1125 Colonel By Drive
Carleton University, Ottawa, ON K1S 5R1
Canada
Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies
Metropolis
Migration and Diaspora Studies
The Magna Fund for Russian Studies
PROGRAM
Thursday, March 20, 2014
8:30-9:00 Breakfast & Registration
9:00-9:10
Opening Remarks
Piotr Dutkiewicz (Carleton University)
Howard Duncan (Metropolis Project)
9:10-9:45
Keynote speaker
Soviet/Post-Soviet Migration and Diasporas in Transnational Perspectives
Jeff Sahadeo (Carleton University)
Director of the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies
9:45-10:10 Coffee break
10:10-12:10
Panel 1
From Émigrés to Diasporas:
The Discourse of Identity Transformation
Chair and Discussant:
Andrea Chandler (Carleton University)
Alexia Bloch (University of British Columbia)
“Other Mothers”: Assessing discourses on nurturing and histories of mobility in post-Soviet space
Tunç Aybak (Middlesex University)
Russians in Istanbul: Melancholic cosmopolitanism in liminal sites
James Casteel (Carleton University)
Post-Soviet Migration and Changing Memory Regimes in Germany: Narratives of Soviet times among Jewish quota refugees and ethnic German Aussiedler
Walter Sperling (Ruhr University Bochum)
“Dreaming of Grozny”: Nostalgia, memory and politics of belonging to multiethnic community
12:10-13:10 Lunch
13:10-15:10
Panel 2
Global Mobility and Linkages
Chair and Discussant:
James Casteel (Carleton University)
Zvi Gitelman (University of Michigan)
The Consequences of Russian Jewish Migration
Moshe Semyonov (Tel Aviv University)
Formation of Identities among Soviet Immigrants in Israel: Soviet and Post – Soviet Jewish Immigration
Anna Slavina (University of Toronto)
Jewish Russians, Russian Israelis and “Jewski” Canadians: Youth and the Negotiation of Identity and Belonging
15:10-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-17:15
Roundtable
Ukraine in Crisis:
The Role of Diasporas and International Communities
Chair: Howard Duncan (Metropolis Project)
Milana Nikolko (V. VernadskyTaurida National University & Carleton University)
Taras Kuzio (University of Alberta)
Natalia Khaneko-Friesen (University of Saskatchewan)
David Carment (Carleton University)
18:00-19:30 Reception – River Building Atrium
Friday, March 21, 2014
8:30-9:00 Breakfast & Registration
9:00-9:10
Opening remarks
Milana Nikolko (V. VernadskyTaurida National University & Carleton University)
Martin Geiger (Carleton University)
9:10-9:45
Keynote speaker
Diasporas, Development, and Homelands in Eurasia
Timothy E. Heleniak (Department of Geography,
George Washington University)
9:45-10:00 Coffee Break
10:00-12:00
Panel 3
Post-Soviet Migration and Ethnic Dynamic in Europe
Chair and Discussant:
Myriam Richard (University of Ottawa)
AnnaPechurina (Leeds Metropolitan University)
New Russian Diasporas Abroad: Exploring the global and UK geography of post-Soviet Russian speaking migration
Natalia Khanenko-Friesen (University of Saskatchewan)
Migrants No More: Ukrainians in southern Europe as new diasporas (comparative perspectives from Italy and Portugal)
Stanislav Budnitskiy (Carleton University)
Russian Diaspora in Estonia’s Nation Branding Discourse: From “National Catastrophe” to “Ethnic Diversity”
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-15:00
Panel 4
Remittances and the Economic, Political and Social Impact of Diasporas in their Home States
Chair and Discussant:
David Carment (Carleton University)
Vanessa Ruget (Salem State University)
Labour Migration and Diaspora Engagement in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan
Jennifer Solveig Wistrand (Georgetown University, CERES)
The Social Consequences of Seasonal Labor Migration: A case study from rural Azerbaijan
Ryan Buchanan (University of Toronto)
Making Home in (Un)Familiar Places: The experience of emplacement among the Meskhetians of Georgia
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-17:00
Panel 5
Expats and Professional Diasporas
Chair and Discussant:
Martin Geiger (Carleton University)
Marina Sorokina (Alexander Solzenitcyn Centre for the Study of the Russian Diaspora)
Community in Transition: Russian academics home and abroad in the 20th and 21stcenturies
Polina Kliuchnikova (Durham University)
The ‘USSR in Newcastle’: The language for shared identities and community-building practices of Russian-speaking post-Soviet migrants of the UK
Irina Molodikova (Central European University)
“Russian Policy Toward Compatriots:
Diversities and contradictions of its implementation”
17:30-17:40
Closing remarks
Martin Geiger (Carleton University)
Milana Nikolko (V. VernadskyTaurida National University & Carleton University)
