Partners of the State in their Country of Origin: The Mexican Tres Por Uno Case in Zacatecas”
Lunch: 12:30—1:30pm
Panel: 1:30pm—3:30pm
Group E
- Svenja Gertheiss: “Ambivalence from Abroad—Conceptions of Just Peace and Diasporic Activism”
- Huma Haider: “Engaging diaspora through transitional justice and hostland integration: An exploration of how this could benefit both the diaspora and their homeland”
- M. Scott Solomon: “Reimagining the Nation: Deterritorialized Sovereignty and the Filipino Diaspora”
- Phillip Bruckmayr: “Diaspora Instrumentalized: The Chams of Cambodia in Anti-Vietnamese Rhetoric and Politics
Group E
- Carmen Caruso: “An aesthetics of diasporic citizenship: the example of Lebanese women”
- Ahmet Icduygu & Banu Senay: “Long-distance nationalism and secularism: The transnational work of the Turkish State in Australia”
- Hedda Askland: “East Timorese in Australia: affective relationships, identity and belonging in a time of political crisis”
- Christoph Schumann: “Political Mobilization in the Diaspora: Turkish-German & Arab American Organizations and Media Compared”
Coffee Break: 3:30pm –4:00pm
Round-Table Discussion: 4:00pm-5:30pm
*The Round-Table Discussion will be an opportunity for Dr Tabar and Dr Skulte-Ouaiss to present their current IDRC-funded project on the Lebanese Diaspora, as well as an opportunity for presenters to open a dialogue on the issues raised throughout the conference and the possibility of future collaboration.
*he presenters will be given approximately 25 minutes to speak during panel sessions, leaving a brief time frame for questions and answers.
Sunday, Feb 5th
Tour and Lunch in Byblos (for Presenters and Keynote Speakers): 10:00am—3:30pm