[Bilimsel Haber] CONF./PROG.- Entangled By Multiple Tongues: The Role of Diaspora in the Transfer of Culture, Zurich, June 3-4

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CONF./PROG.- The Role of Diaspora in the Transfer of Culture, Zurich, 
June 3-4

Posted by: Andreas Kaplony <kaplony at oriental.uzh.ch>


Final Program: International Workshop "Entangled By Multiple Tongues:
The Role of Diaspora in the Transfer of Culture", Zurich, June 3-4, 2010

Almost all long-distance transfer of conceptions, institutions and
practices was, and still is, shaped by one very peculiar setting: it
is done by individuals and groups living in diaspora networks. But
this implies mediating between parallel reference frames, switching
forth and back between a home and one or more host cultures, in short:
"speaking multiple tongues".

This continuous merger of home and host conceptions, institutions and
practices into hitherto unknown new ones made, and still makes,
diaspora the one major place of intercultural mediation and
transcultural negotiation. The question how this multilingualism (in
its widest sense) peculiar of all diaspora shapes the transfer of
culture will be the focus of our workshop on "Entangled By Multiple
Tongues: The Role of Diaspora in the Transfer of Culture".


Date and Venue

University of Zurich, Ethnographic Museum (Völkerkundemuseum),
Pelikanstrasse 40, 8001 Zurich, Switzerland (http://
www.musethno.uzh.ch).


Conveners

Mareile Flitsch, University of Zurich, Department of Social and
Cultural Anthropology/Ethnographic Museum, and Andreas Kaplony,
University of Zurich, Oriental Institute.


This workshop is an activity of the University Priority Research
Program "Asia and Europe" (http://www.asienundeuropa.uzh.ch), Research
Field 2: "Entangled Histories".
Support

The Swiss-Asia Society (http://www.sagw.ch/asiengesellschaft.html);
the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences ((http://
www.sagw.ch); and the University of Zurich, University Priority
Research Program "Asia and Europe" (http://www.asienundeuropa.uzh.ch).
Further Information and Registration

For all further information (incl. the flyer), see our website
(http://www.ori.uzh.ch/actual/conferences/tongues.html). You are
kindly asked to register with cantele(at)vmz.uzh.ch. There are no
conference fees.


Program

Thursday, June 3, 2010

A. Diasporas of the Wider Mediterranean

9.00 am: Jörg Lanckau, Zurich: " 'The Highest': The Cultural
    Translation of Monotheism in the Hellenistic Period"

9.45 am: Andreas Kaplony, Zurich and Raffaele Luiselli, Florence, "The
    Arabization and Islamization of the Administration of Syria and Egypt
    As Viewed by Bilingual Greek-Arabic Documents (550-750 CE)"

Break

11.00 am: Hans-Lukas Kieser, Zurich, "Transfer of Revolutionary
    Language in the Diaspora? The Case of the Russian Socialist Helphand
    Parvus in Switzerland, Germany and Istanbul"

11.45 am: Leyla von Mende, Berlin, " 'Mecque de la pédagogie': Two
    Ottoman Study Guides and Their Plea for Swiss Pedagogics"

Lunch

2.00 pm: Patrick Brozzo, Zurich, "Legal Diaspora: Islamic and Jewish
    Marriage Laws in Europe"

B. Diaporas Along the Silk Road

2.45 pm: Wolfgang Behr, Zurich, "Diglossia and Alloglottographia in
    Late Pre-Imperial Siniform Writing from Southern China"

Break

4.00 pm: Jörg Plassen, Bochum, "Some Tentative Musings on the
    Influence of Multilingual Settings on the Reception of Buddhism in
    East Asia"

4.45 pm: Erling von Mende, Princeton and Berlin, "The Lantern Bearers.
    How the Qidan Saved Chinese Culture Through the Alien Dynasties of the
    Jurchen Jin and Mongol Yuan (1115-1368)"

8.00 pm: Evening Program


Friday, June 4th, 2010

C. Diasporas of the Indian Ocean

9.00 am: Mareile Flitsch, Zurich, "Hesitant Hands on Changing Tables:
    Negotiating Dining Patterns in Multilingual and Diaspora Contexts"

9.45 am: Dhruv Raina, New Delhi and Heidelberg: "Speaking in Many
    Tongues: Nineteenth Century Projects in the Cultural Translation of
    Science)"

Break

D. The New Global Diasporas

11.00 am: Hamid Naficy, Evanston Il., Accented Cinema's Mode of
    Production and Multilinguality

11.45 am: Rohit Jain, Zurich, "Biographicity, Cultural Translation and
    Translocality: Multiple Representations of 'Indianness' Among Second
    Generation Indians Socialized in Switzerland"

Lunch

2.00 pm: Nathalie Böhler, Zurich: "Made in Thailand: The Role and
    Perception of Diasporic Filmmakers in Contemporary Thai Cinema"




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