DAY 1 / JOUR 1 – 20/03

9am-9:30am: Welcome and opening remarks / Accueil et ouverture du colloque

PANEL 1 - Collective and Individual Identity Claims: 19ᵗʰ and 20ᵗʰ centuries

9:30am-10:00am: Daniel Samson (Brock University, Canada): “From Presbyterian to Infidel: Immigration and Community in the Diary of a Rural Miller, James Barry, 1822-1906”

10:00am-10:30am: Binyamin Hunyadi (Institute for Advanced Studies, Romania): “Anti- Judaism, Antireligyeze tetikayt and the Emergence of a Yiddish Anarchist Identity in the United States (1890–1918)”

10:30am-11am Merav Bellaiche (Bar Ilan University, Israel): “Sephardic-Oriental women in early-20th century New York: Between Americanization and identity preservation”

Refreshments / Pause café

11:30am-12pm: Vesna Đikanović (Institute for Recent History of Serbia in Belgrade, Serbia): “The Serbian Orthodox Church in the United States of America and Serbian migrants (1919- 1941)”

12pm-12:30pm: Simon Rabinovitch (Northeastern University, USA): “Montréal 1924: An illuminated cross and Jewish migration”

12:30pm-1pm : Anne Dalles Maréchal (Université de Saint-Etienne/GSRL): “‘En quête d'une vie meilleure’: émigration russe évangélique à Vancouver (Canada) et Portland (USA)”

1pm -2:15pm Lunch / Déjeuner

PANEL 2 - Integration and Transmission in the Contemporary Context

2:15pm-2:45pm: Marie Gayte-Lebrun (Université de Toulon): “Les Églises évangéliques, passerelle vers le conservatisme politique pour les immigrés hispaniques ?”

2:45pm-3:15pm: Kalilou Barry (Université Paris-Est Créteil): “Entre communauté et nation : la religion comme levier d’intégration des immigrés ouest-africains musulmans dans la société américaine”

3:15pm-3:45pm: Imen Ben Jemia (Université de l’Ontario français, Canada) and Mahmoud Abu Ali (University of Waterloo, Canada): “Beyond worship: the mosque as refuge for newcomers in Toronto”

4pm-5pm: KEYNOTE SPEAKER / CONFERENCE PLENIERE Blandine Chelini-Pont (Aix-Marseille Université): “De la mission au droit des migrants, la conversion américaine du catholicisme”

DAY 2 / JOUR 2 – 21/03

9:30am-10am: Welcome / Accueil

10am- 11am: KEYNOTE SPEAKER / CONFERENCE PLENIERE Stefania Capone (IRL Mondes en transition, CNRS-USP, São Paulo, Brazil): “La religion des orisha et la lutte pour la liberté religieuse: des sacrifices d’animaux au racisme religieux”

Refreshments / Pause café

PANEL 3 -Transnational Dynamics, De-colonial perspectives, Legal Questions

11:30am-12pm: Ana Fiod (ENS-EHESS Paris and Museu nacional du Brésil, Rio de Janeiro): “Loups-garous en mouvement : pratiques de protection haïtiennes en diaspora”

12pm-12:30pm: Kwasi Boakye-Yiadom (McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada): ‘”Missionary immigrants’ and ‘migrant-missionaries’: a reappraisal of reverse mission through the lens of itinerant missions in Canada and the US”

12:30pm-1pm: Roy Shukrun (Université de Groningen et Université McGill, Canada): “Séphardisme décolonial : migration et activisme communautaire des Juifs Marocains entre Québec et Israël »

1pm -2:30pm Lunch / Déjeuner

2:30pm-3pm: Pamela E. Klassen and Sarina Simmons (University of Toronto, Canada): “Religion, Migration, and Treaty: Perspectives from Manidoo Ziibi (Canada)”

3pm-3:30pm: Liza Sheehy & Rachel Grupp (Northeastern University, USA): “The Jewish Migration Project: Building a Crowdsourced Archive of Jewish Migration”

4pm-5pm: ROUND TABLE / TABLE RONDE Renewing Migration Narratives

Discussion with Mae Ngai (Columbia University) on her forthcoming book A Nation of Immigrants: A Short Story of an Idea / Discussion avec Mae Ngai (Columbia University) autour de son projet d’ouvrage A Nation of Immigrants: A Short Story of an Idea