2006, Routes into the Diaspora

The University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities, the Korean Studies Program, and the Center for International and Comparative Studies present a conference to explore citizens at risk from a global and comparative perspective.

Featuring the première of Koryo Saram The Unreliable People, a documentary film about Koreans in Kazakhstan.

Conference Highlights (full program below)

November 6, 2006, 5:00 PM
Première at the Michigan Theater
Koryo Saram The Unreliable People (57 minutes)
Director: Y. David Chung; Executive Producer: Meredith Jung-En Woo; Director of Photography and Editor: Matt Dibble

Welcoming Remarks: Terrence J. McDonald, Dean, College of Literature, Science and the Arts

Followed by a public conversation between Y. David Chung and Meredith Jung-En Woo

Koryo Saram received generous support from:
University of Michigan
- Korean Studies Program
- The Office of the Vice President for Research
- Center for Chinese Studies
- Center for Japanese Studies
- Institute for the Humanities
- Center for International and Comparative Studies
- Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies
- School of Art + Design
The Nam Family Foundation
Douglas and Sabrina Gross
The Overseas Korean Foundation
The Steve S. Kang Young Artists & Scholars Fund
The Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies, The School of Advanced International Studies

November 7, three panels at Palmer Commons
- The Unreliable People: The Korean Diaspora in the Former Soviet Union
- Diaspora and its Discontents: The Place of Race and Gender in Debates on Immigration in Europe
- Trafficking in Persons

Related Exhibition, November 6-10, 2006
Works by Elshafei Dafalla Mohamed, artist: MFA Candidate, School of Art + Design, University of Michigan
Institute for the Humanities, Room 1022, Osterman Common Room, 202 South Thayer Street, Ann Arbor

Speakers
Y. David Chung
Richard Danziger
Nacira Guénif-Souilamas
Daniel Herwitz
Alexander Kan
German Kim
Steven Lee
Terrence J. McDonald
Elshafei Dafalla Mohamed
Damani Partridge
Helle Rytkønen
Ronald G. Suny
Balázs Szalontai
Neferti Tadiar
Miriam Ticktin
Meredith Jung-En Woo

Sign language interpretation upon advance request

For more information: www.lsa.umich.edu/humin
humin@umich.edu
734 936-3518

This conference is part of the Global Fellowship Program funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Co-sponsors: Institute for the Humanities, Korean Studies Program, and Center for International and Comparative Studies (CICS)

All events free and open to the public

FULL CONFERENCE PROGRAM - November 7, 2006
University of Michigan
Palmer Commons , Floor 3, Forum Hall
100 Washtenaw Avenue, Ann Arbor

9:00 - 11:30 AM
The Unreliable People: The Korean Diaspora in the Former Soviet Union
Chair: Meredith Jung-En Woo

Steven Lee
Ph.D. Candidate, Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University
“Viktor Tsoi at Sundance: Soviet Counterculture and the Korean Diaspora”

German Kim
Director, Korean Studies, Kazakh National University named after Al-Farabi
“Routes into Kazakhstan: Diasporic Communities in Comparative Perspective”

Alexander Kan
Author, Kazakhstan
“A Third Hamlet: Global Diasporas of the 21st Century and the Literary Formation of a Marginal Hero”

Ronald G. Suny
Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Social and Political History at the University of Michigan and Professor Emeritus of Political Science and History, The University of Chicago
“Empire and Nation-Making: How the Soviets Dealt with Non-Russians from Lenin to Stalin”

Balázs Szalontai
History Department, Central European University, Budapest
“Caught between Empires: A Comparative Analysis of Stalin’s Deportation of the Korean Minority”

1:00 - 3:30 PM
Diaspora and its Discontents: The Place of Race and Gender in Debates on Immigration in Europe
Chair: Miriam Ticktin, Women’s Studies and Anthropology

Helle Rytkønen
Affiliated Scholar, Center for Comparative Studies of Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University
“The Mohammed Cartoons: Drawing the Boundaries of a Raced and Gendered Muslim Diaspora in Europe”

Miriam Ticktin
“Sex, Slavery and Suffering: Narratives of Victimhood in Claims to a Postcolonial French Citizenship”

Damani Partridge
Anthropology and Center for Afroamerican and African Studies
“Seeing ‘Turkish’ Women and Racializing Islam amidst the Failure of German Schools”

Nacira Guénif-Souilamas
Maître de conférences, University of Paris 13
“Uses of sexism and ethnicity in the containment of the other”

4:00 – 6:30 PM
Trafficking in Persons
Chair: Daniel Herwitz, Institute for the Humanities

Richard Danziger
Counter Trafficking, International Organization for Migration, Geneva
“Trafficking in Persons: The Dark Side of Migration”

Neferti Tadiar
History of Consciousness, UC-Santa Cruz
“Diaspora and Disappearance: The Global Course of Filipino Nationalism”

Carole S. Vance
Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights, Columbia University
“'Hiss the Villain': Narratives of Trafficking and Globalization”

Speaker Biographies