The German Historical Institute in Washington, DC (GHI) (Web) is organizing a panel series for the 2017 Annual Conference of the German Studies Association; Simone Lässig (GHI Washington) and Swen Steinberg (TU Dresden)

Time: October 5-8, 2017
Venue: Atlanta, Georgia
Proposals by: 15.12.2016

The organizers invite proposals for presentations that address the nexus of kinship, knowledge, and migration in any time period. They are particularly interested in the question of how knowledge interacted with kin networks and how such networks were produced and transformed by migration processes. Presentations that explicitly reflect on sources, theoretical frameworks, and methodological approaches will be especially welcome.

Possible topics include:

• migrant families or kith and kin as knowledge networks: relationships between generations; gender issues; the roles of children as go-betweens and as conveyors, translators, and producers of knowledge in migration and integration processes;
• knowledge distribution: personal networks, institutions, and organizations dealing with knowledge and migrants of different ages (schools, churches, emigration associations); sources of knowledge production and circulation (migrant letters, photographs and other images, advice literature, newspapers, textbooks and children’s literature, other kinds of artifacts); Read more … (Web)