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Acclaimed scholars of film, music, literature, history and television will converge on York March 30 for an international symposium on Ethnonationalism, Transnationalism and Media Culture.<\/p>\nAcclaimed scholars of film, music, literature, history and television will converge on York March 30 for an international symposium on Ethnonationalism, Transnationalism and Media Culture.<\/p>\n
The symposium will explore the impact of an increasingly globalized media on the creation, evolution and diffusion of national and transnational identities. Speakers from universities in England, the United States and Canada will talk about media, linguistic communities and geopolitical areas.<\/p>\n
Among an international roster of speakers are four from Canada, including two from York:<\/p>\n
Anne A. Ihejirika<\/strong>, York University – The Possibilities and Limitations of Translation and Rewriting as Literature in Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God<\/em> and Maryse Condé's Windward Heights<\/em> (La migration des coeurs<\/em>) Five are from the United States:<\/p>\n
\nSusan Ingram<\/strong>, York University – Pretty in Pink: Berlin Fashion between Ethno- and Transnationalism
\nKarim H. Karim<\/strong>, Carleton University – Bollywood and the Non-Resident Indian: Pursuing Government Policy and the Diasporic Dollar
\nRobert Ventresca<\/strong>, University of Western Ontario – "Write, publish, say what you think": Catholic Transnationalism among European Emigrés during the Second World War. The Case of Jacques Maritain, Yves R. Simon and Don Luigi Sturzo<\/p>\n