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Borders and Identities 2015: Urban Fragmentation(s)
Monday, March 16, 2015
6.30 – 9
pm
Registration / Warm-up
Venue: Restaurant NOLLE, Georgenstraße 203, S-Bahn-Bogen, 10117 Berlin
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Venue: Humboldt University Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Dorotheenstraße 24 / Hegelplatz 1
9 am – 5
pm
10 –
10.45 am
Registration and Help Desk Open
Opening
Prof. Dr. Manfred Krifka (GWZ, member of the board of directors): Opening address
Ministerialdirigent Dr. Dietrich Nelle, Federal Ministry of Education and Research:
Welcome address
Dr. Jutta Koch-Unterseher, Head of the Berlin Senate Section of Economics, Research
and Technology: Welcome address
Hagen Findeis (ZMO), Stefanie Jannedy (ZAS), Dirk Naguschewski (ZfL): Borders and
Identity: Urban Fragmentations
10.45 –
11.45 am
Keynote address (I)
Norma Mendoza-Denton (UCLA Linguistic Anthropology)
Hemispheric Localism and Gang Membership among Latina/o Gangs in Northern
California
Chair: Stefanie Jannedy (ZAS)
Humboldt University, Dorotheenstr. 24, 1.101
11.45 –
12.15 am
Coffee Break
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Session 1
12.15 –
1.45 pm
Track I: Language &
Linguistics
Linguistic Landscapes
Chair: Marzena Żygis (ZAS)
INTERFACE
Berlin
Chair: Dirk Naguschewski
(ZfL)
Klara Bilic Mestric
(University of Zagreb):
Hybridity and Dynamism of
Making of the Self –
Multilingual Habitus of
Children in Eastern Croatian
Urban Spaces
Janet Fuller (Southern
Illinois University
Carbondale): Linguistic
Landscapes in Berlin
Theresa Heyd (University of
Freiburg): From Naija to
Chitown: The New African
Diaspora and sociolinguistic
representations of urban
space
Joanna Kremer (University
of Sheffield): „Where are
the Luxembourgers?“:
Constructions of place,
belonging and foreignness
1.45 –
2.45 pm
Session 2
2.45 –
4.15 pm
Andreas Keller (ZfL Berlin):
Labyrinth, Mauer, Neue
Mitte: Spaces and
Structures, Focus and
Fragmentations in BerlinNarratives (1900-19612011)
Berna Turam (Northeastern
University, Boston): Urban
Space and Democratic
Contestation: Kreuzberg,
the “Turkish Neighborhood”
of Berlin
Track III: Society &
Governance
Urban Planning - State and
Social Actors
Chair: Katrin Bromber
(ZMO)
Anandita Bajpai (Humboldt
University Berlin):
(E)merging faces of India:
Visions of the urban in the
political rhetoric of Indian
prime ministers since 1991
Joseph Rustom
(Brandenburg University of
Technology - CottbusSenftenberg): MultiReligious Societies and the
Right to the City: The Case
of the Al-Bashura District in
Beirut
Natalya Kosmarskaya
(Institute of Oriental
Studies, Russian Academy
of Sciences): Shifting Urban
Divisions and Identities in
Post-Soviet Central Asia:
Comparing Tashkent and
Bishkek
Lunch Break
Track I: Language &
Linguistics
Concepts
Chair: Natalia Gagarina
(ZAS)
Track II: Literature &
Translation
Diversity in Topography
Chair: Matthias Schwartz
(ZfL)
Elin Almér (University of
Jyväskylä): Where it all
starts – Preschool children's
conceptions of
multilingualism
Sebastian Cwiklinski (ZfL
Berlin): Visibility of Ethnic
Differences in Russian
Megapolises: Tatars, Azeris
and Central Asian Turks in
Moscow and Saint
Petersburg
Kate Hammer (University of
London, Birkbeck): 'After
crossing the border' –
linguistic and psychosocial
perspectives on migration
Philipp Schröder (Humboldt
University Berlin) and J.
