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eMigrating Landscapes 4: Polish eMigrants
20 June 2013, 5:00 pm–9:00 pm
Event Information
Open to
- All
20 June 2013
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When The series is hosted by UCL SSEES with the support of the Polish Cultural Institute and the European Institute |
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The fourth of 8 seminars in 2013, this event focuses on the notion of generation in the poetry of Maria Jastrzębska and the prose of Marek Kazmierski, who will be in discussion with SJ Fowler.
As a whole,
the eMigrating Landscapes Project aims at conceptualizing and presenting
various cultural, literary and artistic perspectives on emigration,
migration and displacement border crossings.
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Online Platform The project website also doubles as the online platform for seminars on Contemporary Emigration and its Literary and Artistic Representations. |
The project
eMigrating Landcapes, organized by dr. Urszula Chowaniec and University College London SSEES with the co-operation of Off_Press, Polish Cultural Institute, UCL European Institute and friends, has been created with the aim of initiating and stimulating transnational, transcultural and transdisciplinary dialogues on emigration and migration, displacement and the crossing of numerous borders.
Since the post-communist transformations of the late 1980s and the 1990s in Eastern and Central Europe and the ensuing EU enlargement of 2004, migration has become a significant trait within contemporary Europe and an increasingly important factor in social conflict affecting various parts of the continent. Contemporary migration and/or emigration has brought a new political rhetoric, resulting in social turmoil as well as new cultural, literary and artistic production. In our seminar series in 2013, these problems will be scrutinized based on the discussion on particular literary and cultural events within Polish culture.
The project will cover the following problems within émigré cultural production:
- Notion of generations: is this new emigration different in terms of generational experiences?
- Gender: is gender a chief factor the new art and literature in the emigration context?
- Social background (class): who is Polish émigré culture directed to and produced by?
- Excluded communities (transgression): how are "aliens" processed by the criminal justice system and what is their experience of incarceration in a foreign country?
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