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CALL FOR PAPERS:
IMMIGRANT CULTURAL PRODUCTION IN EUROPE
October 9-10, 2009
Centre for European Studies
University of Florida
Description:
Immigrant cultural production—broadly construed as forms of creative
expression produced by members of immigrant and/or subaltern groups,
frequently in languages other than that of the majority
culture—frequently thematizes the experience and affect of exile,
uprootedness, and dislocation. In Europe and elsewhere, film,
literature, poetry, music, art, and the performing arts serve as a
medium for immigrants and “post” immigrants to respond to the
ethnocentric homogeneity of host cultures, and articulate ethnic and
diasporic identities.
This workshop engages the cultural politics of works produced from the
viewpoint of “exiles” and “immigrants.” Do such works exemplify a
different poetics and aesthetics, and if so, what are its defining
features? How do such works problematize the normative representation of
immigrants in host cultures, which are typically structured around the
tropes of the nomad, the laborer, the uprooted victim, the hybrid
cosmopolite, and the (Muslim) transmigrant? How does immigrant cultural
production articulate exile, immigrant and post-immigrant identities,
negotiates racism, sexism, and prejudice, responds to ethnocentric
homogeneity of host cultures, overcomes linguistic barriers, reaches
broader audiences? How does it cross racial frontiers and enact
solidarity across class and cultural lines? What are the politics of
memory embedded in such works? What are the effects of the reification
of immigrant cultures, and the commercialization of immigrant cultural
production?
In the course of this workshop, a group of four to six beginning and
experienced scholars (sociologists, cultural anthropologists, literary
scholars, film scholars) from Europe and the United States will be
invited to convene in order to discuss these questions in an informal,
intimate setting.
Participants will be reimbursed for travel and receive lodging for two
nights if traveling from within the US, or three nights if traveling
from abroad.
Anyone interested in participating please submit an abstract of 200
words and a brief (one page) CV to:
esromeyn@??? <
mailto:esromeyn@ufl.edu>
-- Anwen
Anwen Tormey
Assistant Director
Chicago Ctr. for Contemporary Theory (3CT)
Wilder House
5811 S. Kenwood
Chicago, IL 60637
Tel: 773.702.0230
Fax: 773.702.0235
amtormey@??? <
mailto:amtormey@uchicago.edu>
