Displacement and Diaspora 2023 - Displacement and Diaspora: Seeking a modern understanding of the terms

This conference seeks to explore displacement and the concept of diaspora through an interdisciplinary lens. Whether due to war, colonialism, or environmental deterioration, we are seeking analyses of the causes of displacement, and we want to hear stories from and about the diaspora. Whether it be studies of diasporic literature, analyses of environmentally-influenced migration, or glimpses into what it means to be part of a digital diaspora, we are seeking to have our understanding of the terms diaspora and displacement challenged and reshaped.
Themes/Topics:
Activism
Alienation and displacement
Art and film
Belonging and Belongingness
Citizenship
Climate change displacement
Communities of culture (and cultures of healing)
Concept of home
Crime displacement
Cultural identity and community
Cultural hybridity (Hybridized cultural practice)
Diasporic cinema
Diaspora communities
Diasporic culture
Diaspora curriculum
Diaspora geopolitics
Diaspora as social movements
Diasporic literature(s)/Canadian literature
Diaspora tourism
Digital diaspora
Food in the diaspora
Forced displacement
Gendered transnational selves
Human rights
Homeland politics
Hostlands and homelands
Imagined communities
Immigration and emigration
Imperialism
Indigenous diaspora within settler colonial states
Instability of national categories
Internal displacement
Internment
Invisibility
Language socialization
Memory-making, Nostalgia and In-Betweeness
Music and visual culture
Public policy
Post coloniality and the politics of location
Psychology of displacement
Queer diasporas
Refugees
Religious identity and diaspora
Spaces of visibility and resistance
Statelessness
Transnational literature
Trauma and terror
War crimes