Otto Habeck (University of
Hamburg): Angst in the
Track III: Society &
Governance
Urban Boundaries
Chair: Ulrike Freitag (ZMO)
Hanna Baumann
(University of Cambridge):
Jerusalem marginalia: the
fragmentation of
Palestinian space and the
frontierisation of the
ghetto
Reza Masoudi Nejad (ZMO
Berlin): Urban Margins, the
refuge for Mohurrum
Processions in Bombay
2
Marion Krause (University
of Hamburg): Linguistic ingroup-heterogeneity: the
case of Russian heritage
speakers in German
4.15 –
4.45 pm
Session 3
4.45 –
6.15 pm
City? Negotiating ethnic and
sexual diversity in
Novosibirsk (Russia)
Secil Dagtas (University of
Waterloo): Religious
Borders: Neo-Ottoman
place-making in Antakya
Ruta Eidukeviciene
(Vytautas Magnus
University): Literary
topographies of two major
Lithuanian cities: the
significance of natural
boundaries for social and
cultural fragmentation of
the city space
Coffee Break
Track I: Language &
Linguistics
Multilingual Cities
Chair: Marzena Żygis (ZAS)
Lisa Bornstein and Jordan
Rockerbie (McGill
University School of Urban
Planning): Planning in multilingual cities: Can we build a
better Babel?
Sarah McMonagle
(University of Hamburg) and
Lorna Carson (Trinity
College Dublin): Language
Diversity in Dublin:
Challenging the
Monolingual Habitus?
Annemarie Sorescu
Marinkovic and Marija Ilic
(Institute for Balkan
Studies), Monica Hutanu
(West University of
Timisoara): Multilingualism
and ethnic fragmentation
on the European periphery:
Romanian language use in
the city of Belgrade
Track II: Literature &
Translation
Suburban subjectivities
Chair: Matthias Schwartz
(ZfL)
Track III: Society &
Governance
Religion and Urban Placemaking
Chair: Ayse Cavdar (ZMO)
Matthias Schwartz (ZfL
Berlin): Rebellion and
Frustration. Fragmented
subjectivities among the
suburban in Polish
contemporary literature
Hew Wai Weng (ZMO
Berlin): Building a Religious
City: the Production of
Islamic Places in the
Suburban of Jakarta
Lydia Wistisen (University
of Stockholm): Suburban
Masculinities – Identity,
alienation and stereotypes
in three contemporary
Swedish suburban
narratives
Shuangzhi Li (University of
Göttingen): Urban Space as
Queer Space in Hans Henny
Jahnns Die Nacht aus Blei
and Herta Müllers Reisende
auf einem Bein
Jan-Markus Vömel
(University of Konstanz):
Reclaiming the Muslim Self
– Notes on Islamist
Urbanism in Turkey, ca.
1960‐2000
Toufoul Abou-Hodeib
(University of Oslo):
Fragmented Publics: Class,
Consumption, and Leisure
in a Late Ottoman City
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Venue: Humboldt University Berlin, 10117 Berlin, * Dorotheenstraße 24 / Hegelplatz 1
9 am – 5
pm
Session 4
9.30 – 11
am
Registration and Help Desk Open
Track I: Language &
Linguistics
Urban Grammar
Chair: Tonjes Veenstra
(ZAS)
Track II: Literature &
Translation
Translating urban
experiences
Chair: Andreas Keller (ZfL)
Track III: Society &
Governance
Urban Gentrification and
Gated Communities
Chair: Annegret Roelcke (ZMO)
Heike Wiese and Ines
Rehbein (University
Potsdam): Language
fluidity in urban diversity:
contact, variation and
change in Dutch and
German NPs
Dekel Shay Schory (BenGurion University of the
Negev): Crossing the
border of languages:
multilingual writers as
masters of trespassing
Anwesha Sengupta (University
of Oxford): From City Calls to
City Walls: Emergence of
Gated Communities and its
Impact on the
‘Pheriwallahs/wallihs’ of
Kolkata
Kathleen Schumann
(University of Potsdam):
Lexical Focus Marking in
urban German:
Kiezdeutsch and
Namdeutsch
Ingrid Gogolin, Simone
Lechner and Peter
Siemund (University of
Hamburg): The
acquisition of English as
an additional language by
unbalanced bilinguals in
Germany
Olesya Ivantsova (McGill
University): „Szenerie eines
sozialen Dramas“: Russian
Streets Translated by
Western Intellectuals
Baris Ülker (Center for
Metropolitan Studies,
Technical University of
Berlin): Photographing
Modern Urban
Development in Exile
11 –
11.30 am
Coffee Break
11.30 –
12.30 am
Keynote Address (II)
Karin Schuitema (Netherlands
Institute in Turkey): Identities
and fragmented memories in a
changing urban landscape: a
multi-vocal biography of
Tophane
Antonin Margier (University of
Lille 1): From the interactions
in public spaces to the
fragmentation of the city.
