Speakers

Ladan Affi, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Killing the State, Sustaining the Clan: The Role of Diasporic Somalis in Promoting Conflict"

Francis Bradley, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"One Center, Two Poles: Islam and the New Universal in Nineteenth Century Peninsular Southeast Asia"

Aparna Dharwadker, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"'Mother India!' 'India,' and Anti-Cosmopolitanism"

Vinay Dharwadker, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"The Migrant Cosmopolitan: Re-Reading Rushdie Twenty Years Later"

Helen Finch, University of Leeds
"It seems to me sometimes that we never got used to being on this earth": W.G. Sebald and the Anglo-Irish Diaspora"

Susan Stanford Friedman, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
"Beyond Cosmopolitanism 'From Below' in Women's Writing about Diaspora: Monica Ali, Kiran Desai, and Cosmopolitan Cultural Theory"

Gabriele Griffin, York University
"'Meanwhile in another world...': South Asian Audiences in the UK"

Stephen Howe, Bristol University
"Caribbean Intellectuals, Colonialism, and Cosmopolitanism"

Deborah Jenson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Diasporan Decadence or Cosmopolitan Decadence? The Fall of Rome as a Migration Paradigm

Eliza Mary Johannes, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (co-authored with Ezekial Kalipeni)
"Globalization and the Migration of Health Care Personnel from African Countries"

Ezekiel Kalipeni, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (co-authored with Eliza Mary Johannes)
"Globalization and the Migration of Health Care Personnel from African Countries"

Vicky Lantz, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Legitimacy and Cultural Citizenship: The Caribbean Diaspora, Black Britain, and the Theatre of Mustapha Matura"

B. Venkat Mani, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Forty-Four Months in Germany and Turkey (1920): Lala Har Dayal and the "Hindu-German Conspiracy"

H. Adlai Murdoch, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Metropolitan Caribbean Diasporas: New Geographies of the Postcolonial"

Tejumola Olaniyan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Epistemic Histories of Afro-Futures

Rory Pilossof, The University of Sheffield
"Unwanted and Unchanged: The Language of the White Farming Community's Reactions to the Recent Fast Track Land Reforms in Zimbabwe"

Ato Quayson, University of Toronto
"Name of the Rose or Paradigm Shift?: Thinking Africa Through Diaspora Studies"

Vlad Strukov, University of Leeds
"Digital Intelligentsia: Russian Diaspora and User Generated Media"

Nina Sutherland, University of Leeds
"Literatures and Films of Francophone Diaspora: Or How to Situate Oneself Within a Cosmos of Writings about the Second World War"

Jane Wilkinson, University of Leeds
"Welcome to Reality': Representations of (in)hospitality in films from the German-Polish border"

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