October 5, 2011
16.00: Visit of Exhibit
Guided Tour at the Jewish Museum (upon registration for speakers)
19.00: Public Opening Panel (in German)
Wir erinnern (uns) – aber wie? Historische Einblicke und politische Ausblicke der deutschen Einwanderungsgesellschaft
Dmitrij Belkin (Fritz-Bauer-Institute/Jewish Museum Frankfurt/M.)
Ege Erkoçak (Turkish Ministry for EU Affairs, Director for Political Affairs)
Yasemin and Nesrin Samdereli (German-Turkish film directors, “Almanya”)
Emine Sevgi Özdamar, writer
Chair: Rainer Ohliger (Network Migration in Europe e.V.)
Thursday, October 6
9.30-10.00: Registration
10.00-10.15: Opening and Welcome (Jewish Museum, Network Migration in Europe, Bahçeşehir University, Zentrum für Türkeistudien und Integrationsforschung)
10.15-11.30: Opening talks
Deniz Göktürk (Berkeley University)
Sema Erder (Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul)
Chair: Süheyla Schroeder (Bahçeşehir University)
11.30-12.00: Coffee Break
12.00-13.30: Panel 1: Strategies, Policies and Opportunity Structures of Immigrant Incorporation
Gökce Yurdakul (Humboldt-University Berlin): Jews and Turks in Germany: Immigrant Integration, Political Organization and Minority Rights
Agnes Czajka (American University in Cairo): Migration in the Age of the Nation-State
Barak Kalir (University of Amsterdam): Undocumented National Belonging: The Case of non-Jewish Latino Migrants in Israel
Chair: Halil Uslucan (Zentrum für Türkeistudien und Integrationsforschung, Essen)
13.30-14.30: Lunch
14.30-16.00: Panel 2: Cultural Encounters, Cultural Representations, Cultural Empowerment
Sieta Neuerburg (University of Amsterdam): Around the World in 80 Musics: Teaching Musical Diversity in Museums
Liesbeth Minnaard (Leiden University): Between Exoticism and Silence. A Comparison of First Generation Migrant Writing in Germany and the Netherlands
Ulas Sunata (Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul): Conceptualizing Symbolic Interaction with the Newcomer: ‘Black Swan Phenomenon’
Chair: Martin Düspohl (Kreuzbergmuseum, Berlin)
16.00-16.30: Coffee Break
17.00-18.15: Roundtable 1: Categories of Analysis and Epistemological Arenas: Incorporation – Nationhood – Hybridity
Susanne Stemmler (Haus der Welt der Kulturen/Berlin) [Input on Hybridty]
Süheyla Schroeder (Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul) [Input on Media and Immigrant Incorporation]
Halil Uslucan (Zentrum für Türkeistudien und Integrationsforschung, Essen): [Input on Psychological Dimensions of Integration]
Chair: Rainer Ohliger (Network Migration in Europe)
20.00 Common Dinner
Friday, October 7, 2011
9.30-11.00: Panel 3: Conflicting Representations – Representative Conflicts? (1.5 hours)
Bahar Baser (European University Institute, Florence): An Imported Conflict? The Relations between the Turkish and Kurdish Diasporas in Germany
Christelle Maire (University of Neuchâtel): Who’s Swiss, Who’s Not? Visual Exclusion and Inclusion of Foreigners in Political Posters
Julian M. Simpson (The University of Manchester): Reframing the Iconography of the UK’s National Health Service
Chair: Manuela Bojadzijev (Humboldt-University Berlin)
11.00-11.30: Coffee Break
11.30-13.00: Panel 4: Commemoration and Oblivion of Immigration: Historical and Political Practices
Jeffrey Jurgens (Bard College): “A Wall Victim from the West”: Migration, Sovereignty, and Public Memory in Berlin
Alice von Bieberstein (University of Cambridge): Desiring, Questioning, Contesting the Categories: Negotiating Migrant Subjectivities Between Vergangenheitsbewältigung and Everyday Racism
Michael Rothberg and Yasemin Yildiz (University of Illinois): Multidirectional Memory and the German Question
Chair: N.N.
13.00-14.00: Lunch Break
14.00-15.15: Panel 5: Does Religion Matter? If so why and how?
Margaretha A. van Es (University of Oslo): Muslim Women as "Oppressed Victims" in Dutch and Norwegian Newspaper Articles: Constructions of the "National Self" and its "Others" (1975-2010)
Christoph Ramm (University of Hamburg): The German Integration Debate and the Public ‚Islamization‘ of Turkish Immigrants
Chair: Susanne Schwalgin (Network Migration in Europe e.V.)
15.15-15.45: Coffee Break
15.45-16.30: Project Presentation
Verena Dohrn and Anne-Christin Saß (FU Berlin): “Charlottengrad” and “Scheunenviertel”: Russian and Russian Jewish Immigration to Berlin [Jewish Museum Berlin will show exhibit on the topic in 2012]
Chair: Ufuk Topkara (Univ. Paderborn)
16.30-17.30: Roundtable 2: Space and Place: Looking for Lieux de Mémoires in Immigration Societies
David Kendall (Goldsmiths, University of London) [Input on Paris 19: Mobility, Mem-ory & Migration]
Rainer Ohliger (Network Migration in Europe) [Input on Locating Urban Sites of Commemoration: Berlin’s Migration Heritage Route]
Sara Wills (University of Melbourne) [Input on The Vague Terrains of Our Otherness: Some Trajectories of Migrant Heritage and Place-making in a ‘Post-Multicultural’ Aus-tralia]
Chair: Joachim Baur (die exponauten)
17.30-17.45: short break
17.45-18.45: Concluding talk/comments
Neeraj Kaushal (Columbia University, New York)