WORKSHOP
Location & Dislocation in Early Modern Religion
Saturday, October 22
Jackman Humanities Building
170 St. George Street, room 100A
10:00-5:30
Reception to follow
Sponsors:
Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto
Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto (Exiles Working Group (2011-12)
Trinity College, University of Toronto
This workshop will be the second of four that are being held through the 2011-12 academic year in conjunction with the JHI Exiles Working group and leading towards an international conference at the University of Toronto on Early Modern Migrations: Exiles, Expulsion, and Religious Refugees (19-21 April 2012).
Each of the four workshops explores a particular sub-theme within the larger project, and Location & Dislocation in Early Modern Religion will focus on exploring three stages of the dynamics at work, with an emphasis on specifically religious movements/groups/texts.
CONFERENCES
Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies,
University of Toronto and the Department of German and Dutch,
University of Cambridge present
Sports and Globalization: Concepts, Structures, Cases
June 3-4, 2011
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SYMPOSIUM: Jews and Africans in the Literary Imagination, March 3, 2011
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011 9:00 AM
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100A, 170 St George Street
Click here for the program.
Keynote address at 4pm: Eric Goldstein, Emory
The Horrors of Kishinev, The Shame of Springfield: Intersecting Images of Violence Against Jews and African Americans at the Opening of the Twentieth Century
The Commodification of Illicit Flows:
Labour Migration, Trafficking and Business
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Friday, October 9- Saturday, October 10, 2009
Robert Gill Theatre, Koffler Student Services Centre
214 College Street, Third Floor
For more information on the conference click here.
Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies and Cambridge University Press present
The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature
University of Toronto, Sept 18-21, 2008
William Doo Auditorium, New College, 45 Willcocks Street
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Markets: From the Bazaar to eBay
Thursday, March 6 – Sunday, March 9, 2008
March 6 at The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility,
1 Devonshire Place
March 7-9 at St. Michael’s College
81 St. Mary Street, Charbonnel Lounge
Click here for the Conference Program with abstracts and speaker biographies.
Eli Rubenstein
National Director, March of the Living Canada
Stories to Heal a Broken World
March 30, 2011
3 – 6 pm
Robert Gill Theatre
214 College Street, 3rd flr
Toronto, ON M5T 2Z9
Featuring stories from student trips to Germany and Poland to study the Holocaust and other WWII genocides. The stories contain a message of universal peace, love and hope and revolve around the courage of the victims of Nazi tyranny, the righteous who tried to rescue them, and the survivors and students who embark on these challenging yet meaningful pilgrimages.
METHODS CAFE 2011-12
Thursday, November 10
12:30 -
2:00
Jackman Humanities Building
170 St. George Street, room 318
Jayeeta Sharma, History/Global Asia Studies, UTSC
"Empire's Garden: Assam and the Making of India" (2011, Duke UP)
Discussant: Neil Ten Kortenaar
Director, Centre for Comparative Literature, English UTSC
Thursday, October 13
12:30 -
2:00
Jackman Humanities Building
170 St. George Street, room 318
Monica Heller, CREFO, OISE
"Language, Globalization and Ethnography"
December 8
11:30 - 1:00
Jackman Humanities Building
170 St. George Street, room 318
Girish Daswani, Anthropology, U of T Scarborough
"The Pentecostal Scape in Ghana and amongst the diaspora in
London"
METHODS CAFE 2010-11
January 14
Joshua Pilzer, Hearts of Pine: Songs of Three Korean Survivors of the “Comfort Women” System (Oxford University Press, Forthcoming)
Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, St. George Campus
Discussant: Jesook Song
Associate Professor of Anthropology, St. George Campus
February 11
E. Natalie Rothman, Trans-Imperial Subjects: Boundary Markers of the Early Modern Mediterranean (Cornell University Press, Forthcoming)
Assistant Professor of History, UTSC
Discussant: Natalie Zemon Davis
Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, St. George Campus
Henry Charles Lea Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton
March 4
Jennifer L. Jackson, Getting an Edge in Wordwise: Political Oratory and Cartooning in Malagasy Democratic Process (Wiley Blackwell, Forthcoming)
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, UTM
Discussant: Michael J. Lambek
Professor of Anthropology, FRSC, UTSC
April 1
Jin-Kyung Park, Corporeal Colonialism: Medicine, Women’s Disease, and Race in Colonial Korea
Assistant Professor of Global Asia Studies & Gender and Women Studies, UTSC
Discussant: Michelle Murphy
Associate Professor of History, St. George Campus
October 29
Alejandro Paz
Anthropology/Humanities UTSC
"Cultural Exile in a Diasporic Nation: Language and Public Discourses in the Forging of Latino Ethnolinguistic Identity in Israel"
November 12
Ken MacDonald
Geography/DTS UTSC
“Mondo Formaggio: Following Cheese Through Time and Space”
This event will take place in room 100A.
