[csaa-forum] Imagining Europa without African Migrant Workers FREE LECTURE Fabulous Prof. Ekotto Speaking

[Katrina Schlunke]

Dear CSSAA Colleagues – Please let all your postgraduates and other colleagues know about this event tomorrow night – they are all warmly invited. Many thanks , Katrina
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Transforming Cultures<http://www.transforming.cultures.uts.edu.au/> is pleased to announce the 2012 Annual Lecture given by the centre's Distinguished Visiting Scholar: Professor Frieda Ekotto, University of Michigan Imagining Europe without African Migrant Workers

When I open my door, I must be ready to take the greatest risks   Jacques Derrida

Abstract: My presentation will concentrate on genealogies of violence in the crossing of borders, a crossing that often produces trauma, chaos, loss and death. It is possible to examine the devastating impact of migration on the physical and psychic lives of the people in Sub-Saharan Africa, and we must confront the disturbing ways in which violence and oppression are repeated in the cultural imaginary despite the efforts of black subjects to speak out against that violence.

Very little has really changed: in continuous waves of immigration, African bodies die in the sea in search of better economic opportunities. First, I suggest we must better understand the borders that these subjects cross and second, it is important to examine the ways in which filmmakers (Ousmane Sembène’s film The Black Girl (1968) and Eléonore Yameogo’s Paris my Paradise (2011) have produced images that have shaped the current conception of immigration as hospitality fail to describe adequately or to synchronize the contact between immigrants and host societies.


Date: 12 September 2012
Time:17:30
Location:City - Broadway CB10 Building 2, Level 4, Room 4.11
Audience: All Welcome FREE EVENT
RSVP:Transforming.Cultures at uts.edu.au<mailto:Transforming.Cultures at uts.edu.au> for catering purposes

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