Jiwon Ahn, Keene State College
Sumita Chakravarty, The New School
Mark Williams, Dartmouth College
Friday, Nov. 6, at 2 p.m. Harry Davis Room, Redfern Arts Center
To live in the modern world, as Georg Simmel famously observed, is to live among strangers. Today, the stranger may be economic migrant, asylum seeker, trader, tourist, or terrorist. This panel focuses on the role of contemporary world cinema in documenting the intensifying traffic of people across borders. What causes people to emigrate? What are their experiences? What are our responsibilities toward the strangers who live among us? Should we recognize that, as Julia Kristeva has suggested, the stranger is within us? Come explore such questions through consideration of films by such directors as Atom Egoyan, Michael Winterbottom, Fatih Akin, Danny Boyle, and David Lynch.
How is KSC tied to events on the local, national, and global scale? Check out this wall-sized poster
that will be on display in the Student Center Atrium throughout the Symposium to find out.
New Hampshire Humanities Council
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