We have spoken to 2 senior professors (my thesis advisors) and 1 guest professor about our ideas, and so far, it seems that the structures at the Humboldt University will not allow for much change. One of the senior professors seemed very supportive and recommended we look at the Excellence Initiative, but unfortunately he's retiring after this term. The other wasn't interested at all. She suggested speaking to the faculty of the Asian and African Studies Institute if I wanted to write my dissertation on sinophone diaspora.
The guest professor, Dr. Christine Vogt-William, was wonderfully helpful and very generous with her insight. She warned me that this was a Juggernaut (her word choice) of a project and that it'd be a lot of work, but also offered (among other things) a lengthy list of scholars, publications, existing academic programs and conferences centered on diaspora and migration in Germany and in Europe. In the end, we agreed that a conference would be a manageable way to gage interest and work out some of the basic issues, and that Nina and I urgently need to find backing from the professors who are the decision makers. A possible next step is to think about setting up a program, which entails a whole new set of questions and issues. It was the most exciting and frightening conversation I've had in some time.
By the way: Grada Kilomba is a guest professor at the HU, and she's pretty much on board.
As to our own projects: Whereas Nina is still waiting for the results of her M.A. thesis, I have just sent out my first dissertation exposé/application to the University of Cologne. There's a new project there called Reading Global, but as interesting as it might be (World Literature in the Global South with emphasis on Latin America), I don't really think I'll move to Cologne if I get the post. It was good to begin writing my ideas out anyway. I still have 4 months to write the exposés for the programs I really want to do, i.e. either registering as a PhD student at the Humboldt with (hopefully) a scholarship from the Chilean government, or the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School at the Free University with a scholarship from the DFG.
The guest professor, Dr. Christine Vogt-William, was wonderfully helpful and very generous with her insight. She warned me that this was a Juggernaut (her word choice) of a project and that it'd be a lot of work, but also offered (among other things) a lengthy list of scholars, publications, existing academic programs and conferences centered on diaspora and migration in Germany and in Europe. In the end, we agreed that a conference would be a manageable way to gage interest and work out some of the basic issues, and that Nina and I urgently need to find backing from the professors who are the decision makers. A possible next step is to think about setting up a program, which entails a whole new set of questions and issues. It was the most exciting and frightening conversation I've had in some time.
By the way: Grada Kilomba is a guest professor at the HU, and she's pretty much on board.
As to our own projects: Whereas Nina is still waiting for the results of her M.A. thesis, I have just sent out my first dissertation exposé/application to the University of Cologne. There's a new project there called Reading Global, but as interesting as it might be (World Literature in the Global South with emphasis on Latin America), I don't really think I'll move to Cologne if I get the post. It was good to begin writing my ideas out anyway. I still have 4 months to write the exposés for the programs I really want to do, i.e. either registering as a PhD student at the Humboldt with (hopefully) a scholarship from the Chilean government, or the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School at the Free University with a scholarship from the DFG.
For the next month or so, I'll mostly just be either reading or compiling reading lists...
Knott, Kim and Seán McLoughlin (eds). Diasporas. 2013.
Patton, Cindy, Benigno Sánchez-Eppler et. al (eds). Queering Diasporas. 2000.
Braziel, Jana Evans, Anita Mannur (eds). Theorizing Diaspora: A Reader. 2003.
Literature on the Move: Comparing Diasporic Ethnicities in Europe and the Americas. 2002.
Patton, Cindy, Benigno Sánchez-Eppler et. al (eds). Queering Diasporas. 2000.
Braziel, Jana Evans, Anita Mannur (eds). Theorizing Diaspora: A Reader. 2003.
Literature on the Move: Comparing Diasporic Ethnicities in Europe and the Americas. 2002.
Reading List Diaspora, Chinese Speaking East Asia
Kuei-fen Chiu, Dafydd Fell, Lin Ping. Migration to and From Taiwan. 2013.
Kuei-fen Chiu, Dafydd Fell, Lin Ping. Migration to and From Taiwan. 2013.
Sunil S. Amrith. Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia. 2011.
Ma, Sheng-mei. Diaspora Literature and Visual Culture. 2011.
Ma, Laurence J. The Chinese Diaspora: Space, Place, Mobility, and Identity (Why of Where). 2003.
By Rey Chow:
Ma, Sheng-mei. Diaspora Literature and Visual Culture. 2011.
Ma, Laurence J. The Chinese Diaspora: Space, Place, Mobility, and Identity (Why of Where). 2003.
By Rey Chow:
Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies. 1993.
Woman and Chinese Modernity: The Politics of Reading Between West and East. 1991.
Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory: Reimagining a Field. 2000.
Between Languages. Comparative Literature Studies, Ed. R. Chow & Réda Bensmaïa. 42.4 (2005).
Woman and Chinese Modernity: The Politics of Reading Between West and East. 1991.
Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory: Reimagining a Field. 2000.
Between Languages. Comparative Literature Studies, Ed. R. Chow & Réda Bensmaïa. 42.4 (2005).
Reading List Postcolonialism, Modernity, Aesthetics
Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. 1993.
Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. 1993.
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization. 2012.
This might also be interesting:
Kuortti, Joel. Transculturation and Aesthetics. Ambivalence, Power, and Literature. 2015.
Suggested additions or amendments?
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