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"