[csaa-forum] Seminars on the Transnational at UNSW 9th Nov: Isabelle Hesse: Humouring the Conflict: Cosmopolitanism and Israel/Palestine in 21st Century Travel Writing

[Laetitia Nanquette]

Seminars on the Transnational: Humouring the Conflict: Cosmopolitanism and Israel/Palestine in 21st Century Travel Writing
Wednesday 9th November, 5pm - 6:30pm
Dr Isabelle Hesse, The University of Sydney
UNSW, Room 327, Robert Webster Building

Isabelle Hesse is a Lecturer at the University of Sydney. She researches and teaches in the area of modern and contemporary world literature. Her work is situated at the nexus of postcolonial, Jewish, and Middle Eastern studies and has been published in Textual Practice and Postcolonial Text. Her first book is entitled The Politics of Jewishness (2016).

Her presentation takes as its starting point Ulrich Beck’s argument that cosmopolitanism ‘has to lose its fixation on the purely global and be redirected to the interconnection between the global and the local’ (2004: 183). Building on Beck’s concept of cosmopolitanism, she considers how the connection between the global and the local, in this case the conflict in Israel/Palestine and its audiences, is established in two recent travelogues from Germany and the UK: Theresa Bäuerlein’s Das war der gute Teil des Tages (2008; That was the good part of the day) and Mark Thomas’s Extreme Rambling: Walking Israel’s Separation Barrier. For Fun (2011). She interrogates to what extent travel writing and the humorous mode contribute to attempting to overcome these macro-interdependencies and to offering alternative perspectives on the conflict in Israel/Palestine that deviate from much contemporary discourse on Israel/Palestine, which is often limited due to political considerations, including a fear of being accused of anti-Semitism.

https://sam.arts.unsw.edu.au/events/seminars-on-the-transnational-humouring-the-conflict/


All are very welcome to the seminar. There is no need to register. For enquiries: l.nanquette at unsw.edu.a<mailto:l.nanquette at unsw.edu.au>u

Dr Laetitia Nanquette,
Lecturer and Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow,
School of Arts and Media,
University of New South Wales, Sydney
+61 (2) 9385 7792



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