[Commlist] CfP - On the Move & Moving On. (Re-)negotiations of Migration in Contemporary Literature and Film

*INSTITUTE OF MODERN LANGUAGES RESEARCH*

*School of Advanced Study • University of London*

*On the Move & Moving On. (Re-)negotiations of Migration in Contemporary 
Literature and Film*

**

*A PGR and ECR conference to be held at the Institute of Modern 
Languages Research (IMLR), University of London, on 13 January 2023.*
*Organisers: Vivian Jochens (IMLR) and Franziska Wolf (University of 
Birmingham/Oxford)*

/*Call for Contributions - deadline 30 September 2022*///

/*Conference: 13 January 2023*/

Migration is one of the most widely discussed cultural, socio-political, 
and economic questions of our time. Whether internal or across borders, 
voluntary or forced, migration movements are influenced by a variety of 
factors that are rooted in regional and national, local and global 
interrelations. In contemporary discussions of migration, Europe’s 
diverse migration history and its entanglement with colonialism, 
(forced) labour, war and conflict are sometimes overlooked.

The crossing of nation-state and linguistic borders challenges stable 
notions of individual and collective identity and opens up debates about 
notions of belonging beyond established markers like nationality, 
ethnicity, and language. While writers, thinkers, and film-makers alike 
have used the theme of migration to explore alternative, potentially 
fluid ways of identifications, the political reality confronts us with a 
surge of cultural conservatism, right-wing populism, and an increase in 
racist violence.

Focusing on the European context, this conference aims to explore how 
contemporary writers and film-makers contribute to the (re-)negotiation 
of migration as a cultural, socio-political, and economic matter, 
thereby addressing the following questions:

  * How are migration experiences remembered, represented, problematised
    or celebrated?
  * What role do class, gender, ethnicity, religion, language, and
    nationality play in these migrant experiences?
  * What concepts frame the experience and narration of migration -
    integration, assimilation, exile, belonging?

Contributions might address the issues above but are certainly not 
limited to these.
We are particularly interested in the artistic (re-)negotiation of 
migration:

  * How do writers, artists, and other actors involved in cultural
    production negotiate the paradigmatic shift associated with
    increasing societal diversity?
  * How do they contribute to this shift by moving away from established
    notions of belonging in their writing, film or theatre making?
  * What comparisons can be drawn between literary and cinematic
    production across languages and cultures?
  * How does contemporary artistic practice challenge established
    analytical approaches and categories?

And the academic discussion of these artistic practices:

  * Which terminologies are being used to describe and categorise
    artistic interventions and how do notions of diaspora,
    transnationality, interculturality, postmigration, and others relate
    to one another?
  * What are the implications of the different terminologies used when
    referring to migration and what concepts of European literature(s)
    and culture(s) are implied by these terms?
We warmly invite PGR students and ECRs from various academic disciplines 
to submit an abstract of no more than *300 words for a paper of 20 
minutes’ length* along with their contact details and a brief 
biographical note of no more than *50 words* to 
*(vivian.jochens /at/ postgrad.sas.ac.uk)* 
<mailto:(vivian.jochens /at/ postgrad.sas.ac.uk)> and 
*(fxw867 /at/ student.bham.ac.uk)* <mailto:(fxw867 /at/ student.bham.ac.uk)> by *30 
September 2022*.

https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/call-papers-move-moving-re-negotiations-migration-contemporary-literature-and-film 

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