December 3
Marieme Lo
Inside the ‘shadow economy’ : A critical gaze and urban ethnography of transnational entrepreneurship
African Studies/Women and Gender Studies
METHODS CAFE 2009-10
September 25
Ian Hacking, "Making Up People"
October 16
Courtney Jung, "Critical Liberalism: The Methodology of
Critical Political Theory"
November 6
Michelle Murphy, "Topography, Origami, Technoscience"
December 4
Ato Qauyson, "Strangers in Canton: The African Trading
Community in Guangzhou, China"
January 15
Bonnie McElhinny, "Archiving Intimacy: The Politics and
Pragmatics of Investigating Colonial Interventions into Filipino
Child-rearing Practices"
February 12
Ruth Marshall, "Suspending Disbelief in Africa: Researching Religion at the Limits of Social Scientific Reason Alone"
March 26
Alissa Trotz, "Violence, Displacement, Memories"
GUEST LECTURE SERIES 2011-12
Laurence Ralph
Assistant Professor, African American Studies
Harvard University
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Co-Sponsored with Centre for Criminology
Violence and Mobility in a Chicago Street Gang
Timothy Mitchell
Columbia University
Friday, September 23, 2011
Co-Sponsored with Department of Geography
Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil
Please note that this lecture will take place at Sidney Smith Hall, room 2117,
at 100 St. George Street.
Matthew Engelke
Senior Lecturer, Anthropology
London School of Economics
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Co-Sponsored with Department for the Study of Religion and Anthropology
The Anthropology of After Religion
2010-2011 Guest Lecture Series
Dr. Joel Robbins
Professor and Chair, Anthropology
University of California, San Diego
Thursday, September 16
Co-Sponsored with Religion in the Public Sphere
Dr. Saidiya Hartman
Professor, English & Comparative Literature
Columbia University
"The Seventh Ward and the Studio"
Friday, February 4
2 - 4 pm
Co-sponsored with Centre for the Study of the United States and Department of English
David Dernie
Head of Leicester School of Architecture
De Montfort University
Thursday, March 17
Dr. Rhacel Parrenas
Professor, Sociology
University of Southern California
"Moral Imperialism and the US War on Trafficking"
Tuesday, March 29
4-6 pm
Jackman Humanities Building, room 100A
170 St. George Street
Dr. Lisa Lowe
Professor, Literature and Ethnic Studies
University of California, San Diego
Thursday, April 7
Munk Centre, room 208N
Co-sponsored with Centre for the Study of the United States
2009-2010 Guest Lecture Series
All lectures to take place at the Jackman Humanities Building
170 St. George Street
First Floor Conference Room 100A
4:00 – 6:00 pm
*Refreshments provided*
Monday, October 5
Francesca Trivellato
Department of History
Yale University
The 'Jewish' Bill of Exchange:
A Forgotten Chapter in European Debates about Jews and Capitalism
Tuesday, December 1
Kamari Clarke
Department of Anthropology
Yale University
Fictions of the Justice: The ICC and the Challenge of Legal Pluralism in Sub-Saharan
Africa
Thursday February 25 CHANGE OF DATE
William Mazzarella
Department of Anthropology
University of Chicago
Beautiful Balloon: The Digital Divide and the Charisma of New
Media in India
Thursday, March 25
James Ferguson
Department of Anthropology
Stanford University
What Comes after the Social? Toward a New Anthropology of Distribution
Wednesday, April 28
Saskia Sassen
Department of Sociology
Columbia University
Incompleteness and the possibility of remaking membership
Jackman Humanities Insititute's 2009-2010 Program for the Arts, Pressure on the Human,
and Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies present
Public Lecture by Ian Buruma
"The Limits of Free Speech: Dignity and Indignity in a Multicultural Society"
