Sumários

Postcolonial Hospitality and Homeland Insecurities

6 Outubro 2016, 10:00 • Susana Isabel Arsenio Nunes Costa Araujo



In the first part of the seminar we discussed an excerpt of Mireille Rosello's book, Postcolonial Hospitality, in order to examine:

-the relationship between immigration and hospitality;
-the idea of the immigrant as guest;

We also discussed:
- the context of France in the 90s and the Pasqua Laws
-the myth of French hospitality, going back to French Revolution (revolutionary hospitality)

Among other concepts we explored:
- Jean Baudrillard's idea of hospitality as cannibalism
-the economical underpinning of hospitality - House vs Hotel

In the second/final part of the seminar, we briefly discussed  the idea of Home and its geopolitical projection, the Homeland, as conveyed in Amy Kaplan's work, "Homeland Insecurities: Reflections on Language and Space"

'Of Hospitality' by Dufourmantelle and Derrida

29 Setembro 2016, 10:00 • Susana Isabel Arsenio Nunes Costa Araujo


 We reread 'Of Hospitality' by Dufourmantelle and Derrida and discussed the topics below:

-Language and the violence of translation

-Absolute hospitality; the Law and laws of hospitality

-Definition of foreigner hostis - host/enemy;

-Security and state intervention on hospitality 

-Guests, parasites, technology

-On the history of Algeria - colonial history/legacy

Introduction to the Doctoral Seminar "Fictions of Hospitality in Comparison"

22 Setembro 2016, 10:00 • Susana Isabel Arsenio Nunes Costa Araujo


We discussed the aims of the seminar, and its approach to "Hospitality" -- a comparative/cultural studies perspective.

The teaching methodologies and  the evaluation system were clarified.

We briefly addressed the following topics, which will be discussed in relation to specific texts:

a) Images of Home(s) and Home_lands

b) Hospitality and Cosmopolitanism

c) The Law (and the laws) of hospitality

d) The gender(s) of hosting: women as gifts and homosociality

e) Imperial and Colonial Legacies and post-colonial hosts

f) Political host(ages), politics and policies of hosting

g) Securing the Home: between borderlands and homelands


We examined the syllabus and calendar, taking into consideration the bibliography for each week.

The students scheduled their presentations. The roles of discussant (1 comment per student) need to be scheduled in forthcoming seminars.

Definitions of Hospitality were attempted. References to hospitality in Ancient Greece were presented as references to later debates on hospitality.
Derrida's centrality in the discussion of this topic was discussed in the context of the 70s in France and the debate about "les sans papiers."
 
Issues of pairs/doubles/binomials of Hospitality were discussed in connection to Derrida's Aporia; "the Law of hospitality and the laws of hospitality"