Life in Diaspora: Finding Home away from Home?

Life in Diaspora: Finding Home away from Home?

Organizer
Research Center for Religion and Education (RCRE)/ Forschungszentrum für Religion und Bildung (FZRB) (Forschungsnetzwerk Diaspora Studies & Profillinie LIBERTY, Friedrich-Schiller-University)
Host
Forschungsnetzwerk Diaspora Studies & Profillinie LIBERTY, Friedrich-Schiller-University
Venue
Jena
ZIP
07743
Location
Jena
Country
Germany
Takes place
Hybrid
From - Until
03.10.2022 - 07.10.2022
Deadline
15.09.2022
By
Maria Köhler, Theologische Fakultät, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

The summer school is intended to offer a space to consider the actions of diasporic groups within their hosting societies on social, cultural, economic, and spatial levels.

Life in Diaspora: Finding Home away from Home?

Summer School in Diaspora Studies

The term "diaspora" encompasses a wide range of groups that can be described as "deterritorialized" or "transnational". The relationship between diaspora communities and their respective hosting societies represents a relevant research object connected to a specific demarcation as a constitutive for forming a collective diasporic identity. Such a demarcation, along with solidarity with a country of origin and/or diaspora communities in other hosting societies, does not exclude simultaneous assimilation and loyalty to the current place of residence but rather becomes described as multiple modes of incorporation. The summer school is intended to offer a space to consider the actions of diasporic groups within their hosting societies on social, cultural, economic, and spatial levels. It welcomes participants with diverse disciplinary backgrounds (e.g. from geography, sociology, religious studies, economy) and is open to students, graduates, Ph.D. students, and post-docs. Its program consists of lectures, workshops, and panel discussions, which we invite you to actively participate in. Participation in the summer school is free of charge. The event is planned in a hybrid format, but on-site participation is encouraged. Travel and accommodation must be organized and financed individually by the participants, costs cannot be covered by the organizers. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Programm

Monday, 3rd Oct. 2022

09:00–10:30h: Registration and welcoming

11:00–15:00h: Prof. Dr. Karen Lauterbach (University of Copenhagen, DK):
Workshop: The Role of Religion in Diaspora in the Context of Displacement

15:30–17:00h: Panel discussion

Tuesday, 4th Oct. 2022

08:50–09:00h: Prof. Dr Joachim von Puttkamer (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena):
Welcoming note

09:00–17:00h: Prof. Dr David C. Lewis (University of Cambridge, UK):
Workshop: Who? Where? How? Approaches to Urban Fieldwork

Wednesday, 5th Oct. 2022

09:00–17:00h: Dr Ayat Nashwan (Yarmouk University, JO):
Workshop: Coping Strategies of Migrants in Exile & Diaspora

Thursday 6th Oct. 2022

09:00–15:00h: Dr Hakob Matevosyan (Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe, GWZO)

15:30–17:00h: Panel discussion

Friday 7th Oct. 2022

09:00–10:30h: Dr Zeynep Sezgin (Vienna University, Austria):
Keynote: Legitimation Strategies of Turkish Migrant Organizations in Plural Environments

11:00–12:30h: Prof. Dr Simon Runkel (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena):
Longing for Home: Geographies of Religion in a Moving World

13:30–17:00h: Dr Ekrem Düzen and Dr Elif Sandal Önal (Bielefeld University, Germany):
You All Belong here: Influences of Home-State Transnational Politics on Diaspora’s Identity and Belonging

Contact (announcement)

Forschungszentrum für Religion und Bildung (Research Center for Religion and Education, FZRB)
Fürstengraben 6
D-07743 Jena

E-Mail: zrb@uni-jena.de
Tel.: +49 3641 9-42771

https://www.zrb.uni-jena.de/forschungsnetzwerk-diaspora-studies
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