Belonging, Membership, and Mobility in Global History
An International Conference
April 17-19, 2008
University of Minnesota
The conference is a joint project of the Institute for Global Studies and the
Immigration History Research Center (IHRC)
and an integral part of their collaborative on Global Race, Ethnicity & Migration.
Prof. Dr. Donna Gabaccia, director of the IHRC, serves as the conference chair
This event is free and open to the public.
We do ask that parties interested in attending the conference RSVP to one of the organizers listed below.
For information about the conference:
Allison Lindberg
612-626-1844
Lind1101@umn.edu
Institute for Global Studies
University of Minnesota
214 Social Sciences
267 – 19th Avenue S.
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Position Paper for the Conference (PDF)
Leo Lucassen, University of Leiden, Gijs Kessler, Ulbe Bosma and Jan Lucassen, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam and Moscow, Nancy L. Green, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and David Feldman, Birkbeck College, London
Conference Program
Thursday, April 17
Location: Presidents Room, 3rd Floor Coffman Memorial Union
7:30 p.m. Welcome and Introduction:
Donna Gabaccia, Director, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota
Evelyn Davidheiser, Director, Institute for Global Studies, University of Minnesota.
Keynote Address:
Rogers Brubaker, “Migration and Membership”
Respondents:
Elizabeth Boyle, Unversity of Minnesota
Nancy Green,
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Rogers Brubaker is a professor of sociology at UCLA and the author of several books and numerous articles on social theory, immigration, citizenship, nationalism, and ethnicity. His most recent book, Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town, co-authored with Margit Feischmidt, Jon Fox, and Liana Grancea, was published by Princeton University Press in 2006.
Friday, April 18
Location: 120 Andersen Library
8:30-9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m. Welcome
Donna Gabaccia, Director, IHRC and Evelyn Davidheiser, Director, IGS, University of Minnesota
9:15 a.m. Introduction
Jan Lucassen, International Institute of Social History and Leo Lucassen, University of Leiden
- Explication of the original concept of the three-part conference series;
- summary findings of the first conference; and
- charge and goals for this conference
9:45-10:00 a.m. Coffee Break
10:00 a.m.-12:00 Panel 1: Archaeological Evidence, States, and Stateless Peoples
Moderator: Christel Muller, Universite Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne
Mark Varien, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, " Population Movement Among the Pueblo People of the Mesa Verde Region: A Question of Scale"(RTF) (PDF) (Graphics)
Ibrahima Thiaw, University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar, “From the Senegal River to the Siin: Archaeology of Sereer Migrations in Northern Senegambia” (RTF) (PDF) (Graphics)
Naomi Standen, Newcastle University, and Gwen Bennett, Washington University, “Sedentary vs. Nomad, Sedentary + Nomad? Historical and Archaeological Views on Mobility and Belonging in 1st-Millennium Northeast China” (RTF) (PDF) (Table 1) (Graphics)
Discussion and Q&A
12:00-1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00-3:00 p.m. Panel 2: Borders and Border-Crossers in City States
Moderator: Donna Gabaccia , University of Minnesota
Christel Muller, Universite Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne, “Mobility and Belonging in Antiquity: Greeks and barbarians on the move in the Northern Black Sea” (RTF) (PDF) (Map)
Derek Heng, Ohio State University, “Socio-political Structure, Membership and Mobility in the Pre-Modern Malay Coastal Port-Polity: The Case of Singapore in the Fourteenth Century” (RTF) (PDF)
Natalie Rothman, University of Toronto, Scarborough, “Trans-Imperial Subjects: Mobile Cadres and Articulation of Ethno-Religious Difference between Venice and Istanbul, 1570-1670” (PDF)
Discussion and Q&A
3:00-3:15 p.m. Refreshment Break
3:15-5:15 p.m. Panel 3: Belonging in Early Empires
Moderator: Wim Phillips, University of Minnesota
Ralph Mathisen, University of Illinois, “Becoming Roman, Becoming Barbarian: The Assimilation of Barbarians into the Late Roman World” (RTF) (PDF)
Mu-Chou Poo, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, ”To Become a Chinese: Cultural Consciousness and Political Legitimacy in China from Han to Tang” (RTF) (PDF)
Susan Ramirez, Texas Christian University, “Inside and Out: The Theory and Practice of Andean Allegiances” (RTF) (PDF)
Discussion and Q&A
7:00 p.m. Party
Saturday, April 19
Location: 120 Andersen Library
8:00-8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m. Panel 4: Mobility, Insiders and Outsiders in Early Modern Empires
Moderator: Giancarlo Casale, University of Minnesota
Nadeem Rezavi, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, “Iranian Immigration in India, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - A Social and Cultural Profile” (RTF) (PDF)
Tijana Krstic, Penn State University, “Can the Twain Ever Meet?—Habsburg Subjects as Converts to Islam in 16th-Century Ottoman Istanbul” (RTF) (PDF)
Nicholas Breyfogle, Ohio State University, "The Possibilities of Empire: Russian Sectarian Migration to South Caucasia and the Refashioning of Social Boundaries" (RTF) (PDF)
10:30-10:45 a.m. Coffee Break
11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Panel 5: Indigeneity and Belonging in a World of Nation States
Moderator: David Feldman, Birkbeck College, University of London
Dorothy Hodgson, Rutgers University, “Being Maasai, Becoming Indigenous: Challenges to State Sovereignty and Citizenship” (RTF) (PDF)
Margaret Werry, University of Minnesota, “Open Source Indigene: Property and Personhood in a Tourist State” (RTF) (PDF)
Discussion and Q&A
1:00-2:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00-3:00 p.m. Plenary Discussion of Conference Program
Moderator: Donna Gabaccia, IHRC
Brief Comments by Ulbe Bosma, International Institute of Social History, Gijs Kessler, International Institute of Social History, Dirk Hoerder, Arizona State University, and Ted Farmer, University of Minnesota
3:00-4:00 p.m. Plenary: From Pre-circulated paper to publication
Moderator: Leo Lucassen, Leiden University
Sponsors: Institute for Global Studies and Immigration History Research Center
Co-sponsors: Department of Sociology, Department of African and Afro-American Studies