Moving people, changing culture conference, programme Cardiff University, 13th – 14th November 2014 Thursday 13th November Wallace lecture theatre, Main Building 12.00 Registration 13.00 Welcome from Prof. Alasdair Whittle and Dr. Richard Madgwick 13.15 John Fahy (University of Cambridge) Creating culture: How to build a Vedic city in modern India 13.35 Prof. Nilanjana Gupta (Jadavpur University, Kolkata) New lives in paradise 13.55 Dr. André Joanilho and Dr. Mariângela Joanilho (State University of Londrina) Tropical Germans: building an identity in a small Brazilian town 14.15 Dr. Marco Santello (University of Warwick) The Transnationalizing Modern Languages Project in Australia: mobilising linguistic and semiotic resources 14.35 Robert Sharples (University of Leeds) Young migrants and institutional cultures - a linguistic ethnographic approach 14.55 Coffee 15.20 Dr. Uday Chandra (Max Planck Institute, Göttingen) Stitching selves, spanning spaces: migrants and mobility in an Indian megacity 15.40 Dr. Doerte Weig (University of Cologne/CSIC Barcelona) The Baka: Transition of mobility patterns and social organisation in Gabon 16.00 Dr. Elena Isayev (University of Exeter) A time before diaspora in ancient Italy? 16.20 Dr. Qiaowei Wei (Shanghai University) Negotiating the frontier: Understanding the regional cultural change in the Western Zhou expansion in ancient China 16.40 Dr. Jennifer Jones and Dr. Jacqui Mulville (University of Cantabria and Cardiff University) The impact of cultural spread on diet in the Scottish Islands from the first farmers to the arrival of the Vikings 17.00 Keynote: Prof. Jane Evans (NIGL) The application of Pb isotopes as a cultural fingerprint in human migration studies 17.30 Wine reception 19.00 Conference dinner for delegates – location tbc Friday 14th November Beverton lecture theatre, Main Building 9.30 Jonathan Stafford (Kingston University, London) Global subjectivities: Victorian colonial steamship passengers and the cultural logic of empire 9.50 Shona McHugh (Swansea University) Celtic diaspora in America and the subsequent impact of the Scottish and Irish on American culture 10.10 Dr. Mercedes Durham (Cardiff University) Demographic change leading to a dialect shift: a real time study of Shetland schoolchildren 10.30 Dia Flores (University College London) "Things are happening" in the Filipina migrant population in London 10.50 Audrey Lenoel (University of Bristol) Burden or empowerment? The impact of migration and remittances on women left behind in Morocco 11.15 coffee 11.35 Robina Samuddin (Cardiff University) The fight to care my own way: cultural care vs. procedural definitions 11.55 Dr. Lia Shimada and Dr. Christopher Stephens (University of Roehampton) Reversing the mission: migration, theology and cultural change in the British Methodist Church 12.15 Dafina Paca (Cardiff University) ‘Schatzi': making meaning of diaspora 12.35 Joseph Cronin (Queen Mary, University of London/ Leo Baeck Institute, London ) Integrating Jews from the former Soviet Union into Germany's Jewish communities: 1990-2005 12.55 Maryam Bham (Cardiff University) The use of Arabic Islamic formulaic expressions amongst non-Arabic speaking British Muslims 13.15 lunch 14.15 Kerrie Holloway (Queen Mary, University of London) Migration for cultural preservation: the SS Sinaia and Spanish exiles of 1939 14.35 Dr. Craig Robertson (University of Leeds) The music stays the same: migration, music and identity 14.55 Hamza Beg (University of Cambridge) Before East was East: British Pakistani cinema in the 1980s 15.15 Mari Lowe (Cardiff University) Immigration, 'race' and media practices: reading newspaper stories about Cardiff Docklands from 1919-1939 15.35 Yahya Barry (University of Edinburgh) The emergence of neo-nationalist iconographic cultures in response to Islam 15.55 coffee 16.20 Keynote: Prof. Alex Bentley (University of Bristol) Neolithic community differentiation and population movement 17.00 End