Caroline Rabourdin has been selected to present at the 23rd International Symposium in Phenomenology on the theme 'L’Epreuve de l’étranger: traduction, migration, résistance' which will take place in Perugia, Italy, 7-13th July 2019. 

For this intervention Caroline will interrogate the political framework of the bilingual speaking subject through a close reading of Lisa Roberton’s essay "Threshold: A Prosody of Citizenship” and Jacques Derrida’s seminars on hospitality (in Anne Dufourmantelle invite Jacques Derrida à répondre de l’hospitalité, 1997). Her paper will be bilingual French/English and will focus on language as a relational and political activity, the laws of language, and the consequences of the removal of the bilingual subject’s rights.

Discourse improvises, unmoored to any stable geographic or architectural foundation. We citizens constitute ourselves according to the movement of subjectivity in language. At the same time, we are administratively identified by shared, conventional borders, and a historical concept of collective and individual rights or those rights’ withdrawal. (Lisa Robertson, "Threshold: A Prosody of Citizneship", Dialecty series, Book Works, 2018)

Emily Apter (The Translation Zone, 2005) will be the keynote speaker and participants can still apply to attend. For more information visit the symposium’s webpage