Call for Proposals: NeMLA Convention: 2/26-3/1/08 (Boston, MA)

[Alexandar Mihailovic]

Dear SEELANGERS:

Several of you may be interested in submitting a paper proposal to the following panel at 
the next Northeast Modern Language Association conference.  Abstracts of roughly 250 
words should be sent to me no later than September 15 (cllazm at hofstra.edu).  For more 
information about NEMLA's 2009 convention, consult the conference website:

http://www.nemla.org/convention/cfp08.html

Best,

Alex Mihailovic

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Body Traffic:  Contained Mobility and (Trans)Migrations in Cinema and Literature since 
2000

The Swiss filmmaker Ursula Biemann has characterized recent demographic shifts of 
labor as a “contained mobility,”  a situation of restrictive globalization that is 
characterized by authorities’ “disciplin[ing of] movements of goods and people” and 
passengers’ attempts to “outwit restrictions and achieve mobility and security.” Many 
literary works and films since 2000 such as Michael Haneke’s Code inconnu have focused 
on the ramifications of the demand for imported or migrant labor within certain corners 
of the global economy. The goal of this panel is to examine the ways in which post-2000 
literary and cinematic texts contemplate the dislocations of individuals from North to 
South and East to West.  What are the cultural consequences of illegal and legal body 
trafficking in the new globalized marketplace?     Do certain literary and cinematic texts 
foreground the blurring of legitimate and corrupted or openly exploitive forms of labor? 
Submissions may consider any of these questions in regard to portrayals of identities that 
are redefined or created by the restrictive or partially regulated movement of migrant 
labor.

Send abstracts of no more than 250 words to Alexandar Mihailovic (cllazm at hofstra.edu).
 

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