[eccr] Call for Papers/Fortress Europe

>Fortress Europe and Its "Others": Cultural Representations in Film, Media 
>and the Arts
>
>4-6 April 2005
>
>Institute of Romance Studies
>
>School of Advanced Study
>
>University of London
>
>Call for Papers
>
>The historical and mythical layers embedded in Western European attitudes 
>towards the "other" and the "stranger" are currently being reinforced by 
>growing resistance to the flow of migrants and refugees from non-European 
>and Eastern European countries, as well as to Pan-European trends towards 
>unification of the continent.  This resistance has been expressed most 
>vocally by the "far-Right" populist parties and movements, but also in 
>more restrictive immigration and refugee laws throughout the liberal 
>democracies of Western Europe. Contemporary Europe's new "others" are 
>immigrants and refugees from poor countries particularly from Africa and 
>Asia.
>
>Although Europe, as a geopolitical entity and as an ideological concept, 
>has itself rested on an historical process of absorbing, hybridizing, and 
>assimilating different people from diverse ethnic and national groups, 
>European countries have tended to view migration as challenging and 
>threatening their territory, identity and ways of imagining themselves and 
>others.
>
>The aim of the conference is to explore how the public debate about 
>Fortress Europe has been negotiated in the cultural and aesthetic spheres 
>within a wide range of representational forms, from the media to film, 
>photography, literature, theatre, and the arts. Its aim is also to assess 
>the impact that such representations may have on public opinion with 
>regard to the issues surrounding immigration and asylum.  We are also 
>interested in contributions from and on Europe's "Others"' themselves, 
>particularly on their own perceptions, imaginations, and fantasies of 
>Fortress Europe.
>
>Proposals for twenty minute papers, should be submitted in the form of a 
>200 word abstract by 30 June 2004 to Yosefa Loshitzky 
>(yosefal /at/ blueyonder.co.uk) 
><<mailto:(yosefal /at/ blueyonder.co.uk)>mailto:(yosefal /at/ blueyonder.co.uk)>.  Early 
>submissions are welcome.  We plan to publish selected essays in a refereed 
>monograph.
>

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