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The New Media & the Global Diaspora Symposium will focus primarily on the migrations of the past 100 years and how the “living traditions” transmitted by these communities are continually subject to loss, gain and interpretation. New Media plays a role, both direct and indirect, in this process as these traditions become transplanted into their “new home.”
We intend that this symposium provide a forum for researchers in the many disciplines studying the nature, significance and consequence of global migration. We welcome papers and panel proposals in the fields of politics, anthropology, sociology, communication, rhetoric, arts, literature and the history of technology with a particular focus on how New Media differentiates the 20th century immigrant experience from earlier migrations. We include, as the closing event of the symposium, a concert and dance illustrating some of the living traditions these communities have nurtured in their “new home.”
Call and conference details can be found at http://faculty.rwu.edu/roconnell/call.html.
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