The office of Global Education and International Services is arranging a road trip to Cornell University on Friday, February 5th to participate in their Community College Faculty Workshop. Registration, lunch and transportation are included!
Read below for information about the workshop.
Please email Gale Lynch (
mailto:glynch6@monroecc.edu) with questions or to sign up for transportation. You can also register directly with Cornell via https://goo.gl/forms/X0BAH3Futg
Cultural Flows in Space and Time: Reimagining Asian Diaspora
A Workshop for Community College Faculty
February 5, 2016
9:00-2:15 pm
Cornell University, ILR 525
Recently, the concept of diaspora has come under fire. Drawing attention to human movements across boundaries, diaspora has primarily developed as a spatial concept to challenge territorially bounded understandings of nation, culture and identity. This privileging of space has largely neglected attention to temporality and the cultural flows that accompany diaspora, which may take shape independently and often anachronistically. Coining the term "diaspora moments," Shelly Chan, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, argues that the idea of “diaspora” is not adequately captured by examining communities in space, but rather it should be thought of as a series of events that enable novel connections to be forged with a “homeland,” either real or imagined.
In this workshop scholar-presenters will examine cultural flows across Asia and their diasporic connections through space and time. Underlying questions the workshop aims to explore: How is diaspora tied more broadly to cultural flows? How is cultural identity understood, performed, and passed on from generation to generation? How does a diaspora interact with the ideas and spaces of “homeland”? What kinds of intersections and influences occur between and among people of a diaspora and the “new” land? We will focus particularly on instances in which movements of people, ideas, and culture have circulated in Asia, creating new identities and new connections that challenge a simplistic understanding of diaspora.
With a combination of presentations, discussions, and breakout sessions community college faculty will learn how to engage and incorporate ideas of diaspora and cultural flows into their teaching and research.
Agenda:
9:00 Coffee/registration
9:15 Opening remarks/agenda by Iftikhar Dadi, Interim Director, Cornell South Asia Program
9:30-10:15 speaker 1: Kaja McGowan, Associate Professor, art history, archaeology, and Asian studies, Cornell University, and Director of the Cornell Southeast Asia Program: Asian Diasporas Revisited: Cultural Flows in Space and Time
10:15-10:30 break
10:30-11:15 speaker 2: Joanne Punzo Waghorne, Professor of Religion, Syracuse University: Hinduism in Singapore
11:15-11:30 break
11:30-12:15 speaker 3: Chris Miller, Senior Lecturer, music, Cornell University: Cultural Flows and Music in Indonesia
12:15-1:15 Lunch
1:15-2:00 Pedagogy Breakout sessions
2:00-2:15 wrap-up