| 8:00-8:30 | Registration – Union Ballroom Breakfast – Ballroom Lobby |
| 8:30 | Welcome – Union 191 Michael R. Lovell, UW-Milwaukee Chancellor Rodney Swain, Dean, College of Letters and Science Rachel Ida Buff, Coordinator, Comparative Ethnic Studies |
| 9:30-11:00 | Internal Displacements – Union 181 | |
| Moderator: Merry Wiesner-Hanks, History, UW-Milwaukee | ||
| Gita Barali, Independent Scholar "Who is a Refugee? The Indian Experience" |
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| David Silkenat, History, North Dakota State University "The American Civil War Considered as a Refugee Crisis" |
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| Sierra Adare-Tasiwoopa api, University at Buffalo "The Trail Where They Cried: Prisoners, Survivors, Refugees?" |
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| 9:30-11:00 | Contesting Literacies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literacy and Refugee Studies – Union 183 | |
| Moderator: May Vang, Bilingual Education, UW-Milwaukee | ||
| MaiGer Moua, UW-Madison "Contesting Literacy and Illiteracy: Hmong Romanized Popular Alphabet, Pahawh, and Nationalism" |
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| Chong Moua, UW-Madison "From the Familial to the Female: Constructing the Hmong Subject in Kao Kalia Yang's The Latehomecomer" |
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| Michael T. MacDonald, UW-Milwaukee "Currency and Consequence: Intersections of Literacy Research and Refugee Studies" |
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| 11:30-12:30 | Lunch - Ballroom East/Lobby |
| 1:00-2:30 | Legal Policies and Regulatory Structures – Union 181 | |
| Moderator: Robert S. Smith, History, UW-Milwaukee | ||
| Dulce Abigail Perez Aguilera, Justice Studies and Social Inquiry, Arizona State University Rosa E. Monterrubio Torres, Department of Law, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico "Justifiable Conditions: The African Descendant Refugees in Mexico City: Status and Regulatory Challenges" |
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| Pinar Celebi, University of Exeter "The Construction of Refugee Presence as a Security Threat" |
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| 1:00-2:30 | Rethinking Categories – Union 183 | |
| Moderator: Lisa Silverman, History, UW-Milwaukee | ||
| Tina Shrestha, Anthropology, Cornell University "The Everyday Immigrant Integration: Nepali Refugees, Asylum Seekers & Migrant Workers in New York City" |
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| Bernadette Ludwig, The Graduate Center, City University of New York "The Label Refugee: A Blessing or a Burden?" |
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| Laura Hilton, History, Muskingum University "Are You Who You Say You Are? Identification and Screening of Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany" |
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| 3:00-5:00 | Plenary Session – Union Ballroom West | |
| Introduction: Robert C. Greenstreet, Dean, School of Architecture and Urban Planning |
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| Moderator: Arijit Sen, Buildings, Landscapes, Cultures Program, School of Architecture, UW-Milwaukee |
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| Michael Rios "The Negotiative Spaces of Transnational Placemaking" |
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| Romola Sanyal "Architectures of Displacement: Refugee Identity and the Politics of Place-Making" |
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| 5:00-5:30 | Transportation to Jewish Museum of Milwaukee |
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| 6:00-7:00 | Reception – Jewish Museum of Milwaukee |
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| 7:00-8:30 | Ghita Schwartz Reading – Jewish Museum of Milwaukee | |
| Introduction: Joel Berkowitz, Director, Jewish Studies, UW-Milwaukee |
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| 8:30-10:00 | Self Representation: The Politics of Agency and Voice – Union 181 | |
| Moderator: Oody Petty, Comparative Ethnic Studies & English, UW-Milwaukee | ||
| Alison Remillard, Cornell University "Wandering Birds: Burmese Refugee youth Narratives of Inclusion, Exclusion and Hopes for the Future" |
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| Jennifer Way, Art History, University of North Texas "Domesticating Handicrafts: Representations of Refugee Handicraft Artisans in South Vietnam, 1956" |
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| 8:30-10:00 | Locating Refugees: Spaces and Sites – Union 183 | |
| Moderator: Erica Bornstein, Anthropology, UW-Milwaukee | ||
| Lynne Horiuchi, Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California at Berkeley "Managing Camps: The Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter and Japanese American Sites of Confinement" |
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| Emily A. Lynch, University of Texas at Austin "Time in Forced Migration: Life in a Rwandese Refugee Camp" |
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| Father Linh Hoang, Religious Studies, Siena College "Southeast Asian Refugees: Negotiating Religious Markers" |
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| 8:30-10:00 | Refugees and the Margins of Nations – Union 179 | |
| Moderator: Jodi Melamed, English Department, Marquette University | ||
| Rainer U. Schulze, University of Essex "Memory and Memorialisation of Flight and Expulsion: Germany post-1945 and Kosovo post-2000" |
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| April Shemak, Sam Houston State University "Refugees in the 'New World Order': Caryl Phillips' A Distant Shore" |
