States of Refuge: A Conference in Recognition of Professor Ken Harrow & a Tribute to the English Graduate Program

States of Refuge: A Conference in Recognition of Professor Ken Harrow & a Tribute to the English Graduate Program

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When:
April 20, 2018 @ 9:00 am – 5:30 pm
2018-04-20T09:00:00-04:00
2018-04-20T17:30:00-04:00
Where:
International Center, Rooms 302-303
International Center
427 N Shaw Ln, East Lansing, MI 48824
USA
Cost:
Free
African American and African Studies All English Film Studies Global Studies in the Arts & Humanities Muslim Studies Romance and Classical Studies
States of Refuge: A Conference in Recognition of Professor Ken Harrow & a Tribute to the English Graduate Program @ International Center, Rooms 302-303 | East Lansing | Michigan | United States

One of the defining and intractable issues in contemporary literature of the Global South, African, South Asian, and Postcolonial in general, is dislocated people seeking refuge across national boundaries. This Symposium is a reflection on the different states and cycles of displacement, assimilation, and return, and of the disruptions and transformations of State institutions and structures that mediate these transitions in politics and culture.