Museu da Emigração e das Comunidades

Multiple Belongings: Diaspora and Transnational Homes Conference

The Histories of Home Subject Specialist Network’s Second Annual Conference, Multiple Belongings: Diaspora and Transnational Homes (21 May 2010, British Library) is an exciting opportunity to explore the meanings associated with the material culture of transnational homes from the late eighteenth-century to the present, with a particular emphasis on contemporary homes. Papers will focus on material aspects of setting up home in another country, such as room layouts, furnishings and other possessions and how these are adapted, integrated or negotiated between host nation and place of origin. Wider meanings of home will be explored through concepts of belonging and questions around what and where home is, where and when people “feel at home”.
 
The conference programme reflects both the interdisciplinary nature of the SSN and the international scope of the theme with a wide range of backgrounds and methodologies represented including religious studies, geography, cultural and architectural history, material culture, ethnology and museology.

Speakers include
Hester Dibbits Researcher, Meertens Institute, Amsterdam
Fostering nature - patterns in decorative practices among migrant families

Victoria Gardner Lecturer, Regent’s College, London
Home, advertisements and identities in the early nineteenth-century British world

Madeleine Hatfield (née Dobson) PhD Cadidate, Royal Holloway, University of London
Moving ‘home’?: Home and homemaking amongst transnational return migrant households

Candace Hoffman-Hussain PhD Candidate, Lancaster University
Object-based narratives of ‘homeland’ for British Muslim men in interfaith marriages

Joanna Long PhD Cadidate, Queen Mary, University of London
Fifty plants, one rug and no walls: Palestinians making a home in England

Simon MacDonald PhD Cadidate, University of Cambridge
British and Irish expatriate households in late eighteenth-century Paris

Özlem Savas Lecturer, Bilkent University, Ankara
Displaced furniture and shifting belongings: reconstitution of Turkish home in Vienna

Nina Vollenbröker Lecturer, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
Rootedness in mobility - identity, space and spatial relationships in the nineteenth-century American West

Thomas Michael Walle Curator, Norsk Folkemuseum, Oslo
Living, documenting, and exhibiting: Transnational homes in Norway and Pakistan

Tessa Wild Curator, Thames & Solent Region, National Trust
'A fresh breeze from a distant land blew through his pen': Khadambi Asalache's creation of a home of his own

Linda Young Senior Lecturer, Deakin University, Melbourne
The cultural baggage of home

Delegate fees are £70/£45 (full-time students), including a light lunch and refreshments. Booking deadline: Friday 14th May.

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For further information please contact SSN Co-ordinator Krisztina Lackoi on klackoi@geffrye-museum.org.uk