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July 28, 2009
Immigrant Cultural Production in Europe 10/09-10/2009, FL
IMMIGRANT CULTURAL PRODUCTION IN EUROPE
October 9-10, 2009
Centre for European Studies
University of Florida
On behalf of the Center for European Studies (CES) at the University of Florida, Gainesville, we are inviting scholars to participate in a two-day workshop, entitled: “Immigrant Cultural Production in Europe”. The workshop is to be held on Friday October 9 and Saturday October 10, 2009.
This workshop is part of series of academic and cultural events, which CES is hosting during 2008-2009 academic year, under the auspices of a grant from the Jean Monnet Lifelong Learning Program, funded by the European Commission. Participants receive small grant for travel and accommodation, as well as a honorarium.
Description of the topic:
Broadly construed as forms of creative expression produced by members of immigrant and/or subaltern groups, immigrant cultural production frequently thematizes the experience and affect of exile, uprootedness, and dislocation. In Europe and elsewhere, film, literature, poetry, music, art, and the performing arts serve as a medium for immigrants and “post” immigrants to respond to the ethnocentric homogeneity of host cultures, and articulate ethnic and diasporic identities.
This workshop engages the cultural politics of works produced from the viewpoint of “exiles” and “immigrants,” and seeks to respond to several general questions: Do such works exemplify a different poetics and aesthetics, and if so, what are its defining features? How do such works problematize the normative representation of immigrants in host cultures, which are typically structured around the tropes of the nomad, the laborer, the uprooted victim, the hybrid cosmopolite, and the (Muslim) transmigrant? How does immigrant cultural production articulate exile, immigrant and post-immigrant identities, negotiates racism, sexism, and prejudice, responds to ethnocentric homogeneity of host cultures, overcomes linguistic barriers, reaches broader audiences? How does it cross racial frontiers and enact solidarity across class and cultural lines? What are the politics of memory embedded in such works? What are the effects of the reification of immigrant cultures, and the commercialization of immigrant cultural production?
In the course of this workshop, a group of four to six internationally known scholars from Europe and the United States will be invited to convene in order to discuss these questions in an informal, intimate setting.
If interested please contact: Dr. Maria Stoilkova, stoilkov@anthro.ufl.edu and Dr. Esther Romeyn, esromeyn@ufl.edu.
Posted by uunguyen at July 28, 2009 02:00 PM