Towards the emergence of a
foam city?
Timothy Moss (Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning
(IRS), Erkner, Germany)
Splintering Urbanism Revisited
Chair: Nora Lafi (ZMO)
Humboldt University, Dorotheenstr. 24, 1.101
12.30 – 2
pm
Lunch Break
4
2 – 4 pm
Postersession w/ Coffee
Chair: Stefanie Jannedy (ZAS)
Anna Ananieva and Rolf Haaser (Eberhard Karls University Tübingen): Circulation of
News and Goods. The Transfer of Modern Urban Forms of Living in the German Speaking
Press in Prague and Buda-Pest
Julie Abbou (Aix Marseille University): Linguistic embodiments and political genealogy of
inter-colonialism in Hong Kong
Matthias Deininger (University of Heidelberg): Religious Diversity, Public Morality and
the State in Singapore
Marwa El Chab (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris): Modern day
Lebanese urban dynamics in Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Claudia Esch (University of Bamberg): What kept a medieval town together?
Christina Färber (Free University of Berlin): Alley-grave: Language as an inside boundary
of the ghetto in Der Schrei, den niemand hört! by Else Feldmann
Luisa Helmeke, Melanie Weirich and Stefanie Jannedy (ZAS Berlin): Loss of Phonemic
Contrast as a Marker of Social Identity
Abdolhosein Kalantari, Sediqa Bakhtiari and Abdullah Mohammadi (University of
Tehran): Hazara Refugees’ Repatriation to Afghanistan and the Continuity of Their
Historical Ghettoization in Kabul
Maria Pohle, Heike Wiese (University of Potsdam): Kiezdeutsch as a peer-group marker:
Linguistic creativity and situational choice in urban youth
Anna Ross (University of Oxford): Photographing reurbanization in West Berlin, 1979-84
Lucija Šimičić (Linguistics Department, University of Zadar), Lana Peternel Bosniak
(Institute for Social Research in Zagreb): Ethnic and sociolinguistic identity
transformation in Zagreb, Croatia
Agnieszka Stanecka and Monika Gregorowicz-Cap (Jan Kochanowski University): From
the Suburbs to the City – Postcolonial Route
Juan R. Valdez (Queens College-City University of New York): Broken Words: A
Sociohistorical Analysis of the Linguistic Performance of Violence in Puerto Rico
Lisa Wälischmiller (Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munic): The influence of standard
German on central Bavarian open vowels
Solace Yankson (Radboud University, Nijmegen): Akan migrants in Accra: A
sociolinguistic perspective
5
4 – 5 pm
New Perspectives on Interdisciplinarity?
Roundtable discussion with Sanaa Alimia (SOAS/ZMO), Rudolf Gaudio (Purchase),
Stefan Willer (ZfL)
Chair: Dirk Naguschewski (ZfL)
Humboldt University, Dorotheenstr. 24, 1.101
5 – 6 pm
Keynote Address (III)
Tarek El-Ariss (University of Texas at Austin)
The Sublime Now
Chair: Dirk Naguschewski (ZfL)
Humboldt University, Dorotheenstr. 24, 1.101
7 pm
Conference Reception
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Venue: Humboldt University Berlin, 10117 Berlin, * Dorotheenstraße 24 / Hegelplatz 1
9.00 am
– 5 pm
Session
5
9.30 –
11 am
Registration and Help Desk Open
Track I: Language &
Linguistics
Youth Identities
Chair: Tonjes Veenstra (ZAS)
Nico Nassenstein (Institute
for African Studies,
University of Cologne):
Urban youth languages in
the great lakes region of
Africa: Overview of identity
constructions and
manipulative strategies
Katharina Tyran (freelance
researcher): Visualizing
identity, scripting borders –
Writing systems beyond
linguistic functionality
Track II: Literature &
Translation
Lebanon – The
Aftereffects of War
Chair: Saadi Norman Nikro
(ZMO)
James A. Reilly (University
of Toronto): Dueling
Visions of Ottoman Beirut
Kifah Hanna (Trinity
College, CT): “Desire and
Belonging in Lebanese War
Literature”
Ghenwa Hayek (Claremont
McKenna College): “The
War is Over (hahaha)” :
Memory and Anxiety in
Lebanese Comics
6
11 –
11.30
am
Session
6
11.30
am – 1
pm
Coffee Break
INTERFACE
Urban subjectivity
Chair: Matthias Schwartz
(ZfL)
Sophie Wennerscheid
(Ghent University):
Suburban subjectivity in
contemporary Swedish
multilingual literature
Siri Lamoureaux (Max
Planck Institute for Social
Anthropology): Debates
over value and morality
among Nuba Christian
migrants in Khartoum,
Sudan
Rudolf Gaudio (Purchase
College, State University of
New York): 'Big Grammar'
and Pidgin Pride: Linguistic
Trans/nationalism in
Nigeria's Capital
1 – 2 pm
Session
7
2 – 3.30
pm
Track I: Language &
Linguistic Creativity
German or Polish?
