Diasporic Trajectories: Transnational Cultures in the 21st Century The 2016 seminar series,

Diasporic Trajectories: Transnational Cultures in the 21st Century The 2016 seminar series, at IASH, 2 Hope Park Square, University of Edinburgh

Diaspora studies is a growing area of research within the broader field of postcolonial studies. Its principal focus is the ways in which the experiences of migrant and displaced communities have been represented in thought, literature and art. With the aim of encouraging underexplored comparative perspectives this seminar series will probe diaspora-related themes in a diverse range of ways. There will be two papers at each seminar, separated by a coffee break. The series is organised by the Diaspolinks research group and is open to all.

Website: www.llc.ed.ac.uk/diaspolinks

19th February: 2pm: Rada Iveković (Emeritus Professor and Collège International de philosophie, Paris): ‘Epistemological fractures: the decline of western paradigms’

http://www.oecumene.eu/people/rada-ivekovic

*This paper will be given in conjunction with a talk given by Professor Ivekovic at the French Institute in Scotland on Thursday 18th February, 6-7.30pm, entitled ‘Les Citoyens manquants’ and focusing on the current migrant crisis and its implications for European countries: http://www.ifecosse.org.uk/Les-Citoyens-manquants.html *

3.30pm: Alison Donnell (University of Reading): ‘Caribbean literary archives: the challenges of missing voices and precarious pages’

https://www.reading.ac.uk/english-literature/aboutus/Staff/a-j-donnell.aspx

Chair: Sam Coombes

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15th April: 2pm: Bill Marshall (University of Stirling): ‘French Atlantic Cities in Translation’

http://rms.stir.ac.uk/converis-stirling/person/11683

3.30pm: Sam Coombes (University of Edinburgh): ‘Approaching Diaspora and Alter-Globalisation via the later works of Edouard Glissant’

http://www.ed.ac.uk/literatures-languages-cultures/delc/french/staff/sam-coombes

Chair: David Farrier

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21st October: 2pm: Michael Syrotinski (University of Glasgow): ‘Achille Mbembe and the Untranslatable, from Globalization to Mondialisation.’ http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/mlc/staff/michaelsyrotinski/

3.30pm Claire Joubert (University of Paris 8): ‘Minor Globalities: Poetics and the Geopolitics of Knowledge from Colonial to Global’

http://www.ea-anglais.univ-paris8.fr/spip.php?article1188

This paper will be given in conjunction with a talk given by Professor Joubert at the French Institute in Scotland on Thursday 19th October, 6-7.30pm

Chair: Nicola Frith

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28th October: 2pm: Neil Lazarus (University of Warwick): ‘Stone upon Stone: Land, Labour and Consciousness in World-Literary Perspective’ http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/people/lazarusprofneil/

3.30pm: Corinne Bigot (University of Paris 10, Paris-Ouest La Défense): ‘Culinary dislocation: ethnic food memoirs and tales’

http://anglais.u-paris10.fr/spip.php?article1525

Chair: Françoise Král

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25th November: Postgraduate Diasporic Trajectories seminar, starting 2pm

Justine Seran (University of Edinburgh) : ‘Home Reimagined: the Indigenous Australian Diaspora’

Alice Kelly (University of Edinburgh): ‘The Problem of Longitude’: Unplottable Subjects and the Erosion of European Diaspora in Joseph Conrad’s Malay Fiction’.

Sarah Stewart (University of Edinburgh): ‘Shelter at the Border: Writing Back from the State of Exception’

Chair: Sam Coombes