Program
› WEDNESDAY JUNE 9
9.00-11.00 Registration and Opening Words
11.00-12.30 SESSION I: Policing Migration
Frank Caestecker (Ghent University), Talking to Myself versus Talking to the State: The Use of State Generated Biographical Traces
Gur Alroey (University of Haifa), New Sources for Understanding Jewish Migration in the 20th Century
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS I: Adam Walaszek (Jagiellonian University Krakow):
Central Eastern Europeans Crossing the Atlantic
14.30-15.00 Coffee Break
15.00-16.30 SESSION 2: Northern Europeans to South America
Cecilia Alvstad (University of Oslo), Swedish Latin American In-Betweeners: What Migrant Narratives from Around 1900 Tell Us About Migrant Identity, Language and Translation
Ute Ritz-Deutch (SUNY Cortland), German Colonists in Southern Brazil: Navigating Multiple Identities and the Brazilian Frontier
Elizabeth Vik (University of Oslo), Norwegian Migration to Buenos Aires
16.30-17.00 SESSION 3 (North-)American Diasporic Communities
Sostene Massimo Zangari (University of Milan), Generational Perspectives on the Immigrant Experience: The Lower East Side in Abraham Cahan and Michael Gold
Nicola Maurizio Strazzanti (University of Catania), Processing Alphabet City in Abraham Cahan’s Yekl
Marion Huibrechts (University of Leuven), The Call for Belgian Emigration to the United States during the 1840s and 1850s
17.30-19.00 Reception at Antwerp City Hall
Opening words by Philip Heylen, Vice Mayor for Culture and Tourism, City of Anwerp
› THURSDAY, JUNE 10
9.00-10.30 SESSION 4: The Transit City
Ron Geaves (Liverpool Hope University), Steamships, Hospitals, and Funerals: Liminal Spaces in 19th C. Liverpool’s Narratives of Transit
Rosa Reicher (University of Heidelberg), “Little Jerusalem”: Jewish Economic Space and Entrepeneurship in Dublin
Mandy Nauwelaerts and Bram Beelaert (Red Star Line Museum): The Red Star Line Buildings as Place of Transit and lieu de mémoire
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-12.30 SESSION 5: Rites of Passage
Marguérite Corporaal and Christopher Cusack (University of Nijmegen), Rites of Passage: The Coffin Ship as Site of Immigrants’ Identity Formation in Irish and Irish-American Fiction
Babs Boter (Free University Amsterdam), Of Heavenly Sensations and Physical Examinations: Some European Transatlantic Journeys
Yannis Papadopoulos (Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens), The Ship as Intermediary: An Alternative View of Diaspora Identity Formation
12.30-13.30 Lunch
Lunch talk by Erwin Joos, curator of the Eugeen Van Mieghem Museum
13.30-14.30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS II: Matthew Frye Jacobson (Yale University):
Forgetting Ellis Island
14.30-15.00 Coffee Break
15.00-16.30 SESSION 6: Iconography of Migration
Yeonsik Jung (Texas A&M University), Husband’s First Lesson in Americanism: Americanization as a Gendered Process of Assimilation
Lukasz Albansky (Jagiellonian University, Krakow), Canadian Propaganda and Peasants with Promise: Tales of Galician Migration to Canada before World War I
16.30-17.30 ROUNDTABLE: What Are Migration Museums For?
Chair: Hans Krabbendam (Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg)
Luc Verheyen, Red Star Line Museum, Antwerp
W. I. M. Weber, Zeeuws Maritiem Museum, Vlissingen
Mila Ernst, Centrum voor de Geschiedenis van Migranten, Amsterdam
› FRIDAY, JUNE 11
9.00-10.30 SESSION 7: Borderline Fictions
Maria Lauret (University of Sussex), Tales and Languages of Transit: Buenos Aires, porteño, and Susana Chavez-Silverman’s Killer Crónicas
Ricardo Postal (University of Warsaw), Italian Immigrants in Brazil: Nanetto Pipetta Finds America
Luiza Marinescu (University Spiru Haret, Bucharest), Travelling, Migrating, or Commuting? Transit Places in Romanian Literature
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-12.30 SESSION 8: Autobiographical Fictions
Michael Boyden (Ghent University College/Ghent University), The Other ‘Other Singer’: Antwerp in the Work of Esther Kreitman
An Van Hecke (Lessius University College, Antwerp), Space and Translation in Las genealogías by Margo Glantz
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS IV: Nancy K. Miller (SUNY Buffalo):
Kishinev Redux: Pogrom, Purim, Patrimony
14.30-15.00 Coffee Break
15.00-16.30 SESSION 9: Migration and the Middle Passage
Celeste Ianniciello (University of Naples), Visions of a Contemporary “Middle Passage”: Migration and Floating Histories in Postcolonial Art
Alka Saxena (D.A-V. College, Kanpur), Tales of African Slaves on Board Transatlantic Ships
19.00-21.00 Conference Dinner
› SATURDAY, JUNE 12
11.00-13.30 Red Star Line walk
Keynote speakers
Adam Walaszek (Jagiellonian University Krakow)
Matthew Frye Jacobson (Yale University)
Nancy K. Miller (City University of New York)