Peter Schneck (American Studies, University of Osnabrück) and Laura Zander (Law, Collaborative Research Center "Law and Literature," University of Münster)
Paradoxical Mobilities: The Precarious Subject on the Move in Law and Literature
Abstract: A painful tension between an ideal, global and universal claim of human rights and the geographically and personally limited legal reality, applicability, and enforceability of human rights constitutes the precarious subject ‘on the move’ and renders its mobility paradoxical. This talk explores migrancy fictions as they negotiate the contradictions and conflicts inherent in the legal formation of “the migrant.” It reflects on the way in which literary forms and narrative modes may present and suggest alternative visions of migrant subjectivity and agency.
April 19, 2023, 12:30-1:45 EDT, Heritage Room, Babbidge Library, Level 4
Lunch buffet will be provided.
Organized by the Connecticut/Baden-Württemberg Human Rights Research Consortium and co-sponsored by American Studies, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Department of Literatures, Cultures & Languages, and the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute.
For more information, contact: Florian White at florian.white@uconn.edu