In 2006, Maruška Svašek (School of History and Anthropology, Queens University Belfast) received AHRC funding from the Diasporas, Migration and Identities programme (http://www.diasporas.ac.uk/research.htm). Svašek used her grant to organise three interdisciplinary conferences on the theme of Emotions and Human Mobility. The aim was to examine the dynamics of emotional processes which underly migration and the formation of diasporic identities. The conferences were held in 2006 and 2007 and explored particular themes, namely
(1) Transnational familes, emotions and belonging (11-12 May 2006)
(2) Emotional interaction: migrants and local communities (17-18 Nov. 2006)
(3) Migrant artefacts, art and emotional agency (9-10 Feb. 2007)
Output
Publications
- 2008 ‘Transnational Families: Emotions and Belonging’, Journal of Intercultural Studies Special issue (ed. M. Svašek).
- Forthcoming ‘Emotions and Migration’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Special issue (ed. M. Svašek).
- Forthcoming Moving Subjects, Moving Objects. Transnationalism and Emotions , Oxford: Berghahn. (ed. M. Svašek).
Exhibitions/Performances
2007 Art exhibition La Joie de Vivre, work by the Spanish artist Ramirez Fernandez Saus, Naughton art gallery, 10 January-24 February 2007.
2007 Art Performance What you Perceive is What You Conceive, 9 February 2007, Performance Room, School of History and Anthropology, Queens University Belfast.
Guest Workshops and Lectures
2007 Two guest lectures at Queens University Belfast for ethnomusicology students on Transnationalism, Indian classical music and Emotions by Marianne Svašek, Rotterdam Conservatorium, 2 and 5 February 2007.
2007 A workshop Indian Dhrupad Singing by Marianne Svašek, Rotterdam Conservatorium, 5 February 2007.