Humber Liberal Arts Conference
Displacement and Diaspora: Polarization and the Perils of Displacement
Humber Liberal Arts Conference
Displacement and Diaspora: Polarization and the Perils of Displacement
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90 minsThis panel will take three distinct approaches to examine the intersection of nationalist mythmaking, imperialism and violence. Moving between the United States, India, and Pakistan, one presentation will look at the polarization of American culture, exploring the role of American mythmaking in creating a shared culture, values and imagination, and how that myth of unity has been fractured through time and the links that this fracturing has to violence and imperialism. Another will use film to analyze and build an understanding of the partitioning of the south Asian subcontinent into India and Pakistan and the spread of communal violence and rioting that followed. Finally, a close reading of Hari Kunzru’s novel Transmission (2004) will be used as springboard to discuss the use of violence in response to global forms of capitalism and the creation of “unintentional terrorists.”
This event is part of the annual interdisciplinary Humber Liberal Arts Conference.
Presenters:
Pier Paolo Piciucco (Department of Foreign Languages, University of Turin)
Erik Mortensen (Humber College)
Meera Shirodkar (Bennett University, Greater Noida)
This panel will take three distinct approaches to examine the intersection of nationalist mythmaking, imperialism and violence. Moving between the United States, India, and Pakistan, one presentation will look at the polarization of American culture, exploring the role of American mythmaking in creating a shared culture, values and imagination, and how that myth of unity has been fractured through time and the links that this fracturing has to violence and imperialism. Another will use film to analyze and build an understanding of the partitioning of the south Asian subcontinent into India and Pakistan and the spread of communal violence and rioting that followed. Finally, a close reading of Hari Kunzru’s novel Transmission (2004) will be used as springboard to discuss the use of violence in response to global forms of capitalism and the creation of “unintentional terrorists.”
This event is part of the annual interdisciplinary Humber Liberal Arts Conference.
Presenters:
Pier Paolo Piciucco (Department of Foreign Languages, University of Turin)
Erik Mortensen (Humber College)
Meera Shirodkar (Bennett University, Greater Noida)
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