The IMISCOE Standing Committee on Families, Welfare, Care and the Life Course (FamWeLC) is hosting a webinar to mark the launch of the graphic novel, Exile & Beyond, by Gaspard Njock and Félicien de Heusch.
Presenters: Gaspard Njock (Sorbonne University) and Félicien de Heusch (University of Copenhagen).
Discussant: Alexandra Délano Alonso (New School, New York)
Date and time: Thursday 11th December, 14:00-15:30 Central European Time
Venue: via Zoom (see link below)
To attend, you must register in advance.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
About the book
Exile & Beyond was born from the encounter of two enthusiasts of both art and research, Gaspard Njock (Sorbonne University) and Félicien de Heusch (University of Copenhagen). This work delicately combines graphic poetry, field investigation, and a socio-anthropological approach to explore one of the most poignant realities of our time: deaths in migration. Unique in its form, this project creates a dialogue between drawing and research, giving voice and presence to those whom exile renders invisible.
“This graphic novel follows the thread of the double death of migrants. These travellers, who are born twice (the first time when their departure makes them emigrants, the second time when their insertion in the place of arrival makes them immigrants), die twice. Their first death is mourned by their relatives in Europe, while the second is celebrated by ancestral rites that reintegrate them into the land of their ancestors. Death is not simply the end of life. It opens up a space in which links between the living can be rebuilt across and beyond borders. Death is a ferment of social life, at the heart of what constitutes the community of the living.”
Excerpt from the preface, by Judith Misrahi-Barak and Thomas Lacroix