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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
10.45 –
11.45 am
11.45 –
12.15 am
Registration
Opening
Prof. Dr. Manfred Krifka (GWZ, member of the board of directors): Opening address (5 min)
Ministerialdirigent Dr. Dietrich Nelle, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (5-10 min): Welcome address
Dr. Jutta Koch-Unterseher, Leiterin der Abteilung Technologie und Forschung, Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Wirtschaft, Forschung und
Technologie (5-10 min): Welcome address
Hagen Findeis (ZMO), Stefanie Jannedy (ZAS), Dirk Naguschewski (ZfL): Borders and Identities: Urban Fragmentations
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
Coffee Break
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Session 1
12.15 – 1.45
pm
Track I: Language & Linguistics
Linguistic Landscapes
Chair: N.N. (ZAS)
INTERFACE
Berlin
Chair: Dirk Naguschewski (ZfL)
Track III: Society & Governance
Urban Planning - State and Social Actors
Chair: Katrin Bromber (ZMO)
152 Klara Bilic Mestric (University of Zagreb):
Hybridity and Dynamism of Making of the
Self – Multilingual Habitus of Children in
Eastern Croatian Urban Spaces
176 Andreas Keller (ZfL Berlin): Labyrinth, Mauer,
Neue Mitte: Spaces and Structures, Focus and
Fragmentations in Berlin-Narratives (1900-19612011)
131 Anandita Bajpai (Humboldt University
Berlin): (E)merging faces of India: Visions of
the urban in the political rhetoric of Indian
prime ministers since 1991
44 Theresa Heyd (University of Freiburg):
From Naija to Chitown: The New African
Diaspora and sociolinguistic representations
of urban space
40 Berna Turam (Northeastern University,
Boston): Urban Space and Democratic
Contestation: Kreuzberg, the “Turkish
Neighborhood” of Berlin (requested)
Joseph Rustom (Brandenburgische
Technische Universität - CottbusSenftenberg): Multi-Religious Societies and
the Right to the City: The Case of the AlBashura District in Beirut
109 Joanna Kremer (University of Sheffield):
„Where are the Luxembourgers?“:
Constructions of place, belonging and
foreignness
21 Janet Fuller (Southern Illinois University
Carbondale): Linguistic Landscapes in Berlin
1.45 – 2.45
pm
Session 2
2.45 – 4.15
pm
128 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: N.N. (ZAS)
Track II: Literature & Translation
Diversity in Topography
Chair: Matthias Schwartz (ZfL)
Track III: Society & Governance
Urban Boundaries
Chair: Ulrike Freitag (ZMO)
93 Elin Almér (University of Jyväskylä):
Where it all starts – Preschool children's
conceptions of multilingualism
174 Sebastian Cwiklinski (ZfL Berlin): Visibility of
Ethnic Differences in Russian Megapolises:
Tatars, Azeris and Central Asian Turks in Moscow
and Saint Petersburg
148 Hanna Baumann (University of
Cambridge): Jerusalem marginalia: the
fragmentation of Palestinian space and the
frontierisation of the ghetto
79 Philipp Schröder (Humboldt University Berlin)
30 Reza Masoudi Nejad (Center for Modern
135 Kate Hammer (University of London,
Birkbeck): 'After crossing the border' –
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linguistic and psychosocial perspectives on
migration
170 Marion Krause (University of Hamburg):
Linguistic in-group-heterogeneity: the case
of Russian heritage speakers in German
4.15 – 4.45
pm
Session 3
4.45 – 6.15
pm
and J. Otto Habeck (University of Hamburg):
Angst in the City? Negotiating ethnic and sexual
diversity in Novosibirsk (Russia)
Oriental Studies Berlin): Urban Margins, the
refuge for Mohurrum Processions in
Bombay
124 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
42 Secil Dagtas (University of Waterloo):
Religious Borders: Neo-Ottoman placemaking in Antakya
Coffee Break
Track I: Language & Linguistics
Urban Grammar
Chair: N.N. (ZAS)
Track II: Literature & Translation
Suburban subjectivities
Chair: Matthias Schwartz (ZfL)
Track III: Society & Governance
Religion and Urban Place-making
Chair: Ayse Cavdar (ZMO)
27 Leonie Cornips (Meertens
Instituut/KNAW), Heike Wiese and Ines
Rehbein (University Potsdam): Language
fluidity in urban diversity: contact, variation
and change in Dutch and German NPs
175 Matthias Schwartz (ZfL Berlin): Rebellion and
Frustration. Fragmented subjectivities among the
suburban in Polish contemporary literature
28 Hew Wai Weng (ZMO Berlin): Building a
Religious City: the Production of Islamic
Places in the Suburban of Jakarta
114 Lydia Wistisen (University of Stockholm):
Suburban Masculinities – Identity, alienation and
stereotypes in three contemporary Swedish
suburban narratives
22 Jan-Markus Vömel (University of
Konstanz): Reclaiming the Muslim Self –
Notes on Islamist Urbanism in Turkey, ca.
