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<p><a tabindex="83" href="http://datasearch2.uts.edu.au/tfc/news-events/events-detail.cfm?ItemId=32332"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">Imagining Europa without African Migrant Workers</span></font></a></p>
<p><a tabindex="84" href="http://www.transforming.cultures.uts.edu.au/">Transforming Cultures</a>
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</p>
<p>When I open my door, I must be ready to take the greatest risks <font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><i>Jacques Derrida</i></span></font> </p><p>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.</p>
<p>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.<br>
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<dt>Date: 12 September 2012</dt>
<dt>Time:17:30</dt>
<dt>Location:City - Broadway CB10 Building 2, Level 4, Room 4.11</dt>
<dt>Audience: <b>All Welcome FREE EVENT</b></dt>
<dt>RSVP:<a tabindex="85" href="mailto:Transforming.Cultures@uts.edu.au">Transforming.Cultures@uts.edu.au</a> for catering purposes</dt>
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