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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://uws.edu.au/philosophy/philosophy@uws/events/research_seminars_2014/fiona_jenkins">Fiona Jenkins</a><br>
</span></b><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Imagining Vital Borders<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">DATE/TIME:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Wednesday, 1 October, 3.30pm-5.00pm<br>
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<b>PLACE:</b> University of Western Sydney, Bankstown Campus, Building 3, Room 3.G.27 [How to get to Bankstown Campus]
<a href="http://www.uws.edu.au/campuses_structure/cas/campuses/bankstown">http://www.uws.edu.au/campuses_structure/cas/campuses/bankstown</a></span><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">ABSTRACT:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The idea of a border is inseparable from the imagery and narrative that maintains and adapts it to changing circumstances and demands. In one illustrative gesture of such border-constituting
work, the Australian newspaper presented the coffin of an infant lost at sea as 'the defining image of the asylum-seeker debate in 2013', a claim it repeated many times, always relating the image to the 'policy failure' of which it served as the sign. The
border conjured in this case functions as a kind of visual screen, blocking the relations we might otherwise be compelled to acknowledge as of common or national concern. At the same time it marks a mode of engagement with the desire 'illegal' others have
- or are pictured as having - to attain the prize that is Australia, by casting this very desire as deathly and threatening.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">As is the case here, the national border of wealthy nations is most often constituted as containing and protecting the imagined terms of a stable prosperity, an idealised
state of national being that is in turn mapped onto the legal status of the citizen. In this space, however, borders must in fact regularly change places as relations of desire and possession are together negotiated, policed, confirmed or undermined. Reading
Casablanca (1942) and Welcome (2009) as two films exploring just that territory, the first in the context of WWII, the second in the context of the 'open borders' of the EU, I examine how the figure of the people-smuggler appears in these films as a morally
complex character who moves through zones of extra-legality made prominent in the visual and narrative organisation of these films. The articulation of desire in these two films permits the asylum-seeker to be a lover and idealist, one who revitalises the
political terms on which borders might be negotiated by exposing the intimate relationships of the protagonists to the extra-legal dimensions of romance, divorce, and infidelity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A certain extra-legality is inevitable in the context of flows of people, and in the condition of a border, as a place of transit, a place of change from one status
to another. Throughout the paper, I am interested in how disturbances to the constituting imagination of the 'border' might correspond with the capacity to re-generate the vitality of an exposed, desirous and thus unstable national citizenry.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>For future research seminars on Philosophy, please visit</b>: <a href="http://www.uws.edu.au/philosophy/seminars2014">
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<b>For further information in Philosophy@UWS, please visit: </b><a href="http://www.uws.edu.au/philosophy"><span style="color:windowtext">http://www.uws.edu.au/philosophy</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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