This event is part of the RECET Festival of Historical and Social Sciences "Migration & Transformation".
Event venue: Campus of the University of Vienna („Altes AKH“), festival tent in Hof 1
Position of the tent: https://goo.gl/maps/8FjYQNtdnaUiKCcs6
This roundtable discussion will provide embedded insights from and about diasporic realities in Europe, with a particular focus on the voices and challenges of migrants and the diasporic communities. The panel convenes scholarly, artistic, and activist perspectives to examine their role in shaping migrant self-understanding, self-organization, conflicts, and (counter)narratives in the public sphere. How do these challenges and contradictions shape the diasporic condition? How can diasporic life-worlds, micro-structures and interventions can shape the public order? Avoiding stereotyping and exoticizing, this panel aims to highlight diasporic internal diversities, conflicting political and personal loyalties, and how they are negotiated in transnational and local spaces.
The panel will be moderated by Daria Tashkinova (RECET).
Dieu Hao Do is a filmmaker and screenwriter whose work explores contemporary Asian-German perspectives and life in the diaspora, focusing on intergenerational themes of war, trauma, and cultural heritage. He studied film directing at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf. Dieu Hao Do is a community organiser of the Berlin Asian Film Network (BAFNET), a non-profit initiative promoting nuanced representations of Asian-Germans in film and television. Recent projects include the feature film: Hao Are You (2023). Do lives and works in Berlin.
Thục Linh Nguyễn Vũ is a postdoctoral fellow at the Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET) at the University of Vienna. Her research focuses on the socialist entanglements between Poland and Vietnam after 1955. Linh is interested in the history of Poland, Vietnam, cultural history, decolonization, and global Cold War. She has published in scholarly journals (Cahiers du Monde Russe, History Workshop Journal, etc.) and non-scholarly outlets (Zeitgeschichte-online, TAZ, Krytyka Polityczna, The Conversation, etc.). Linh spent the academic year 2023/2024 as German Kennedy Memorial Fellow at Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University.
Dženeta Karabegović is an Associate Professor at the University of Salzburg where she recently habilitated in both sociology and political science. Her work explores migration, diaspora, transnationalism, social movements, foreign policy, transitional justice, and the Western Balkans. She holds a PhD in Politics and International Studies from the University of Warwick, an MA in International Relations from the University of Chicago, and a BA (Hons) in German and Political Science with a minor in Holocaust Studies from the University of Vermont. Her academic contributions appear in a range of peer-reviewed journals and she has co-edited several volumes, including the first book on Bosnia and Herzegovina's foreign policy, diasporas and transitional justice, migration studies in Austria, and Bosnian Studies. Beyond academia, she has consulted for the IOM, UN Women, OSCE, and the World Bank, as well as regional and local organizations, and regularly guest lectures in and beyond Europe in policy and academic settings. She serves on the boards of Transparency International BiH, ŠTO TE NEMA, and Humanity in Action BiH. Born in Banja Luka, she grew up in Berlin, Germany, and Burlington, Vermont, and works across English, German, and BCS.
Daria Tashkinova is currently a PhD candidate in the doc.funds project "The Dynamics of Change and Logics of Transformation: State, Society and Economy at Critical junctures" where she focuses on labour migration practices in the late Soviet Union.
