CIAO DATE: 03/04

Diaspora: Movement, Memory, Politics and Identity

Table of Contents

Proceedings from a two-day symposium held November 16-17, 2002 at Dickinson College.

• Introduction by Neil B. Weissman and David Commins
Overview
• Diaspora and Disciplinarity Today by Khachig Tölölyan

Movement
• Was There an Italian Diaspora? by Donna R. Gabaccia

• A Diaspora Within the Diaspora: The Emigration of the North African Jew s from Maghreb (1948 -2003) by Colette Zytnicki

• Slave Trade, Black Diaspora and Modernity by Sabine Broeck

Memory
• Jews and Others in Brooklyn and its Diaspora: Constructing an Unlikely Homeland in a Diasporic World by Henry Goldschmidt

• Diasporic Optic and Ethics in the Chinese Cinema by Ping Fu

• Representations of Di Alte Heym (The Old Country) in the Drama of Peretz Hirschbein by Ted Merwin

Politics
• La Guerra Che Preferiamo: Fascist Propaganda Among Italian-Americans by Tullio Pagano

• Ethnicity and Militancy: Japanese-Brazilian Armed Struggle by Jeffrey Lesser

• Black Movements in Latin America (1970-2000) by George Reid Andrews

• The Palestinian Diaspora: Memory, Politics, and Culture by Thomas M. Ricks

Identity
• The French Melting Pot: Immigration and Citizenship in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Cent uries (1789 -1940) by Jean-François Berdah

• Psychic Jerusalem: Exile and Metaphor in Philo of Alexandria by Andrea Lieber

• Le Petite Canada (1830 to 1930): A Century of French Canadian Immigration to Lewiston, Maine and the Preservation of a Linguistic Heritage Over Five Generations Within the Community by Catherine Anne Beaudry

• From the Shtetl to Montreal: Cultural Migrations, Deterritorialization and the Hyperreal Condition in Régine Robin's La Québécoite by Christophe Ippolito

• Enemies Abroad, Friends in the United States: Jewish Diaspora from Alsace-Lorraine vs. Jewish Diaspora From Germany in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Anny Bloch-Raymond

Conclusion
• Diaspora and International Education by Brian Whalen