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| Dahlia Malek, King's College, London "Exhausting Local Remedies in Accordance with the African Charter in Host Countries: The Case of Detained Refugees in Egypt" |
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| 10:30-12:00 | Refugee Collaboration with Local Actors – Union 181 | |
| Moderator: Adejumoke Afolayan, Geography, UW-Madison | ||
| Bryan McGinley, University of Strathclyde "Refugee or Asylum Seeker: What's in a Name?" |
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| Christie Shrestha, Anthropology, University of Kentucky "Complexities in Resettlement of Bhutanese Refugees: What it Means to Integrate and Become American" |
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| 10:30-12:00 | Identity & Refugee Narratives – Union 183 | |
| Moderator: Nan Kim Paik, History, UWM | ||
| Pa Her, New York City College of Technology, City University of New York "The Stories We Share: Hmong Women's Identity and Socialization Strategies in the United States" |
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| Pa Der Vang, St. Catherine University "Hmong in the U.S.: Acculturation and Socialization Strategies" |
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| Edwin Otieno Makori, Omega Foundation, Kenya "The Experiences of Somali Refugees in Nairobi, Kenya: Their Perceptions of Citizenship and Home" |
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| 10:30-12:00 | A Refuge of Identity: Contesting Discourses of Refugee in Literature, Film and Political Culture – Union 179 | |
| Moderator: Kristin Sziarto, Geography, UW-Milwaukee | ||
| Aline Lo, UW-Madison Manifested Destinies: Refugee Narratives in American Literature |
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| Lee Abbott, UW-Milwaukee "Not refugees: the struggle for self-identification of Katrina survivors" |
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| Thang Dao, University of Southern California "Vietnamese People Don't Die": Discourses about Vietnamese Undocumented Immigrants in the European Union |
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| 12:00-1:00 | Lunch – Plymouth Church |
| 12:00-1:00 | Here, There and Elsewhere Exhibit – Plymouth Church |
| Welcome: Andrew Warner, Plymouth Church Introduction: Gregory Jay, Director, Cultures and Communities, UW-Milwaukee |
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| John Ruebartsch and Sally Kuzma "Refugee Families in Milwaukee" |
| 1:30-3:00 | Mediated Representations of Refugees – Union 181 | |
| Moderator: Richard Grusin, English & Center for 21st Century Studies, UW-Milwaukee | ||
| Michele James-Deramo, ASPECT (Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought), Virginia Tech "An Insurrection of Subjugated Information: The Perceptions of Aid Organizations in Kakuma Refugees" |
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| Phuong Nguyen, Asian American Studies,Northwestern University "The Voice of America & Becoming Refugee American" |
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| Jane Seok Jeng Lim, State University of New York at Buffalo "'A Flag on a Map': A Cars Study of a Karen Refugee Child's Sense of Identity in the Settlement Country" |
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| 1:30-3:00 | Refugees in Context of American Geopolitics – Union 183 | |
| Moderator: Sarah McKinnon, UW-Madison | ||
| Chieko Kitagawa Otsuru, Kansai University "Accepting Refugees of Failed U.S. Wars as Minority Members" |
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| Emily M. Feuerherm, Linguistics, UC-Davis "Discourses around Refugees: Positioning Iraqi Refugees through Policy and the Media" |
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| 1:30-3:00 | Hmong Refugees or Hmong Americans? Why Labels Matter – Union 179 | |
| Moderator: Scott Walter, Comparative Ethnic Studies & Cultures and Communities Program, UW-Milwaukee | ||
| Vincent Her, Ethnic and Racial Studies, University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse Mary Louise Buley-Meissner, English, UW-Milwaukee "Reading 'Bamboo Among the Oaks' as a Narrative of the Hmong American Journey from Refugees to Citizens" |
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| Mitch Ogden, English, University of Wisconsin-Stout "Poetics & Polemics of Refugee Utopias: The Poetry of Hmong Diaspora" |
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| 3:30-5:30 | Plenary Session – West Ballroom | |
| Introduction: Patrice Petro, Center for International Education, UW-Milwaukee |
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| Moderator: Chia Youyee Vang, Coordinator, Hmong Diaspora Studies, UW-Milwaukee |
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| Shirley Tang "Revere-ing Refugees: Multi-directional Movements and Methods in Critical Refugees Studies" |
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| Ghita Schwarz "Notes from a New York Immigration Lawyer (and Novelist) about Refugees" |
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| 5:30-6:45 | Reception – Fireside Lounge |
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| 7:00 | Keynote Address – West Ballroom | |
| Introduction: Johannes Britz, Provost, UW-Milwaukee |
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| Dr. Matsuo Ikuhara "Haiti and Japan Disasters: Lessons Learned and Implications for U.S. Preparedness" |
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| Concluding Remarks: Rachel Ida Buff |
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