International and Area Studies Summer Institute for Educators, Summer 2004, UCLA
Workshop focused on the diverse African, European, Middle Eastern and Southeast Asian diaspora communities worldwide, from ancient to contemporary times. We will identify important diaspora communities from each region and the historic conditions that produced them, then explore how members have conceived of their places of origin and maintained real or imagined connections to their ancestral homelands. We will pay special attention to contrasting meanings as well as different ways that communities have expressed and kept alive ties to their homelands, such as celebrations, clothing styles, artistic and literary production, and travel.
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Panel |
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SATURDAY
July 31, 2004
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10383 Bunche Hall
9:00 am – noon
Welcome and Introduction to UCLA'S Global Diasporas Institute
Sherry Vatter
History Department, CSU Long Beach |
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Room 1, Media Lab
270 Powell Library
1:00 pm – 4:00
Screening and discussion of Amy Catlin- Jairazbhoy and Nazir Jairazbhoy's 1997 film, Hmong musicians in America : interactions with three generations of Hmong Americans, 1978-1996 with
Barbara Gaerlan
Center for Southeast Asian Studies, UCLA |
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MONDAY
August 2, 2004 |
10383 Bunche Hall
9:00 am - noon
Exiles and Emigrants, Migrants and Adventurers: Are All Population Movements Diasporic?
Elliot Barkan
Department of History, CSU San Bernadino |
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10383 Bunche Hall
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Travel in the Renaissance
Marianna Birnbaum
Department of Germanic Languages, UCLA |
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TUESDAY
August 3, 2004 |
10383 Bunche Hall
9:00 am - noon
At Home in Exile and in Exile at Home: Creating the Jewish Diaspora
Jeffrey Blutinger
History Department, CSU Long Beach |
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10383 Bunche Hall
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
The Filipino Labor Diaspora: Its Costs and Consequences
Including screening & discussion of Mariji Meerman's 2001 film, CHAIN OF LOVE
Rhacel Parrenas
Department of Asian American Studies, UC Davis |
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WEDNESDAY
August 4, 2004 |
10383 Bunche Hall
9:00 am – 10:25
The African Diaspora in Haiti and the Americas
Patrick Polk
Department of World Arts and Cultures, UCLA
10:40 am – noon
The African Diaspora in Suriname
Allen Roberts
Department of World Arts and Cultures & Director of African Studies Center, UCLA |
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Social Science Computing Lab
2035B Public Policy Building
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
INTERNET SESSION: DIASPORA IDENTITIES ON THE WEB |
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THURSDAY
August 5, 2004 |
10383 Bunche Hall
9:00 am – noon
CURRICULUM SESSION |
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10383 Bunche Hall
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
AFRICAN DIASPORA COMMUNITIES IN THE INDIAN OCEAN WORLD
Allen Roberts
Department of World Arts and Cultures & Director of African Studies Center, UCLA
Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy
Department of Ethnomusicology, UCLA
Including screening & discussion of her 2003 film, From Africa to India: Sidi Music in the Indian Ocean Diaspora |
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FRIDAY
August 6, 2004 |
10383 Bunche Hall
9:00 am – noon
GEOGRAPHICAL MOBILITY IN EUROPE
Ödül Bozkurt
Department of Sociology, UCLA |
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Young Research Library
1:00 pm – 2:15 pm
UCLA LIBRARY RESOURCES FOR THE ADVANCED USER
Miki Gorel
Reference Librarian, Young Research Library, UCLA
10383 Bunche Hall
2:30 pm – 4:00
Screening & discussion of Caroline Babayan's 2001 film, HAMBURGER AND DOLMA |
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MONDAY
August 9, 2004 |
10383 Bunche Hall
9:00 am - noon
MOVING IDENTITIES: LEARNING FROM NORTH AFRICAN ARABS IN FRANCE
Larry Michalak
School of Public Health and Alcohol Research Group, UC Berkeley |
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10383 Bunche Hall
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
DIASPORAS IN JAPAN
Ann Kaneko
Independent Filmmaker
Including screening & discussion of her 1998 film, OVERSTAY |
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TUESDAY
August 10, 2004 |
10383 Bunche Hall
9:00 am - noon
AFRICANS IN EUROPE
Dominic Thomas
Department of French and Francophone Studies, UCLA |
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10383 Bunche Hall
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
SOUTHEAST ASIAN BI-CULTURAL PARENTING
Cathryn Dhanatya
Department of Education, Social Sciences and Comparative Education Division, UCLA |
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10383 Bunche Hall
9:00 am - noon
RUSSIAN/GERMANS: CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL ASPECTS
Snezhana Bokarius
Ph.D, Anthropology, formerly at St. Petersburg University, Russia |
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10383 Bunche Hall
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
EAST ASIAN DIASPORA IN LATIN AMERICA: AN OVERVIEW WITH THE CHINESE AS A CASE STUDY
Clara M. Chu
Department of Information Studies, UCLA |
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THURSDAY
August 12, 2004 |
10383 Bunche Hall
9:00 am – 10:45
SUMMING UP, POST-SEMINAR TASKS, & ACCREDITATION
11:00 am – noon
Recreating the Homeland in Los Angeles: Little Ethiopia
Azeb Tadesse
African Studies Center , UCLA
noon - 4:00 pm
FIELD TRIP TO LITTLE ETHIOPIA
Including LUNCH at Ethiopian Restaurant, Meals by Genet |
Sponsored by UCLA's International Institute and its Center for African Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Center for European and Eurasian Studies, and Center for Near Eastern Studies. Funded in part by the U.S. Department of Education.