Chair: Insa Gülzow (ZAS)
Maria Klessmann, Dominik
Gerst and Slavena Korsun
(European University
Viadrina): Multilingualism
and linguistic demarcations
in the border region: The
linguistic border landscape
of the German-Polish twin
cities Frankfurt (Oder) –
Słubice
Alexander Tölle (GermanPolish Research
Track II: Literature &
Translation
Literary Representations
of Israeli Cities
Chair: Uri Ganani (Zentrum
Jüdische Studien Berlin
Brandenburg)
Shira Stav (Ben-Gurion
University of The Negev):
Capitalist realism and the
fragmented experience of
the city in post-modern
Hebrew novel
Abigail Wood (University
of Haifa): Passing sounds
and fragmentary
narratives: articulating
changing boundaries in
Jerusalem’s Old City
Chen Strass (Ben-Gurion
University & Minerva
Humanities center, Tel Aviv
University): The Apartment
Building and the Borders of
Representation: On the
City and its Dwellers in
Israeli Literature
Lunch Break
Track II: Literature &
Translation
Living Memories
Chair: Hannah Markus (ZfL)
Andre Otto (University of
Hamburg):
Superimpositions. Roy
Fisher’s poetic terrains
vagues
Silvia Machein (University
of Heidelberg): The City as
Dreamscape: Metaphor,
Metonymy, and the Politics
of Memory in Kaunas,
Lithuania
Track III: Society &
Governance
Urban Conflicts and
Cosmopolitanism
Chair: Florian Riedler (ZMO)
Nora Lafi (ZMO Berlin):
Processes of Urban
Fragmentation On the
Margins of Late-Ottoman
and Early Colonial Tunis
Hang Lin (University of
Hamburg): The Kaleidoscope
of an Emerging
Cosmopolitan Society:
Peoples, Lives, and Identities
in Late Nineteenth Century
Shanghai
Jeanine Dagyeli (ZMO
Berlin): Rioters and Martyrs:
Ritual Urban Violence in late
18th-Century Bukhara
INTERFACE
Urban planning
Chair: Sanaa Alimia
(SOAS/ZMO)
Lieven Ameel (University of
Helsinki): Narrative Planning
in Helsinki’s Waterfront
Regeneration: New
Directions in Planning
Practices and Theory
George Owusu (University of
Ghana): Decentralized
Development Planning and
Fragmentation of
Metropolitan Districts in
Ghana: The Case of the
7
Institute): Designing places
of integration, retaining
spaces of liminality. The
case of the German-Polish
twin cities upon Oder and
Neisse
Joanna Blaszczak
(University of Wroclaw) and
Marzena Żygis (ZAS): Am I
German or Polish? A case
study with Polish-German
children living in Berlin
3.30 pm
Aristotelis
Anagnostopoulos
(University of Kent):
Modernity in Ruins:
materiality, trauma and
class antagonism in
cultures of
commemoration in
Heraklion, Crete.
Greater Accra Metropolitan
Area
Natalia Gagarina (ZAS):
Multilingualism: Language
Testing and Planning
Closing Remarks
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