14th Annual International Conference on Visual and Performing Arts | |||
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| 1 | The Transmission and Maintenance of Diaspora Identity Through time and Generation Academic Responsible: Dr. Maria-Irini Avgoulas, Academic Member & Cultural Counselling and Consultancy, Australia. Diaspora communities with their specific cultural identity are found throughout the world and exist on a continuum of redevelopment as they evolve. The experience of diaspora identity and the transmission of memory culture that supports identity maintenance may vary by generation, the original migrants and their descendants born in diaspora. Diaspora community members of all generations may maintain a sense of nostalgia but also negative emotions of not belonging to either their original homeland or the host community. This may be expressed as having two homelands and, in a sense, belonging to both. While potentially enriching, diaspora identity may in fact be more like belonging nowhere and being a stranger in both cultures. This may represent a negative emotion associated with the experience of migration and acculturation despite the generation of membership. This session will explore the transmission and maintenance of diaspora identity through time and generation and consider how associated psychosocial factors and the recreated social environment of the culture of origin may influence wellbeing and the experience of illness that are significant factors in overall health as well as the promotion of health and wellbeing in diaspora. | Abstract Submitting Form |
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| 2 | Cinema Academic Responsible: Dr. Daniel Binns, Academic Member, ATINER & Lecturer, RMIT University, Australia. The aim of the stream is to bring together academics and researchers of all areas of cinema studies: film analysis, studies of film-economics and film-philosophy, film technology and history, and other attendant areas of inquiry. | Abstract Submitting Form |
