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GLOBALIZATION AND MOBILITIES SEMINAR
University of Chicago, Center in Paris
6 Rue Thomas Mann
75013 Paris
JUNE 5, Thursday
9:30 am Opening Remarks: Dominique Vidal, Catherine Lejeune (URMIS, LARCA, Université Paris Diderot) - Salikoko
Mufwene, James Hevia, Ramon Gutiérrez (University of Chicago)
10:00 am to 12:00 am Session 1
Moving Signs and Senses: Histories of Color and Communication (Chair: Ramon Gutiérrez, University of Chicago)
Salikoko Mufwene (University of Chicago): “Colonization, globalization, Mobility, and Diasporas: Language Spread and Speciation”
Emily Osborn (University of Chicago): “The Color Red in the Early Modern Atlantic World”
Delphine Pagès (INALCO/CERMOM): “Imaginaries of Migration: a case study from Egyptian Cinema”
Lunch
1:45 pm to 3:45 pm Session 2
Mobilizing Labour and Commodities: Military Logistics and Commercial Regimes (Chair: Gilles Guiheux, UPD/CESSMA))
James Hevia (University of Chicago): “Jackasses for India! (Mules and Zebrules too): Mapping Empire through Animal Breeding and
Animal Labor”
Stacie Kent (University of Chicago): “From Imperial Commerce to Transnational Capital: Commercial Governance in Late Qing”
Carine Pina (Associate Researcher, UPD/CESSMA): Migration, States and Power: New Perspectives and New Relations?
Coffee break
4:00 pm to 6:00 pm Session 3
Following Popular Beats: Cultural and Scientific Collaborations (Chair: Laurent Faret, UPD/CESSMA)
Celeste Day Moore (University of Chicago): “Spinning Race: The French Record Industry and the Transantlantic Mobility”
Larisa Jasarevic (University of Chicago): “In Pursuit of Local Connection. Destination: Feeling, Awkward.”
Altaïr Despres (Labex CAP, Associate Researcher, URMIS): ”The Art of Being Global. Practices of Transnational Mobility among
African Contemporary dancers”
JUNE 6, Friday
9:30 am to 10:45 am Session 4
Setting the legible subjects: State and Non-governmental technologies of settlement (Chair: Manuela Martini, UPD/ICT)
Maria E. Balandran-Castillo (University of Chicago): “Conflicting Notions of Settlement: Plyler v. Doe and Mexico’s Encuesta
Nacional de Emigracion, 1977-1982
Speranta Dumitru (UP5/CERSES): "Who is an Immigrant? Methodological Nationalisms and the Construction of "Migrants" in the
20th Century
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Coffee break
11:00 am to 1:00 pm Session 4 : continued
Antoine Pécoud (UP13, Associate Researcher, URMIS): “Making Sense of international migration: an analysis of international
migration narratives”
Erin Moore (University of Chicago): “Toward a Semiotics of Global Circulations: Politics, NGO Networks, and Transvaluation at the
International Day of the Girl Child”
Catherine Wihtol de Wenden (Sciences Po/CERI): “Towards a Global Governance of Migrations? The Difficult Collective
Mobilization of “Strange Bed Fellows”
Lunch
2:30 pm Business meeting