Please register by June 22, 2020, at Zoom.<\/span><\/a> The increased numbers of refugees entering Europe in 2015 put an urgency to discussions on European self-understanding and identity. In which way is Europe, anthropologist Regina R\u00f6mhild asks, \u2018characterized by a long-term presence of migration\u2019 which is partly neglected or made invisible in public discourse (R\u00f6mhild 2018: 69)? How can we methodologically develop an understanding of Europe as a postmigratory space that is fundamentally shaped by earlier and ongoing migration movements? How can the concept of postmigration help us to grasp the overall negotiations and conflicts taking place in society? In two panels we will examine postmigrant narratives as playing a crucial part in challenging collective core narratives and the politics of belonging in plural societies. Our aim is to establish a set of criteria for a new transformative aesthetics that renegotiates and changes political perspectives. We will thus show how literature and film, by questioning binary concepts of hybridity, diversity, integration and belonging, can provide sociopolitical counter-narratives to Eurocentric, ethnically and nationally centred visions of society and cultural identity. The material investigated reaches from cross-Mediterranean mobilities and autoethnographic writings about Italy and the Balkan region to Algerian-French film, from the indigene Black British novel to German- and Danish-language literatures that address topics such as genealogies of self-making, ecocriticism and radical diversity within a European context. We will further critically discuss the theoretical implications of an aesthetics of postmigration as a possible new analytical turn in cultural studies.<\/p>\n Keywords: Postmigration, Narratives of Migration, Ethnic Hybridity, Social Diversity, Cultural Identity, Politics of Belonging, Transformative Aesthetics, Ecocriticism<\/p>\n with Regina R\u00f6mhild<\/a> (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany),<\/strong> organized by Markus Hallensleben<\/a> This event was originally planned as two panels of the The research for this Zoom event is partially supported by the SSHRC Insight Development Grant <\/p>\n
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About the Conference<\/h3>\n
\nMoritz Schramm<\/a> (University of Southern Denmark)<\/strong>
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\nDept. of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies<\/a>, UBC Vancouver
\nNarratives Research Group, UBC Research Excellence Cluster on Migration<\/a><\/p>\n
\nEuropean Culture Research Network<\/a>\u00a0for the CES Conference 2020<\/a>\u00a0on
\nEurope\u2019s Past, Present, and Future:\u00a0<\/strong>Utopias and Dystopias.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\non Migration as Core Narrative of Plural Societies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n