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COURSE SCHEDULE
(Sunday 17.07) Day 0:
Arrival
Monday 18.07. Day 1:
Welcome and Orientation session 9:30-11:00
Walking tour of Krosno 11:00-12:00
Lunch 12:00-13:30
Plenary Lecture:
Theories of Diaspora
Pilar Cuder-Dominguez, Universidad de Huelva
Tuesday 19.07. Day 2:
Plenary Lecture: 9:00-10:30:
"There's no place like home": on Third Culture Kids and Existential Migration
Carly McLaughlin, Universität Bamberg
Seminars groups or Study Session 10:30-12:00
Lunch 12:00-13:30
Self-study Session 13:30-15:00
15:00-17:00
Wednesday 20.07. Day 3:
Plenary Lecture: 9:00-10:30
Gender and the Birth of the Nation in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy
Mar Gallego-Durán, Universidad de Huelva
Seminars groups or Study Session 10:30-12:00
Lunch 12:00-13:30
Self-study Session 13:30-15:00
15:00-17:00
Plenary Lecture: 9:00-10:30
Thursday 21.07. Day 4:
Migrating Modernities
Iain Chambers, Istituto Universitario Orientale in Naples
Seminars groups or Study Session 10:30-12:00
Lunch 12:00-13:30
Self-study Session 13:30-15:00
15:00-17:00
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Plenary Lecture: 9:00-10:30
Friday 22.07. Day 5:
Nostalgia in representations of exile
Malin Lidström Brock, Högskolan Dalarna, Falun
Seminars groups or Study Session 10:30-12:00
Lunch 12:00-13:30
Self-study Session 13:30-15:00
15:00-17:00
(Saturday 23.07) Day 6:
A vsist to a Greek village in the vicinity
(Sunday 24.07) Day 7:
Day off
Plenary Lecture: 9:00-10:30
(Monday 25.07) Day 8:
The Poetics of Exile and Belonging in Irish Writing
Irene Gilsenan Nordin, Dalarna University, Falun
Seminars groups or Study Session 10:30-12:00
Lunch 12:00-13:30
Self-study Session 13:30-15:00
15:00-17:00
Plenary Lecture: 9:00-10:30
(Tuesday 26.07) Day 9:
Gender and the space/place distinction: Home and home making in life span
narratives by Polish migrant women in Hungary
Erzsebet Barat, Szegedi Tudományegyetem
Seminars groups or Study Session 10:30-12:00
Lunch 12:00-13:30
Self-study Session 13:30-15:00
15:00-17:00
(Wednesday 27.07) Day 10:
Plenary Lecture: 9:00-10:30
Fictions of Eastern European Migrants and Their Homes
Andrea Balogh, Szegedi Tudományegyetem
Seminars groups or Study Session 10:30-12:00
Lunch 12:00-13:30
Self-study Session 13:30-15:00
15:00-17:00
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(Thursday 28.07) Day 11:
Plenary Lecture: 9:00-10:30
Why the Irish leave - Considerations on Emigration from Ireland
Gerard McCann, St Mary's University College, Belfast
Seminars groups or Study Session 10:30-12:00
Lunch 12:00-13:30
Self-study Session 13:30-15:00
15:00-17:00
(Friday 29.07) Day 12:
Plenary Lecture: 9:00-10:30
Global migration and the archive of memory
Peter Leese, Københavns Universitet, Denmark
Closing ceremony 10:30-12:00
Lunch 12:00-13:30
13:30-15:00
15:00-17:00
Departure
(30.07) Day 13:
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Study materials
Most of the sources should be freely available, for example, via JSTOR. Others will be
made available online.
1. Pilar Cuder-Dominguez, Universidad de Huelva (17-23 July)
Theories of Diaspora
Main reading:
Gilroy, Paul. “British Cultural Studies and the Pitfalls of Identity.” Black British Cultural
Studies: A Reader. Ed. Houston A. Baker, Jr., Manthia Diawara, and Ruth H. Lindeborg.
