Migrant Cross-Cultural Encounters: A Multidisciplinary Conference Castle Lecture Theatre Complex, University of Otago Draft Programme (at 7 October) Monday 24 November 2014 9.00-9.30 Registration 9.30-10.00 Mihi/Welcome 10-12 Session 1: Transnational Networks Session 2: Citizenship, Law, Race Veronica Bremer, The Second Wave of Bauhaus Artists: The Collings Duo and the Two Richards in Australia Caroline Sawyer, Migrants, Citizenship and the Law: The Citizenship Amendment Act 2005 Rosi Crane, Wandering Scientific Workers of the Late Nineteenth Century Antipodean World Gregory Rawlings, The Politics of Discretion and the Changing Administration of ‘Race’ Based Immigration Policy: Travel, Migration and Mobility between Vanuatu and Australia, 1945-1953 Diana Moore, The Kindergarten and Transnational Nationalists in Italy, 1859-1890 Catherine Ladds, Eurasians in China and Britain: Race, Citizenship and Mobility in the Empire World, c. 1900-1950 Patrick Coleman, ‘Migration and Transnational Fed’: The Antipodean Orange Order Hilary Chung, Failures of departure and arrival 12-1 Lunch 1-3 Session 3: Experiences Session 4: Imagining Borders and Imagining Home Diane Comer, Braided Narratives: Migrant Experiences and the Personal Essay Sylvia Ang, The struggle of imaginaries: Chinese-ness according to the state, migrants and locals in Singapore Michael O’Connor, Painting a Picture: The Role of the Media in the CrossCultural Irish Experience of Post-Earthquake Christchurch Andrew J. Hennlich, Space Invaders: Border Crossing in Daniel Halter’s Heartland Liz Goode and Judith Sander, Communication, cultural identity and displacement: exploring the cultural identities of adult inter-country adoptees in 21st century Australia Jyhene Kebsi, The Egyptian Literaure and Film of Migration Tuhina Ganguly, “At home in India”: Narratives of Home, Belonging and Identity among Western Spiritual Seekers in India Rosemary Baird and Lyndon Fraser, ‘The Return of the Kiwi’: New Zealand Migrants to Australia, Cross-Cultural Encounters and ‘Going Home’ 3.00-3.30 Afternoon Tea 3.30-5 Keynote Address Professor Ann Curthoys, Scots and Indigenous Peoples in the Australian Colonies Tuesday 25 November 2014 8.30-9 Registration 9-10.30 Keynote Address Associate Professor Ian Smith, Title TBA 10.30-11 Morning Tea 11-12.30 Session 5: Encounters Session 6: Performances Session 7: Intimacies Kate Lee, From Accommodation to Violence: Samuel Marsden, Anglican Hymns and the First Contact of the British and the Maori in the 19th Century R. Swaminathan, Diversity, Algorithms and the Global City: Migrants and Digitally Scripted Spaces of Mumbai Annie Wu, “I am from Vietnam, but I have Taiwanese Stories” Jesse Buck, Narrating a first encounter of communal coexistence between Parsis and Hindus in India Andrew Butcher, The Cross in cross-cultural: the church, three encounters and the struggle for national identity Rebecca March, Flawless Fictions: cross-cultural enchantment and discontent in African dance and capoeira practices in Australia Swaroopa Unni, Dance and Ethnicity: Bharatanatyam in New Zealand Elisabeth Dewi, Extramarital Affairs as Social Cultural Arrangements among Indonesian Female Domestic Workers Community in West Java Yunfei Zhao, Breaking family overseas – Chinese immigrants’ experiences leading to divorce in New Zealand 12.30-1.30 Lunch 1.30-3 Session 8: Ethnicity and Employment Session 9: Uncomfortable Pasts Session 10: Coexistence, Concentration and Consciousness Esther Ngocha-Chaderopa, Managing racism and discrimination: the case for migrant care workers in Dunedin Nancy J. Pollock, Radio-active fallout from US Tests in the Marshall Islands – the aftermath of contamination of women’s bodies Junjia Ye, Spatializing the politics of co-existence: Gui Ju (规矩) in Singapore Zhongwen Zhang, Chinese in Africa: an analysis Kristyn Harman, “A definite feeling of Nila Sharma, Recent Change in Geographic of Chinese restaurants’ employers and employees in Lusaka, Zambia Office of Ethnic Affairs, Unlocking the leadership potential of ethnic women antagonism”: Rising Tensions over Clothing at the Featherston Prisoner-of-War Camp in World War Two Jastinder Kaur, The fieldworker as internal other: reflections on being British Indian in Fiji after the 2000 coup Concentration of South Asian Communities in Sydney Suk Koo Rhee, South Koreans’ Double Consciousness and Chosonjok, the Korean Diaspora Returnees 3-3.30 Afternoon Tea 3.30-5 Keynote Address Professor Regina Ganter, Migration, Identity, Authenticity, Indigeneity Wednesday 26 November 2014 8.30-9 Registration 9-10.30 Keynote Address Professor Brenda A. S. Yeoh, The Global City of Encounters 10.30-11 Morning Tea 11-12.30 Session 11: Education Session 12: Displacement Session 13: Entrepreneurs Thomas Babila Sama, African Migrants with Terminal Degrees from Finnish Universities: Opportunities or Dead Ends? Tomas Wilkoszewski, “Leaving home for the sake of our motherland!” Uyghur migration from China to Turkey Andrew Dawson, Migrant entrepreneurial multiculturalism and the presence of discomforting pasts in post-war Bosnia Geena Joseph, “We are now permanent residents”: A social capital approach to the study of Indian International Students in Auckland, New Zealand Mei Ding, Minzu, Migration and Multiculturalism: The Uyghur Diaspora in Australia Office of Ethnic Affairs, Maximising the economic potential of ethnic entrepreneurs in New Zealand Hamizah Abd Hamid, Migrant Entrepreneurs in a Developing Country: The Role of Ties for Migrant Entrepreneurs in Malaysia 12.30-1.30 Lunch 1.30-3 Session 13: Multiculturalism Session 14: Empire Session 15: Economics and Social Ties R. Michelle Schaaf, A Pacific place to stand and belong Catharine Coleborne, Vagrant families: mobility, gender and colonial life in New Zealand, 1860s1910s Judith McKeon, Enchantment and Challenges for Older Economic Migrants Paweł Wróbel, Polish-Welsh encounters in Wales: Challenging monoethnic myths in multicultural environment Daniel Owen Spence, ‘Forgotten men of the navy’: Caymanian Military Migrants during the Shabnam Seyedmehdi, Flirting with a Migratory Destination: A study on the process of place bonding with a focus on emotions and experiences Second World War Michael Horowitz, Assimilation of Two European Jewish Families in Tonga (1869-1975) Kathleen Harrington-Watt, The Indentured Labour Portrait Archive: A photographic ‘encounter’ between the indentured and empire in Mauritius Jaswinder K. Dhillon, Education, Entrepreneurship and Social Mobility in narratives of migrant Sikh families 3-3.30 Afternoon Tea 3.30-5 Session 17: Temporary Migrants Session 18: Cross-Cultural Families Anh Nguyen, Cross-cultural Experiences of Migrant Workers: A Case Study of Vietnam-Korea and Vietnam-Taiwan Temporary Labour Migration Kate Bagnall, Everyday intimacies: women’s cross-cultural interactions on a colonial goldfield Rochelle Bailey, Omankukar tone ruan gerwuten (working together for a better life): Cross-cultural encounters through labour mobility Dorothy McMenamin, Anglo Indians – Experiences of a hybrid migrant community into New Zealand Maine Astonitas, Recruitment, selection and discipline in the Recognized Seasonal Employer’s Scheme (RSE) in New Zealand and the Pacific Karyn Paringatai, E kore a muri e hokia – The route left behind cannot be retraced