Travelling Texts and Translated Men
Nothing can be one-size-fits-all; everyone is just too different. Despite this, some things can benefit all of us in different ways. Enter Travelling Texts and Translated Men: Postcolonialism and Migration Across Disciplines, AUP's day-long seminar on the issue of migration from a myriad of viewpoints. Taking place this Saturday, October 15th, in Combes 104, the seminar aims to bring together students and faculty alike.
Migration could become the defining issue of the 21st century. Certainly, this is the first time in its history that the European Union has faced a mass influx of refugees from outside the region. "The seminar brings together multiple perspectives on the question," said Professor Sneharika Roy, from AUP's Comparative Literature Department. "It's really exciting for us to have people from Global Communications exploring the impact of migration on the media, people from Politics exploring the political impact of migration, and, elsewhere, seeing how the question finds expression through literature and art. So it's really like this multifaceted approach to migration in one day."
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Thinking about migration not only as the movement of people but also as the movement of cultures, languages and forms of knowledge, Dr Roy hopes that students will seize the opportunity to listen and participate in this topical discussion. "The seminar provides a space outside the classroom where students can get to know what professors do when they don't teach and can get to the researcher that is behind every teacher," she says. Joining the dots between disciplines on the subject of migration, Dr Roy organized the seminar because "Our day and age is a day and age of migration and we need everybody's area of specialty."
Travelling Texts and Translated Men: Postcolonialism and Migration Across Disciplines, Saturday 15th October, Combes 104, from 9am onwards. This seminar is part of the 'Politics of Translation' lecture series organized by the Center for Writers and Translators (Comparative and English Literature Department).
