Memory, Migration and Movement

200 Avenue de la République, 92000 Nanterre, France

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PoP MOVES, in partnership with l'Université de Paris Nanterre and La Colonie, is holding its 2018 conference in Paris on the theme of Memory, Migration and Movement.

The international research network for performances of the popular continues to advance the field by creating a new Francophone node to foster conversations and sharing between scholars, artists and institutions across linguistic worlds. To celebrate this expansion, PoP MOVES will hold a joint launch event and conference in Paris to explore relationships between memory, migration and movement.

Provisional Schedule

SATURDAY 8th DECEMBER
Université de Paris Nanterre

8.30-9.00: Registration

Throughout the day

IPod/Poster installation in Lobby
'Exploring colonial sounds: Developing counter-representations of the Afro-Ecuadorian music genres, dances and instruments of Marimba Esmeraldeña and Bomba del Chota' - María Gabriela López Yánez

9.00-9.15

Welcome Address

Laura Steil (School for International Training) and Clare Parfitt (University of Chichester)

9.15-11.15

Panel 1: Sonic Citizenship/Embodied Belonging
'If my luck doesn't desert me...' - Diego Astorga de Ita (Durham University)
'Disco memories and diva disavowals' - Melissa Blanco Borelli (Royal Holloway, University of London)
'The moving cloth of Angélique Kidjo' (Performance/lecture demonstration) - Rashida K. Braggs (Williams College)

Panel 2: Dance Interventions
'Dancing to change the world' - Ray Batchelor (The Queer Tango Project)
'Re-constucting, re-creating, re-imagining: Exploring the use of popular dance films as a site for dance and disability interventions' - Kathryn Stamp (Coventry University)
'What can a body do' (workshop/performance) - Jon Irigoyen (Aalto University)

Panel 3: Dancing Memory/Healing Trauma
'Choreographed bodies: Returnee recollection, dance, and memorialization in post (1994)-genocide Rwanda' - Kate Temoney (Montclair State University)
'Dancing the traumatic past away: The performativity of dance for survivors of the Holocaust and their descendants' - Diana Popescu (Birkbeck, University of London)
'Shapeshifters: Self-organizing systems, migration and repetition at the intersection of folk and popular dance' (lecture demonstration) - Ruth Pethybridge (Falmouth University), Jo Parkes (Mobile Dance e.V), Jane Turner (London Metropolitan University)

11.15-11.30: Break

11.30-1.00

Panel 4: Migrating Media
'Networked Shôjo (girls) and the migration of gesture: (The danger of) cute girl imitation, assimilation, and reproduction through corporeal/media convergence' - Katherine Mezur (University of California, Berkeley)
'Dis/orienting place, space and spectatorship: Paaris Goebel's Polyswagg and the politics of YouTube encounters' - Elena Benthaus (University of Melbourne)
'Remembering and forgetting: Smooth Criminal's cultural histories, global circulations, and counter-memories' - Elizabeth June Bergman (Temple University)

Panel 5: Sustaining Resistance
'Movements of sustainability: A look at capoeira Angola as a practice of cultural resistance achored on movement, memory and migration' - Cristina Rosa (University of Roehampton)
'Exister et résister : danser avec les bboys et bgirls à Mayotte' - Pierre-Henri Daculsi (Université Paris, Nanterre)
'Danses paysannes pérégrinantes en Europe au Moyen Âge tardif : Migration mémorielle d’une condition humaine?' - Panayota Volti (Université Paris, Nanterre)

Lecture-Demonstration
'Interdepen(dance)' - Sylvia Grove (Susquehanna University) and Jen Boum Maké (University of Pittsburgh)

1.00-1.45: Lunch (to keep conference registration free, we request that delegates either bring their own lunch or purchase sandwiches at the venue)

1.45-3.15

Panel 6: Performing (post-)migration

'Fluid recollections: (Re)presentations of the double-bind in Pour que les larmes de nos meres deviennent légende' - Keziah Berelson (University of Leeds)
'Wrong names, right moves?: Mourad Merzouki’s Pixel and Kader Attou’s The Roots' - Felicia McCarren (University of Tulane)

'Bouger beaucoup, bouger pas trop. Variantes et tendances de la danse kizomba entre l’Angola (Luanda) et l’Europe' - Federica Toldo (Université Paris, Nanterre)

Panel 7: (De)territorialising Gender
'Divine diamonds: Embodiment and movement in the French banlieue' - Margaret C. Flinn (Ohio State University)
'The way back? France/Algeria, virile territory, and masculinities in motion' - Megan C. MacDonald (University of Aix-Marseille/University of Istanbul)
'Dancing reggaeton: Expressing, challenging and reinforcing cultural identities' - Alexandra Quinn (University of Roehampton/Independent Scholar)

3.15-3.30: Break

3.30-5.00

Panel 8: Migrating Movements
'Samba migrations: From Brazil to Australia' (video presentation) - Lilian Jean Shaddick (University of Sydney)
'Russians rumba-ing in Reno? The lived experience of foreign ballroom dancers in the US ballroom dance industry' - Roger Wiblin (Brigham Young University)
'Remembering and reflecting on movement migrations between London, Paris and Martinique: The case of two Zil’Oka dancers' (Curated Conversation) - Celena Monteiro (Kingston University, London) and Dr. Nathalie Montlouis Despois (Independent scholar)

5.00-6.00: Plenary

6.00-7.00: Francophone Node Launch

7.00-10.00: Conference Dinner

SUNDAY 9th DECEMBER
La Colonie

3.00-5.00

Popular Dance students curated discussion - Facilitated by Laura Steil (School for International Training) and Sisa Calapi (Université de Paris Nanterre)

5.00-7.00

Roundtable
Parisian popular dancers (title tbc) - Afouz "Regulate" Olongo (Melting Crew), Anaïs Imbert-Clery (Paradox'sal), Clarck Donovan, Fabrice "Pika" Taraud (Black History Month, Les Gens De, FBL), Jin Kash, Michel "Meech" Onomo (Ghost Flow, O'Trip), Nadia "Nadeeya" Gabrieli Kalati (Paradox'sal, Dipita Moovement), Raïssa Leï (KifKifBledi), Youri Comuce.

Chaired by Laura Steil (School for International Training)

7.00-11.00

Jam, DJ Set and Drinks