An international conference of historians and cultural studies scholars exploring the many ways that migration and mobility have been translated across time and space, languages, cultures and academic disciplines.
Welcome
Gumwood Room, EMU
9:00-9:30am
Dennis Galvan, VP for International Affairs
Vera Keller, History Department Head
Julie Weise, Associate Professor of History
Panel #1: Translations of Everyday Life
9:30-11:00am
“The Things They Carried: Representational Functions of Migrant Artifacts,” Kirsten Silva Gruesz, U.C. Santa Cruz
“Migrant-Speak: Keywords in Bihari Lives in the 'East' and Beyond in the Nineteenth Century,” Anand Yang, University of Washington
“Chifas: Translating Chineseness through Food,” Lok Siu, U.C. Berkeley
Confirmed commentator: Roy Chan
Panel #2: Translations of Migrant Imaginations
11:30am-1:00pm
“Edwidge Danticat’s Committed Writing as a Translation of Migration,” Laura Bieger, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
“Child Migrant Stories: Walk on Water and The Walk,” Catherine S. Ramirez, U.C. Santa Cruz
“Labor Migrant Film Audiences in the Post-World War II Years,” Julie Weise, UO
Confirmed commentator: Michael Allan
Public Keynote
Gerlinger Lounge, Gerlinger Hall
4:00-5:30pm
"Assimilation: Global Idea or Just an American Thing?”
Catherine Sue Ramirez, U.C. Santa Cruz
Fredy Gonzalez, University of Illinois-Chicago
Christoph Rass, University of Osnabrueck
Panel #3: Translations of Belonging
Lease Crutcher Lewis, EMU
9:30-11:00am
“The Tong Wars in Mexico: New Perspectives,” Fredy González
“‘Assimilating’ ‘Gastarbeiter’? A Reflexive Approach to the Translation of Concepts in Migration Studies,” Christoph Rass, University of Osnabrueck
"Lost and Found in Translation: Re-Figuring the Figure of the Migrant," Peter Schneck, University of Osnabrueck (via Zoom)
Commentator: Xiaobo Su