Chicago: U of Chicago P., 1996. 223-39. [pdf]
Additional readings:
Clifford, James. “Diasporas.” Cultural Anthropology 9.3 (1994): 302-38. [pdf]
Hall, Stuart. “Cultural Identity and Diaspora.” Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory:
A Reader. Ed. Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester
Wheatsheaf, 1994. 392-403. [pdf]
Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial
Discourses.” Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory: A Reader. Ed. Patrick Williams
and Laura Chrisman. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994. 196-220. [pdf]
2. Carly McLaughlin, Universität Bamberg (17-30 July)
"There's no place like home": on Third Culture Kids and Existential Migration
Readings:
Colm Toibin, The Empty Family: Stories (Penguin, 2011).
Faith Eidse, Nina Sichel (eds.), Unrooted Childhoods: Memoirs of Growing Up Global:
Narratives of Growing Up Global (Nicholas Brealey, 2004).
David C. Pollock , Ruth E. Van Reken, Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds
(Nicholas Brealey, 2009).
Greg A. Madison, The End of Belonging. Untold stories of leaving home and the
psychology of global relocation (Createspace, 2009).
3. Mar Gallego-Durán, Universidad de Huelva (17-23 July)
Gender and the Birth of the Nation in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy
Main reading:
Toni Morrison. A Mercy. London: Chatto & Windus, 2008.
Additional readings:
Harris, Joseph. “The Dynamics of the Global African Diaspora.” The African Diaspora. Eds.
Alusine Jalloh and Stephen Maizlish. Texas: A&M University Press, 1996. 7-21.
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Friedman, Susan Stanford. “The ‘New Migration’: Clashes, Connections, and Diasporic
Women’s Writing.” Contemporary Women’s Writing 3.1 (2009): 6-27.
Bush, Barbara. “History, Memory, Myth? Reconstructing the History (or Histories) of Black
Women in the African Diaspora.” Images of African and Caribbean Women. Migration.
Displacement, Diaspora. Ed. Stephanie Newell. Centre of Commonwealth Studies:
University of Stirling, 1996. 3-28.
4. Iain Chambers, Istituto Universitario Orientale in Naples (20-4 July)
Migrating Modernities
Readings:
Chambers, Iain and Curti, Lidia (2008) 'Migrating modernities in the Mediterranean',
Postcolonial Studies, 11: 4, 387 — 399. (pdf)
Ulf Hannerz, ‘Flows, boundaries and hybrids:keywords in transnational anthropology’ (pdf)
Thomas Faist, ‘Transnationalization in International Migration: Implications for the Study
of Citizenship and Culture’ (pdf)
5. Malin Lidström Brock, Högskolan Dalarna, Falun (17-30 July)
Main viewing:
Nostalgia in representations of exile
Underground: Once Upon a Time There Was a Country (Emir Kusturica, 1995)
Additional readings:
Nicole Lindstrom: "Yugonostalgia: Restorative and Reflective Nostalgia in Former
Yugoslavia", East Central Europe (ECE), vol. 32, part 1-2, pp. 7-55.
Hilary Dickinson and Michael Erben, "Nostalgia and Autobiography: The Past in the
Present", Auto/Biography, 2006:14. pp. 223-244.
Dubravka Ugresic, "The Writer in Exile", Thank You For Not Reading: Essays On Literary
Trivia (2003), pp. 127-149.
6. Irene Gilsenan Nordin, Dalarna University, Sweden (17-30 July)
The Poetics of Exile and Belonging in Irish Writing
Main Readings:
Davidson, Ian. 2007. “Space, Place and Identity,” The Idea of Space in Contemporary
Poetry. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 89-123.
Heaney, Seamus. 1985. “‘Place and Displacement’: Recent Poetry from Northern Ireland,”
Wordsworth Circle 37(3): 148-156.
