Video of lecture by Françoise Lionnet in which shares perspectives on recent artistic and literary works inspired by migrant crises in both the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean sea and focus more specifically on the Comoros archipelago and the island of Mayotte, that "ultra peripheral" region of "Europe," she considers the multilingual work of poet and dramatist Soeuf Elbadawi to test the critical ... read moreeffectiveness of literature in the world as agent of cultural change. This lecture was presented as part of the Mellon Sawyer Seminar in Comparative Global Humanities.read less
