Spring 2021
A conversation with Luis Alberto Urrea
Prof. Mina Karavanta, Refusing to Sink
An inflatable boat with Syrian Refugees just arrived safely to Skala Sykamias, Lesvos island, Greece.
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Prof. Karavanta’s presentation examines contemporary representations and ideas of community and the human, grounded in the scene of the human disaster on the Mediterranean shores. This scene, she suggests, reveals a new chapter of European exceptionalism while at the same time staging the possibility of new communities to come: “communities of belonging on behalf of vulnerable strangers.”
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2019-2020
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Home and the Human is supported by the Martha A. Mitten Endowment in the College of Liberal Arts at Towson University