[Reader-list] [Announcements] CFP: Migration, Diaspora and the City, Calcutta, 12-13 December, 2008

[j.bonnerjee at qmul.ac.uk]

Dear Sarai announcement-list editor
Would be grateful if you could post the following Call for Papers on  
the announcement list.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Jayani Bonnerjee


Call for papers: Migration, Diaspora and the City, Calcutta
Deadline for abstracts: 1st October, 2008
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Migration, Diaspora and the City: Mobility and Dwelling in Calcutta
A two-day international conference
12 ? 13th December 2008, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
Convened in collaboration with the Diaspora Cities research team and
The City Centre, Queen Mary, University of London

This two-day international and inter-disciplinary conference at the
Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, will explore the
critical relationships between migration, diaspora and the city,
focusing on past and present migrations to and from Calcutta. The
conference is convened in collaboration with the Diaspora Cities
research team, Queen Mary, University of London and the City Centre.
It is funded by The Leverhulme Trust
(www.geog.qmul.ac.uk/diasporacities/).

Although ideas and lived experiences of diasporas are intrinsically
transnational, a wide range of research invokes the nation through
material and imaginative connections to a past, present or imagined
?homeland.? Other research focuses on the city primarily as a site of
diasporic resettlement. Drawing on research on historical and
contemporary migrations to and from Calcutta, this conference will
focus on the city as a distinctive location within ?diaspora space?
(Brah, 1996) and will address the ways in which the city, as a place
of origin, travel, sojourn and resettlement, is a site of territorial
and emotional mobility and dwelling.

Abstracts are invited from researchers working on past and present
migrations to and from Calcutta and on wider conceptual themes
concerning migration, diaspora and the city. The conference will
address migration within Bengal and India as well as on a
transnational scale, and will consider the ideas, experiences and
emotions of mobility and dwelling for a wide range of communities
within Calcutta and across the Calcuttan diaspora. Conference themes
are likely to
include:

? Histories and geographies of travel and migration to and from Calcutta
? Oral histories, images and written accounts of Calcutta in diaspora
? Diasporic memories, imaginings and experiences of Calcutta
? Transnational practices and the neo-liberal city
? Tales of urban mobility and dwelling in life stories, cultural
practices and representations
? The emotional, embodied and sensory geographies of Calcutta in diaspora
? Public and private spaces of diasporic urbanism
? Mobility and dwelling in relation to urban modernities,
cosmopolitanism and consumption

Please send abstracts of up to 200 words by 1 October 2008 to Dr Noah
Hysler Rubin: N.Rubin at qmul.ac.uk

Thank you



-- 
Jayani Bonnerjee
Research Student

Department of Geography
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS

j.bonnerjee at qmul.ac.uk
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