LLC11: Perspectives on Europe from the Periphery

Collaborative Goals

Our group aims to subvert a centripetal reading of European cultural production by including peripheral thinkers, writers, and visual artists operating in transcultural contexts.

Following the publication of our forthcoming volume "Spatiality at the Periphery in European Literatures and Visual Arts" (Palgrave Macmillan, publication date: August 17, 2023), we want to invite a writer or speaker of international acclaim whose work focuses on borders and/as contact zones for an event in fall 2023. We want to host the guest speaker and all working group members here at Syracuse University and create a public event with a high impact, drawing attention to questions posed by borders inside and at the peripheries of Europe. Simultaneously, we aim to disseminate our work, the new book, and begin a new chapter of the working group. For this we plan a closed working group meeting in spring 2024.