Writing against Borders:
Masha (Independent Researcher)
Polly Gannon (Independent Researcher, Berlin)
Abdur Rehman Khan (NYI)
Our seminar will look at the ways we experience, participate in, and refuse border regimes of various kinds, and the ways we cultivate boundaries that hold and protect us. We'll view these matters through the lenses of film, poetry and literature. Some of the issues that we'll discuss: ableism/disability, ageism, migrant justice and carceral regimes, desires and bewilderments, the human and more-than-human world, imperial expansion and the nation state, and, inevitably, war and peace.
Our agenda is emancipatory, anti-carceral, interdisciplinary, and transformative. And, finally, we endorse and embrace (we hope) a practice of compassionate listening