Higgins Michael D. and Declan Kiberd. 1997. “Culture and Exile. The Global Irish,” New
Hibernia Review 1(3). 9-22.
7. Erzsebet Barat, Szegedi Tudományegyetem (17-23 July)
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Gender and the space/place distinction: Home and home making in life span narratives by
Polish migrant women in Hungary
Main Reading:
Cerwonka, Allaine. 2008. “Traveling Feminist Thought: ‘Difference’ and Transculturation in
Central and Eastern Europe” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 33:4.
Summer. 809-832.
Additional readings:
Lynda Johnston and Gill Valentine, ‘WHEREVER I LAY MY GIRLFRIEND,
THAT’S MY HOME: the performance and surveillance of lesbian identities in domestic
environments’. In David Bell & Gill Valentine, Mapping Desire: Geographies of Sexualities.
Eds. Routledge, 1995. pp. 88-103. (PDF)
8. Andrea Balogh, Szegedi Tudományegyetem (24-30 July)
Fictions of Eastern European Migrants and Their Homes
Main reading:
Lewycka, Marina (2007) Two Caravans. London: Penguin Books.
(US edition: Strawberry Fields)
Additional readings:
Wolff, Larry (1994). "Introduction." Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on
the Mind of the Enlightenment. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1-16.
Ahmed, Sara. (2000) "Home and Away: Narratives of migration and
estrangement." Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality. New York and
London: Routledge, 77-94.
Ahmed, Sara. (2000) "Recognising strangers." Strange Encounters, 21-37.
9. Gerard McCann, St Mary's University College, Belfast (17-30 July)
Why the Irish leave - Considerations on Emigration from Ireland
Seminar discussion topic: Consider a major event in your region's recent history that
has contributed to the forced movement of people, and comment on how this disapora
economically dealt with, or culturally reflected on, the experience of displacement.
Main reading:
Gerard McCann, 'The impact of colonisation on the island of Ireland – from famine to
emigation (1841-1921)', from Uneven Development in the History of the Irish Economy
(Pluto Press: London and New York, 2011).
‘Exodus’ ( 1989 documentary on post-Famine emigration from Ireland. 26 minutes).
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q='when+ireland+starved'&sk=&adlt=strict&mid=15
007055CBBF7F796DE215007055CBBF7F796DE2&FORM=LKVR3#
10. Peter Leese, Københavns Universitet, Denmark (17-30 July)
Global migration and the archive of memory
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Main reading:
Donall MacAmhlaigh, An Irish Navvy. The Diary of an Exile (Cork: Collins Press, 2008)
Bibi Inder Kuar’s short testimony is published in: R. Menon and K. Bhasin, Borders and
Boundaries. Women in India’s Partition (New Dehli: Kali for Women, 2007) pp. 207-15.
Additional readings:
Brockmeier, J. “Reaching for Meaning. Human Agency and Narrative Imagination,” Theory
& Psychology 19 (2), 2009, pp. 213-233.
A. Burton, Dwelling in the Archive. Women Writing House, Home and History in Late
Colonial India (NY: Oxford University Press, 2003).
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ASSESSMENT:
Passing the course (getting ECTS points) depends on meeting the following criteria:
1. Attendance at ALL lectures and seminars.
(Attendance list to be set up on the first day and kept in the staff room; students need to sign this
each day; no swapping between groups.)
2. Full participation and engagement in classes including active contribution and
advanced preparation for all seminar sessions;
(Teachers to keep a record of any notable failures; attendance records, notes and suggested
grades from all teachers to be handed in to PL at the end of your part in the course.)
3. EITHER:
a 10-15 MINUTE presentation on a chosen subject during one of the seminar sessions.
OR
a paper (2000-3000) to be submitted to one of the course tutors on a subject approved
by that tutor.
(Tutors to provide written / oral assignments – one of each - in advance.)