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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">UPDATE
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Philosophy@UWS presents A Research Seminar with
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><a href="http://uws.edu.au/philosophy/philosophy@uws/events/research_seminars_2014/fiona_jenkins"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Fiona Jenkins</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><br>
</span></b><b><i><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">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:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">DATE/TIME:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"> Wednesday, 29 October, 3.30pm-5.00pm (Please note a change
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<b>PLACE:</b> University of Western Sydney, Bankstown Campus, Building 3, Room 3.G.27&nbsp; [How to get to Bankstown Campus]
</span><a href="http://www.uws.edu.au/campuses_structure/cas/campuses/bankstown"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">http://www.uws.edu.au/campuses_structure/cas/campuses/bankstown</span></a><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">ABSTRACT:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"> (updated)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">A passage through extra-legality seems 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 this paper, I am interested in how disturbances to the constituting imagination of borders might correspond with the capacity to re-generate the vitality of the political bodies they serve to enclose, revealing an exposed, desirous and
 unstable national citizenry. In particular, the paper explores modes of creative political engagement with the desire &#8216;illegal&#8217; others have - or are pictured as having - to attain economic and political benefits in their passage to wealthy nations. Theoretically,
 one task of the discussion is to examine how far the terms of Judith Butler&#8217;s recent work on the politics and potential of co-habitation might take us in thinking here.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">The national border of wealthy nations is today most often figured as protecting a stable prosperity, an idealised state of national being that is in turn mapped onto the legal
 status of the citizen. Merging into one the figure of the &#8216;asylum seeker&#8217; and the economic migrant, political discourse of recent times casts the desire to arrive at such a shore as deathly and threatening. At stake in this politics is an image of the state&#8217;s
 power of self-determination, its self-protection as prosperous, and a corresponding refusal to seek terms of co-existence with those who press on borders, albeit often guised as humanitarian concern.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Yet as relations of desire and possession are together negotiated, policed, confirmed or undermined, other possibilities of engagement might open. Reading
<i>Casablanca</i> (1942) and <i>Welcome</i> (2009) as two films exploring just that territory, the first in the context of WWII, the second in the context of the &#8216;open borders&#8217; of the EU, I examine how 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. What forms
 of co-existence become possible on such terms? And how might they damage the aspirations of today&#8217;s sovereign borders to carry the force of law by enclosing an insular prosperity?
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