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<font face="Arial" size="3" class=""><font class="">Seminars on the Transnational: </font><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="">Humouring the Conflict: </span>Cosmopolitanism and Israel/Palestine in 21<sup class="">st</sup> Century Travel Writing</font></h1>
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<div class=""><font face="Arial" size="3" class=""><font class=""><b class="">Dr Isabelle Hesse, </b></font><span style="background-color: rgb(246, 246, 242);" class="">The University of Sydney</span></font></div>
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<p class=""><font face="Arial" size="3" class="">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 <em class="">The Politics of Jewishness</em> (2016).</font></p>
<div class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;" class="">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</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;" class=""> </span><em style="font-family: Arial;" class="">Das war der gute Teil des Tages</em><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;" class="">(2008;</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;" class=""> </span><em style="font-family: Arial;" class="">That
was the good part of the day</em><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;" class="">) and Mark Thomas’s</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;" class=""> </span><em style="font-family: Arial;" class="">Extreme Rambling: Walking
Israel’s Separation Barrier. For Fun</em><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;" class="">(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.</span></div>
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<p class=""><font face="Arial" size="3" class="">All are very welcome to the seminar. There is no need to register. For enquiries: <a href="mailto:l.nanquette@unsw.edu.au" style="text-decoration: none;" class="">l.nanquette@unsw.edu.a</a>u</font></p>
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University of New South Wales, Sydney</font></div>
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