REGISTRATION

Senior Common Room 305
Founders College Room 303




OPENING REMARKS

Professor Martin Singer,
Dean, Liberal Arts & Professional Studies




SESSION I

Recognition and Belonging
CHAIR: Lorna Marsden
Senior Common Room 305



D. Hoerder
Republican Equality and Vieux-souche Francais vs. Coloured Immigrants Hierarchization: The Case of Paris

R. Latham
Post-Multiculturalism and Transnationality: Toward a Multiversal Citizenship

M. Johnson
Caribbean Migrations and Diasporas: Re/defining 'Home'

Recognition and Belonging
CHAIR: Selwyn McSween
Founders College Room 303


M. Telmissany
Bridging Deleuzian Nomadicism and Transnational Cinema

M. Azarmandi
Non-mainstream Cinema: Beyond National Cultural Fields


BREAK


SESSION II

Cosmopolitanism and Immigration
CHAIR: Patrick Taylor
Senior Common Room 305



J. Goulding
Rooted Cosmopolitanism and Chinese Body Phenomenology

F. Quadir
Imagining the Cosmopolis: Racialized Poverty, Religion, and the Struggles for an Identity for Bangladeshis in Canada

W. El Khachab
The City Inhabitants as a Brotherhood of Strangers: Diasporic Sufism Revisited


LUNCH


SESSION III

Democracy and the City
CHAIR: Elio Costa
Senior Common Room 305



J. O'Neill
The Civic Imperative; Nearness, Nextness, and Everywhereness

V. Rosa
Producing Citizens? Diaspora, Community Consultations, and the Regent Park Revitalization Plan

P. Brienza
On the Question of Universal History: From Vico to Hegel


BREAK


SESSION IV

Cosmopolis and Humanism
CHAIR: Gabriele Scardellato
Senior Common Room 305



B. Powe
Visionary Cities

D. de Kerckhove
TBA

E. McLuhan
Electric City

J. Buccheri
Shifting E-Environments: The Challenges of a Cosmopolitan Education

Cosmopolis and Humanism
CHAIR: Fahim Quadir
Founders College Room 303


C. Dewdney
The Natural History

V. Andrisani
In Search of a Sound City: Working Toward a Clairaudient Toronto

M. Buccheri
Under the Spell of Orpheus: Humanism and the Invisible City


BUFFET DINNER

LIVE MUSIC

Keynote Presentation: Professor Donna Gabaccia
"Imagining Nations of Immigrants"
Assembly Hall, Rm 152, Founders College, York University