Connecting Cultures

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Notes

Peter Huk's paper was part of a panel that debated issues of terrorism, Páraic Finnerty and Robert Duggan's paper ‘The Crying Game or Representing and Reading the ‘Terrorist’ which examined ‘cinematic representations of the terrorist as a liminal figure who connects cultures’ and who is consistently labelled as a terrorist by his or her ideological opponent. Julian Preece's paper ‘Reinscribing the German Autumn: Heinrich Breloer's “Death Game”’ considered two contrasting and contradictory accounts of the ‘Federal Republic's least stable hour’.

Papers also considered with John Corbin's were ‘Dancing at the Border: Secrecy and Revelations’ by Eleni Myrivili which considered national ‘(in)security’ at border zones and how border subjects bear the burden of their violent past. Myrivili explored the potential for a renegotiation of this past in terms of secrecy and dance. Roger Just's paper ‘Being A Spartokhoriot: the global in the local’ debated the situation of the inhabitants of Spartokhori on the Ionian island of Maganisi who find themselves as Spartokhoriots, in a continual series of self-defining oppositions between themselves and members of Meganisi's other two villages, and also between themselves and Greek in-comers and non-Greeks.

Homi K Bhabha, Location of Cultures, London: Routledge, 1994, p 1.

Ibid, p 18.

Howard Booth, ‘Claude McKay in Britain: class, race and sexuality’, presented at the ‘Connecting cultures’ conference, University of Kent, Canterbury, April 2003.

Angela Brüning, ‘Black Metropoles: Anglophone and Francophone Caribbeans in mid-twentieth century London and Paris’, presented at the ‘Connecting cultures’ conference, University of Kent, Canterbury, April 2003.

Maria-Sabina Drago Alexandru, ‘Salman Rushdie's cities: urban settings for identity performance’, presented at the ‘Connecting cultures’ conference, University of Kent, Canterbury, April 2003.

Alexandra Clarke, ‘Views from Menschenland: Güney Dal, a Turkish author in Germany’, presented at the ‘Connecting cultures’ conference, University of Kent, Canterbury, April 2003.