NeMLA 2018, Pittsburgh, April 12-15
"The Refugee Between Aesthetics and Politics, Past and Present" (Seminar)
Chairs: John Walsh, Jennifer Boum Make (University of Pittsburgh)
Contributions to the seminar should focus on artistic representations of present-day migrants and refugees or on historical contexts that may shed light on the current displacement and marginalization of various populations. We welcome papers at the intersection of aesthetics and politics that take up a range of questions related to the figure of the refugee, including national identity and the construction of alterity, human rights and asylum, migration and climate change, and military intervention and humanitarian aid.
Please submit abstracts (250 words) by September 30th to the following link: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/16816
Notification will be sent by October 15, 2017.
Please note that you do not need to be a NeMLA member to submit an abstract.