Thursday, March 18, 2010
William Doo Auditorium, New College
45 Willcocks Street
5:00 -7:00 PM
Reception to follow
Roundtable Discussion with Ian Buruma
Friday, March 19, 2010
2:00-4:00 PM
University of Toronto Mississauga
Council Chambers
South Building, room 3130
3359 Mississauga Rd N.
Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6
Click here for directions to the venue
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Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies
sponsored following events
FLYING -
Confessions of a Free Woman
A SIX PART FILM SERIES BY JENNIFER FOX
Thursday, October 11, 2007 3:00-6:00 p.m.
Friday, October 12, 2007 2:30-6:00 p.m.
Clike here for more information.
Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies and
The Chancellor Jackman Program for the Arts present
April 14-22, 2007
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Colonizin' in Reverse
LOUISE SIMONE BENNETT:
A Commemoration
Friday March 9th, 2007
William Doo Auditorium, New College, 45 Willcocks Street
Transnationalism Activism Art Conference
March 8-11, 2007
Robert Gill Theatre
For more information please visit www.taaconference.org
"Diasporic Hegemonies: Race, Gender, Sexuality and the Politics of Feminist Transnationalism"
(with UofT Women and Gender Studies Institute)
October 19-21, 2006
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FACULTY WORKSHOPS 2007
Prof. Robert A. Davidson
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UofT
From Détente to Detention: Hotels & Cultural Theory
University College, Room 376
Friday, March 30, 2007 (2-4 pm)
discussed by Professor Ato Quayson
Department of English, UofT
Prof. Josiah Blackmore
Department of Spanish and Portugese, UofT
Manifest Perdition: Shipwreck Narrative and
the Disruption of Empire
University College, Room 144
Friday, March 9, 2007 (2-4 pm)
discussed by Prof. Kenneth Mills
Department of History, UofT
Prof. Jens Hanssen
Assistant Professor of Mediterranean and Middle East History,
UofT
Fin de Siècle Beirut:
The Making of an Ottoman Provincial Capital
University College, Room 248
Friday, January 12, 2007 (2-4 pm)
discussed by Professor Natalie Zemon Davis
GUEST LECTURE SERIES
Friday, March 20, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
African Studies Seminar Series:
The State of Democracy in Africa
108N - North House, MCIS
Speaker: Kwaku Sakyi Ado
(TV3 and Former Correspondence for the BBC and Reuters)
”ABATOW (Playing/Pushing the marble): Elections & the Changing Phases of Africa”
Kwaku Sakyi Addo will discuss the evolution of electoral democracy in Africa after the post-Cold War era to its current at once lively and bloody phase, and prognosticate a future direction.
Speaker: Antoinette Handley (University of Toronto)
Speaker: John Ejobowah (Wilfrid Laurier University)
Speaker: Thomas Tieku (University of Toronto)
Co-sponsored by Centre for International Studies and Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies
Wednesday, March 25, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Guest Speaker Series: Kwaku Sakyi-Addo
“BAABIARA NE HA (Everywhere is here); Home & Away:
The Equalization of Two Wor(l)ds”
Venue: Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St George St, Rm 235
It is a discussion about how New Media have taken the town square overseas and are shaping the political, social and economic choices of the African diaspora.
Click here for more details on the talk.
Kindly register for the event on the right side of the screen.
