Transnational Families: Emotions and Belonging

Programme

Thursday 11 May
Location: Medical Biology Centre, LT2 (Lisburn Road)

9.30 Coffee
#10.00 Welcome by David Hayton, Head of School
School of History and Anthropology, Queens University Belfast

10.10 – 10.30 Maruška Svašek
School of History and Anthropology, Queens University Belfast

Introduction

10.30 – 11.15 Zlatko Skrbiš
Department of Sociology, University of Queensland, Australia
Transnational Families: Theorizing migration, emotions and belonging

11.15- 12.00 Loretta Baldassar
Department of Anthropology, University of West Australia
The Role of Return Visits in Transnational Caregiving

12.00 – 13.30 Lunch

13.30 – 14.15 Anna Wanwah Lo
Chinese Welfare Association
Chinese migrants in Northern Ireland and Transnational Family Links

14.15 – 15.00 Patrick Fitzgerald
Centre for Migration Studies, Omagh
Exploring ‘emotional triggers’ of Irish emigrant letters: the evidence of the Irish Emigration Database

15.00 – 15.30 Coffee

15.30 – 16.15 Margaret Littler
School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, University of Manchester
Intimacy and Affect in Turkish-German Writing
16.15 – 17.00 Humberto Gatica: poet

19.00 Dinner

Friday 12 May
Location: Room 302 PFC

9.00 – 9.45 Sara Ahmed
Cultural Studies, Goldsmith College
Between Feelings: Migration and mixed-race families

9.45 – 10.30 Louise Ryan, Middlesex University
Navigating the emotional terrain of families 'here' and 'there':
women, migration and motherhood.

10.30 – 11.15 Coffee

11.15– 12.00 Breda Gray
Women’s Studies, University of Limerick
Making and remaking a transnational sense of home

12.00 – 12.45 Brian Lambkin,
Centre for Migration Studies, Omagh
'The Return of Thomas Mellon to County Tyrone in 1882: a case study in
transnational belonging

12.45 – 13.00 Final comments

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

If you are interested in participating, or have any queries please contact m.svasek@qub.ac.uk