{"id":3342,"date":"2015-01-01T22:27:02","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T22:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/?p=3342"},"modified":"2018-10-06T22:31:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T22:31:32","slug":"2015-2016-seminar-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rifkindcenter.ccny.cuny.edu\/?p=3342","title":{"rendered":"2015-2016 SEMINAR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>THEME: Migrations\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Millions of people today live outside the nations of their birth. Whether because of war and conflict and their aftermath or because of economic or political duress, migration has remade the demographic, social, economic, political and cultural landscapes of many societies around the world. The Rifkind seminar sought to interrogate experiences of migration, deportation, exile \u2013 and their aftermaths \u2013 through multiple disciplinary lenses. Participants focuses on, for example: representations of the migration experience in memoir and fiction; studies of how and when new migrants are incorporated into existent societies or create new ones; or of current approaches to immigration, citizenship and societal membership, including debates over \u201cmulti-culturalism\u201d and \u201cpluralism.\u201d Some focused on a specific geographical or temporal context or on more general questions of philosophy or policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Readings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Seyla Ben Habib and Judith Resnick,\u00a0<em>Migrations and Mobilities.\u00a0<\/em>NYU Press, 2009<\/li><li>Selya Benhabib,\u00a0<em>The rights of others: aliens, residents, and citizens.<\/em>\u00a0Cambridge University Press, 2004<\/li><li>Tara Zahra,\u00a0<em>The Lost Children.\u00a0<\/em>Harvard University Press, 2011<\/li><li>Akram Khater,\u00a0<em>Inventing Home: Emigration, Gender and Middle Class in Lebanon.\u00a0<\/em>University of California Press, Berkeley, 2001<\/li><li>Thomas Naill,\u00a0<em>The Figure of the Migrant<\/em>. Stanford University Press, 2015<\/li><li>Hannah Arendt, \u201cWe Refugees.\u201d\u00a0<em>Menorah, 1943<\/em><\/li><li>Hsiao-Hung Pai<strong>,\u00a0<\/strong><em>Scattered Sand: The Story of China\u2019s Rural Migrants<\/em>. Verso, 2013<\/li><li>Woodward and J.P. Jones, III. 2005. \u201cOn the Border with Deleuze and Guattari,\u201d In\u00a0<em>B\/ordering Space<\/em>, H. van Houtum, O.<\/li><li>Kramsch, and W. Zierhofer, eds. Hampshire: Ashgate, pp. 233-48.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Guest Speakers<\/strong><br\/>Timothy Snyder, Yale University<br\/>Tara Zahra, University of Chicago<br\/>Akram Khater, North Carolina State<br\/>Jennifer Yusin, Drexel College<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Participant List<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Beth Baron,<\/strong>\u00a0Professor of History<\/li><li><strong>Chad Kidd,\u00a0<\/strong>Assistant Professor of Philosophy<\/li><li><strong>Daniel Gustafson,\u00a0<\/strong>Assistant Professor of English<\/li><li><strong>Elazar Elhanan,<\/strong>\u00a0Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies<\/li><li><strong>Elizabeth Mazzola,\u00a0<\/strong>Professor of English<\/li><li><strong>Ellen Handy,\u00a0<\/strong>Professor of Art<\/li><li><strong>Katherine Ritchie,\u00a0<\/strong>Assistant Professor of Philosophy<\/li><li><strong>Michelle Y. Valladares,\u00a0<\/strong>Lecturer in Poetry, English<\/li><li><strong>Mikhal Dekel,\u00a0<\/strong>Professor of English, Seminar Leader<\/li><li><strong>Robert Higney,\u00a0<\/strong>Assistant Professor of English<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THEME: Migrations\u00a0 Millions of people today live outside the nations of their birth. Whether because of war and conflict and their aftermath or because of economic or political duress, migration has remade the demographic, social, economic, political and cultural landscapes of many societies around the world. 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