Cult B: Migration Stories -- Y(ours)
Block 1
Tuesday & Thursday, 9:00-10:20 am (NY)
(4:00-5:20 pm, Kyiv/St. P)
Our seminar is an invitation to look at, and share, the ways our lives are shaped by migrations of various kinds—(en)forced, elected, imagined and imaginary, suffered through, longed for, undergone, resisted. Migration(s) can be both temporal (growing up/old), and spatial—inevitably shaped by border, and sometimes carceral, regimes. They are gendered, inflected psychologically and sexually. They carry linguistic consequences—losing languages, and finding them, in turn. Migration(s) often feature disruption as a central organizing experience. Migration(s) are accompanied by extreme affective states—anguish, fear, sometimes hope. Tears, often, of both sorrow and joy. (Rarely are migration(s) marked by affective indifference . . .) Our investigations will view our migration(s) through the lenses of film, poetry and literature, broadly conceived. As always in NYI, our point of departure will be lived, embodied experience. We are all migrants, in one way or another. This is our “Commons.” Let us get to know each other.