Program: Symposium
At Home in Diaspora/Diaspora at Home

• Ato Quayson, University of Toronto, Department of English, Director of the Centre for Transnational and Diaspora Studies: "Urban Scripts and Its Readers at Oxford St., Accra"

Followed by reception

Dinner for conference participants

• William Safran, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Political Science, Founding Editor of the quarterly Nationalism and Ethnic Politics: "Diaspora: The National, the Transnational, and the Local"

Group I: Neighborhood

• Michel Laguerre, University of California at Berkeley, Department of African American Studies, Director of the Center Globalization and Information Technology: "Global Judaism and Network Governance"
• David Caron, University of Michigan, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures: "Nearness"
  Respondent: Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert, Stanford University, Department of Religious Studies

Group II: City as Homeland
Chair: Vered Karti Shemtov, Stanford University, African and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures

• Devin Naar, Stanford University, Department of History: "Salonica"
• Rebecca Kobrin, Columbia University, Department of History: "Bialystok"
• Anna Lipphardt, University of Konstanz/Germany, Cultura Studies: "Vilna"
  Respondent: Steven Zipperstein, Stanford University, Department of History

Group III: Homeland as Home?

• Michal Govrin, Author, in conversation with Vered Karti Shemtov, Stanford University, African and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures: "Releasing the Land: The Sabbatical Year"
• Arie Dubnov, Stanford University, Department of History: "Letting Go of Diaspora: Tel Aviv and the Beginning of Israeli Nostalgia"

Group IV: National Diaspora and Diasporic Nation
Chair: Robert Crews, Stanford University, Department of History

• Ruth Mandel, University College, London, Department of Anthropology: "Cosmopolitan Anxieties: Turkish Challenges to Citizenship and Belonging in Germany"
• Bradley Naranch, Stanford University, Department of History: "German Overseas Communities and the Idea of the Diasporic Nation"
• Pam Ballinger, Bowdoin College, Department of Sociology and Anthropology: "Repatriation"
  

Dinner for conference participants