Courses / Module

This interdisciplinary module engages the increasingly important area of global migration/(im)mobilities through collaboratively co-created seminars and public engagement events.
It explores the transcultural, transnational, and translingual spaces imaginatively rendered in the works of contemporary Arab writers and filmmakers who are originally from the Middle East and North Africa and migrated to Europe and North America. The aesthetically and politically influentially works (in English and translation) comprise experimental auto- and hybrid fiction, documentary and feature film. They address, among other topics, socio-political oppression, war and associated human rights violations in the Arab world, while focusing on the broader context of undocumented and forced migration, especially to Europe.
Theoretical frameworks include bio/necropolitics, trauma theory, the abject, zombie theory and hauntology, intersectional critical race theory and decoloniality, radical democracy, as well as the environmental humanities and displacement studies.