1960‐2000
84 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
107 Toufoul Abou-Hodeib (University of
Oslo): Fragmented Publics: Class,
Consumption, and Leisure in a Late Ottoman
City
100 Kathleen Schumann (University of
Potsdam): Lexical Focus Marking in urban
German: Kiezdeutsch and Namdeutsch
13 Ingrid Gogolin, Simone Lechner & Peter
Siemund (University of Hamburg): The
acquisition of English as an additional
language by unbalanced bilinguals in
Germany
Evening out
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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
Track I: Language & Linguistic Creativity
Multilingual Cities
Chair: N.N. (ZAS)
Registration
Track II: Literature & Translation
Translating urban experiences
Chair: Andreas Keller (ZfL)
126 Lisa Bornstein and Jordan Rockerbie
(McGill University School of Urban Planning):
Planning in multi-lingual cities: Can we build a
better Babel?
160 Dekel Shay Schory (Ben-Gurion University
of the Negev): Crossing the border of
languages: multilingual writers as masters of
trespassing
110 Sarah McMonagle (University of
Hamburg) and Lorna Carson (Trinity College
Dublin): Language Diversity in Dublin:
Challenging the Monolingual Habitus?
146 Olesya Ivantsova (McGill University):
„Szenerie eines sozialen Dramas“: Russian
Streets Translated by Western Intellectuals
69 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
11 – 11.30
am
157 Baris Ülker (Center for Metropolitan
Studies, Technical University of Berlin):
Photographing Modern Urban Development in
Exile
Track III: Society & Governance
Urban Gentrification and Gated
Communities
Chair: Annegret Roelcke (ZMO)
164 Anwesha Sengupta (University of
Oxford): From City Calls to City Walls:
Emergence of Gated Communities and its
Impact on the ‘Pheriwallahs/wallihs’ of
Kolkata
71 Karin Schuitema (Netherlands Institute in
Turkey): Identities and fragmented memories
in a changing urban landscape: a multi-vocal
biography of Tophane
98 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?
Coffee Break
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11.30 –
12.30 am
Keynote Address (II)
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
2 – 4 pm
Postersession w/ Coffee
Chair: Stefanie Jannedy
96 Julie Abbou (Aix Marseille University):
Linguistic embodiments and political
genealogy of inter-colonialism in Hong Kong
173 Luisa Helmeke, Melanie Weirich &
Stefanie Jannedy (ZAS Berlin): Loss of
Phonemic Contrast as a Marker of Social
Identity
74 Maria Pohle, Heike Wiese (University of
Potsdam): Kiezdeutsch as a peer-group
marker: Linguistic creativity and situational
choice in urban youth
133 Lucija Šimičić (Linguistics Department,
University of Zadar), Lana Peternel Bosniak
(Institute for Social Research in Zagreb):
Ethnic and sociolinguistic identity
transformation in Zagreb, Croatia
156 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
51 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
142 Agnieszka Stanecka and Monika
Gregorowicz-Cap (Jan Kochanowski University):
From the Suburbs to the City – Postcolonial
Route
41 Matthias Deininger (University of
Heidelberg): Religious Diversity, Public
Morality and the State in Singapore
138 Marwa El Chab (School for Advanced
Studies in the Social Sciences,
Paris): Modern day Lebanese urban
dynamics in Abidjan, Ivory Coast
91 Claudia Esch (University of
Bamberg): What kept a medieval town
together?
78 Abdolhosein Kalantari, Sediqa Bakhtiari
and Abdullah Mohammadi (University of
Tehran): Hazara Refugees’ Repatriation to
Afghanistan and the Continuity of Their
Historical Ghettoization in Kabul
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17 Juan R. Valdez (Queens College-City
University of New York): Broken Words: A
Sociohistorical Analysis of the Linguistic
Performance of Violence in Puerto Rico
56 Anna Ross (University of Oxford):
Photographing reurbanization in West
Berlin, 1979-84
169 Lisa Wälischmiller (Ludwig-Maximilian
University of Munic): The influence of
standard German on central Bavarian open
vowels
55 Solace Yankson (Radboud University,
Nijmegen): Akan migrants in Accra: A
sociolinguistic perspective
4 – 5 pm
New Perspectives on Interdisciplinarity?
