Identities in Transition

The Enkidu Summer Conference 2007

June 1 - 5, 2007

Mexico City

in:

Abstracts of papers approved by the Committee 15 April 2007

(Final Conference Program).

Performing God and the State: The Formulation a National Identity During the French Revolution

Tara M. Good

Department for Performance Studies

New York University, New York

Inmigrar o morir: Con la cabeza alta

María Jesús Muñoz Jimenez

Universidad de Valladolid

(España/Spain)

Retribution Demanded By The Past (focus on slavery)

Yoseph Mobae

University of Asmara

Outreach and Training Department, National Museum of Eritrea

(Eritrea)

Remembrance through Oblivion: The Revival of Ancient Greek Drama on the Ancient Stage in Modern Greece

Zeynep Akture

Department of Architecture 

Izmir Institute of Technology 

Gulbahce Campus,  Izmir

(Turkia/Turkey)

Justice Memorialized: The Allied Governments’ Free Pass to the Italian Fascist War Criminals during the Italo-Ethiopian War 1935-1936

Angela Ruocco

Department of International History and Diplomacy

University of Maryland

(Estados Unidos)

Migration Politics and Human Rights: Mapping Guatemalan Forced Migrant Gendered Identities in Mexico and the United States

Oscar F. Gil-García

Department of Sociology, 

University of California at Santa Barbara

(Estados Unidos)

Nation-Building Experience in Central Asia: Politics vs. the Political in the Case of Uzbekistan

Aslan Yavuz

Eurasian Studies & European Studies; Global Strategy Institute, Central Asia and Caucasia Unit, 

Middle East Technical University, Ankara, 

Turkey/Turkía

Identity, Silences, Security and Nation: Keeping Others at bay

Uzzi Ohana

London School of Economics and Political Science

United Kingdom/Reino Unido

Aki about TuPac, TuPac about Aki - Exploring an Indirect Perspective in Street Ethnography

Geir H Moshuus

NOVA (Norsk institutt for forskning om oppvekst, velferd og aldring)

Norwegian Social Research, Oslo

Norway/Noruega

La periferia como inversión: una lectura de Del Amor y Otros Demonios

Celina Bragagnolo

Philosophy Department

Stony Brook University 

Stony Brook, Nueva York

Estados Unidos

Elocuencia del silencio y la mirada en La lengua de las mariposas y en Machuca

Ramona Lagos

Department of languages, Literatures and Cultures/Spanish

University of South Carolina

Estados Unidos

Constructing Cultural Identities – Polish Poetry in English Translation

Bohdan Piasecki

Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies

University of Warwick

United Kingdom/Reino Unido

From Mothers to Daughters: Dynamic Definitions of Womanhood in Turkey

Ayla Samli

Anthropology department,

Rice University

Estados Unidos

“Speak White:” Remembering French Canadian Identities in British Columbia, Canada, 1909-1939

Genevieve Lapointe

Department of Sociology

The University of British Columbia

Canada

The Role of Spanish-Language Media in the formation of Pan-Latino Identities in the United States

Ken Henriksen

Department of Language, Literature and Culture

Aarhus University

Denmark/Dinamarca

Tradition as a Modern Strategy: Indigenous Knowledge, Local Governance and National Development in Nigeria

Geoffrey I. Nwaka

Department of History

Abia State University, Uturu,

Nigeria

Stepping out of the Closet and into the Classroom: Strategies for Building Relationships Between Gay Educators and Their Learning Communities

Christopher Palmi

Department of English

National-Louis University

Estados Unidos

Rescuing Personal History: Benjamin, Winnicott, Milner, and Bion

Elizabeth Stewart

Department of English

Yeshiva University, New York

Estados Unidos

‘La Ruta Maya: Resurgent Politics in the Memory Migrations of the Maya.’

Robert John Brocklehurst

Department of English and Drama

Loughborough University

Loughborough, Leicestershire

United Kingdom/Reino Unido

Commensality Narratives and Identity Dynamics in an Unbounded Ethnic Minority

Constance deRoche and John deRoche

Department of Socio-cultural Anthropology

Department of Sociology

Cape Breton University

Canada

Interior and Exterior Wilderness: Localizing Identity in Everyday “Homes”

Jaime Yard

Department of Social Anthropology

York University, Toronto

Canada

Papeles de género en la construcción de la chilenidad durante las celebraciones del 18 de septiembre entre chilenos en la diáspora. Evidencias desde España

Juan Velasquez

Department of Ethnology

Institute for Comparative Religions and Gender Studies

Stockholms Universitet

Sweden/Suecia

Silence as indication of transitions in multi-cultural Israel

Michal Ephratt

Department of Hebrew Language,

University of Haifa, Haifa,

Israel

“Made by real Mexicans”: (re)visiting Mexicaness in Canada

Federico Barahona

Department of Theatre, Film and Creative Writing

University of British Columbia

Canada

Borat: transnational identity theft and the remediating of cultural appropriations

Adam Cantor

Department of Art History and Communication Studies

McGill University, Montreal

Canada

Memory as Concept in the Design of Digital Recording Devices

Lina Dib

Anthropology department,

Rice University

(Estados Unidos)

History and Memory in the Context of Conflict and Displacement

Shifting Burdens: Memory and History in Post-Genocide Rwanda's Unity and Reconciliation Project

Laura Eramian

Department of Anthropology

York University, Toronto

Canada

The Nationalist Nomads and the Nomadic Nation: History/Memory and the refugees of Western Sahara

Randa Farah

Anthropology Department

Social Science Center

University of Western Ontario

London, Ontario

Canada