Thursday, March 5, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Education and Initiation in the Novels of the Yiddish Haskole and Islamic Negritude
Dr Marc Caplan
Romance Languages and Literatures
Johns Hopkins University
Venue: Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St George St, Rm 235
CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS ON THE TALK
Tuesday, March 31, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Insurgent Sex: Black Peril/White Peril and the Rise of Anti-Colonialism in the Gold Coast
Dr Carina Ray
History Department, Fordham University
Venue: Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St George St, Rm 235
CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS ON THE TALK
Friday, October 3 (3-5 pm)
Local Borders and Global Flows: Senegal’s Illegal Pharmaceutical Trade
Donna A. Patterson
Department of Africana Studies
Wellesley College
Friday, October 24 (2-4 pm)
Kashmir and Transnationalism
Nyla Ali Khan
Department of English
University of Nebraska-Kearney
Tuesday, October 28 (2-4 pm)
Atlantic Gandhi, Caribbean Gandhian
Nalini Natarajan
English Department
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
Jesse Shipley
Assistant Professor of Africa and African Diaspora Studies and Anthropology
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Monday, 14 April 2008
15 Devonshire Place, Trinity College, Larkin Building
12-1 pm screening of the FILM "LIVING THE HIPLIFE"
1-3 pm Talk: "Afro-Cosmopolitanism: Circulation and Moral Citizenship in Ghanaian Hiplife Music"
Eric Ansah
Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social & Behavioral Sciences
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"China's globalization to Africa: consequences for the West's ideological and economic hegemony?"
Friday, 11 April 2008
2-4 pm
Jackman Humanities Building
James Holston
University of California, Berkeley
"Insurgent Citizenship in an Era of Global Urban Peripheries"
Wednesday, 9 April 2008
3-5pm
19 Russell St
Co-sponsored with the Department of Anthropology
Rev. Prof. Elom Dovlo
Head of Department of Religious Studies
University of Ghana, Legon
"Bridging The Middle Passage: Defragmenting African Diasporic Knowledges"
Wednesday, 26 March 2008
2-4 pm
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 235
Abdourahman A. Waberi
An award-winning novelist, poet, short-story writer
Susan and Donald Newhouse Humanities Fellow
Wellesley College
"Denationalizing the French Language"
Wednesday, 13 February 2008
2-4 pm
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 235
Peter James Hudson
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Caribbean Studies Program,
New College, University of Toronto
"The Brazen White Sign of the Dollar: Empire, Economy, and the Practice of Diaspora"
Wednesday, 13 February 2008
3-5 pm
Munk Center for International Studies,
Rm 208N
Prof. Rukhsana Qamber
Director, Area Study Centre for Africa, North and South America
Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad
"Family Matters: Post 1492 Transatlantic Muslim Migrants"
17 January 2008
2-4 pm
Munk Center for International Studies,
Rm 208N
Prof. Emmanuel K. Akyeampong
Harvard University
History and African and African American Studies
"Power and the Body: Transactions around the Body in Africa and the Americas"
Friday, November 16th, 2007
2 - 4pm
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 235
Prof. Paul Zeleza
University of Illinois
Head, Department of African American Studies
"Africa's New Diasporas: From Brain Drain to Brain Mobility"
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
2 - 4pm
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 235
Tejumola Olaniyan
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Departments of English and African Languages & Literature
"What proud poem?"
The Cultural, The Political,
and African Diaspora Studies
Friday, November 9th, 2007
2 - 4pm
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 235
Ama de-Graft Aikins
University of Cambridge
Department of Social and Developmental Psychology
"The African in African Diaspora Studies"
Friday, October 19th, 2007
2 - 4pm
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 308
Jack Kugelmass
University of Florida
Center for Jewish Studies, Director
"Through the Jungles of Peru: A Yiddish Travelogue
as Pseudoethnography"
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
4 - 6pm
Anthropology Conference Room, AT246
19 Russell Street
Zvi Gitelman
University of Michigan
A Diaspora within a Diaspora: ‘Attached’ Non-Jews and the Boundaries of Jewishness
Monday, March 26, 2007
Sidney Smith Hall, Room 2111 (2-4 pm)
Ben Carrington
University of Texas
Race and Sport after Empire:
Rethinking the Politics of Sporting Multiculturalism after 7/7
Friday, March 16, 2007
University College, Room 144 (2-4 pm)
Erica Simmons
Department of History, UofT
CONFRONTING DIASPORA:
AMERICAN JEWISH WOMEN IN PALESTINE
University College, Room 144
Friday, March 2, 2007 (2-4 pm)
David Lehmann
University of Cambridge
"RELIGION, ETHNICITY AND POLITICS IN ISRAEL"
7 King's College Circle
Wednesday, January 10, 2007 (2-4 pm)
Sir Richard Dearlove
"The Craft of Intelligence in a Time of Terrorism:
Means, Methods, and Ends"
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
George Ignatieff Theatre, Trinity College, UofT
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