CALL FOR PAPERS
Translocations: The Irish Migration, Race and Social Transformation Review
Volume 3/ Issue 1/ 2008 www.translocations.ie
Since the mid-1990s, Ireland has experienced, probably for the first time in its modern history, economic prosperity, labour shortages and net inward migration. These developments have brought together debate and research covering a number of related areas. While not entirely [...]
Entries from October 2007
October 31, 2007
Translocations: The Irish Migration
October 31, 2007
Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum
MIDDLE EAST AND CENTRAL ASIA MUSIC FORUM
Friday November 9th, 2007
Room N336, Senate House, University of London
PROGRAMME
Registration from 9.15am
9.45am – Welcome
Session 1: 10 – 11.45am Owen Wright (SOAS) The Ikhwan al-Safa’ on Rhythm
Sam Mirelman (SOAS) ‘Music Theory’ Texts from the Ancient Near East
11.45am – tea/coffee
Session 2: 12.15 – 1pm Ruth Davis (University of Cambridge) Portraying
the East [...]
October 23, 2007
East-West Migration in the EU
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EU MONITORING AND ADVOCACY PROGRAM
OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE
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16 OCTOBER 2007
NEW EUMAP CALL FOR PAPERS: “Across Fading Borders: The Challenges of East-West Migration in the EU”
EUMAP calls for articles about the impact and background of intra-EU mobility and migration, both in the countries of destination and the countries of origin.
Read the full Call for Papers at
http://www.eumap.org/journal/announcements/cfp_oct07.pdf
THEMES [...]
October 23, 2007
Foreign Workers and Students in the GDR – New Blog
A new blog about Foreign Workers and Students in the GDR was launched recently and is run by Dr Damian Mac Con Uladh, an expert in this important field of migration history and studies. Damian hopes that:
this blog will allow me to draw together the hundreds of book reports, media articles, television documentaries on the subject. Moreover, I hope [...]
October 12, 2007
Migration and Literature in Contemporary Europe
International Conference to be held at
the University of Copenhagen
8-10 November 2007
Literature by migrants – those not at home where they write – foregrounds many questions concerning cultural and linguistic identity, not least the relationships between identity, language and territory. Fundamentally, such literature challenges the categories according to which literary disciplines have traditionally (that is, since [...]
October 9, 2007
Literature of Migration: The Italian case
Dr. Federica Mazzara is Post-Doctoral Mellon Fellow at University College London (UCL). The topic of the Mellon Programme for the next two years is “Translations/Transpositions -migration and non-mother-tongue writing”.
Here’s a brief outline of Federica’s project which is focused on the Italian case of the literature of migration. Federica welcomes comments and feedback on this work, as well [...]
October 9, 2007
New Book/DVD-ROM Project: Transcultural Documentary Practice
Projecting Migration – Transcultural Documentary Practice
Edited by Alan Grossman and Áine O’Brien
Migration is one of the major political issues of the current era and increasingly determines who we are and how we define ourselves. Projecting Migration: Transcultural Documentary Practice is a groundbreaking book/DVD-ROM project that explores migration in locations as varied as Lebanon, Ireland, South [...]