Roundtable discussion with Sanaa Alimia (SOAS/ZMO), Rudolf Gaudio (Purchase), Stefan Willer (ZfL)
Chair: Dirk Naguschewski (ZfL)
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
Venue: AMPELMANN-Restaurant, Stadtbahnbogen 159/160, 10178 Berlin-Mitte
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Thursday, March 19, 2015
Venue: Humboldt University Berlin, 10117 Berlin, * Dorotheenstraße 24 / Hegelplatz 1
8.30 am – 5
pm
Session 5
9.30 – 11
am
11 – 11.30
am
Session 6
11.30 am –
1 pm
Registration
Track I: Language & Linguistic Creativity
Youth Identities
Chair: Marzena Żygis (ZAS)
Track II: Literature & Translation
Lebanon – The Aftereffects of War
Chair: Saadi Norman Nikro (ZMO)
43 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
25 James A. Reilly (University of Toronto):
Dueling Visions of Ottoman Beirut
49 Katharina Tyran (freelance researcher):
Visualizing identity, scripting borders –
Writing systems beyond linguistic
functionality
38 Ghenwa Hayek (Claremont McKenna
College): “The War is Over (hahaha)” : Memory
and Anxiety in Lebanese Comics
85 Kifah Hanna (Trinity College, CT): “Desire and
Belonging in Lebanese War Literature”
Coffee Break
INTERFACE
Urban subjectivity
Chair: Matthias Schwartz (ZfL)
Track II: Literature & Translation
Literary Representations of Israeli Cities
Chair: Uri Ganani
Track III: Society & Governance
Urban Conflicts and Cosmopolitanism
Chair: Florian Riedler (ZMO)
88 Sophie Wennerscheid (Ghent University):
Suburban subjectivity in contemporary
Swedish multilingual literature
68 Shira Stav (Ben-Gurion University of The
Negev): Capitalist realism and the fragmented
experience of the city in post-modern Hebrew
novel
97 Nora Lafi (ZMO Berlin): Processes of
Urban Fragmentation On the Margins of
Late-Ottoman and Early Colonial Tunis
120 Siri Lamoureaux (Max Planck Institute for
12 Hang Lin (University of Hamburg): The
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1 – 2 pm
Session 7
2 – 3.30 pm
Social Anthropology): Debates over value and
morality among Nuba Christian migrants in
Khartoum, Sudan
125 Abigail Wood (University of Haifa): Passing
sounds and fragmentary narratives: articulating
changing boundaries in Jerusalem’s Old City
Kaleidoscope of an Emerging Cosmopolitan
Society: Peoples, Lives, and Identities in Late
Nineteenth Century Shanghai
171 Rudolf Gaudio (Purchase College, State
University of New York): 'Big Grammar' and
Pidgin Pride: Linguistic Trans/nationalism in
Nigeria's Capital
53 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)
86 Jeanine Dagyeli (ZMO Berlin): Rioters and
Martyrs: Ritual Urban Violence in late 18thCentury Bukhara
112 Andre Otto (University of Hamburg):
Superimpositions. Roy Fisher’s poetic terrains
vagues
118 Lieven Ameel (University of Helsinki):
Narrative Planning in Helsinki’s Waterfront
Regeneration: New Directions in Planning
Practices and Theory
Track I: Language & Linguistic Creativity
German or Polish?
Chair: Marzena Żygis (ZAS)
140 Maria Klessmann, Dominik Gerst and
Slavena Korsun (European University
Viadrina): Multilingualism and linguistic
demarcations in the border region: The
linguistic border landscape of the GermanPolish twin cities Frankfurt (Oder) – Słubice
36 Alexander Tölle (German-Polish Research
Institute): Designing places of integration,
retaining spaces of liminality. The case of the
German-Polish twin cities upon Oder and
Neisse
161 Silvia Machein (University of Heidelberg):
The City as Dreamscape: Metaphor, Metonymy,
and the Politics of Memory in Kaunas, Lithuania
62 Aristotelis Anagnostopoulos (University of
Kent): Modernity in Ruins: materiality, trauma
and class antagonism in cultures of
commemoration in Heraklion, Crete.
INTERFACE
Urban planning
Chair: Sanaa Alimia (SOAS/ZMO)
34 George Owusu (University of
Ghana): Decentralized Development
Planning and Fragmentation of Metropolitan
Districts in Ghana: The Case of the Greater
Accra Metropolitan Area
172 Natalia Gagarina (ZAS): Multilingualism:
Language Testing and Planning
111 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
Closing Remarks & Farewell Coffee
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