Book Launch: Migrants Shaping Europe, Past and Present: Multilingual Literature, Arts, and Cultures

This collective volume, co-edited by Helen Solterer and Vincent Joos, investigates Calais, notorious today as one choke point for so-called migrants.  It changes what we know of Calais by considering peoples rarely identified in this way: the nameless during the early modern Hundred Year’s War; and during World War One.  It places Calais side by side with other borderlands in Spain/Morocco and Lampedusa/Sicily/Somalia – all part of a new, comparative cultural history of migration that explores the significant areas where Romance languages –among others -- are spoken around the European continent.

A round-table launching the book, supported by French Cultural Services, will take place on November 16, 5:30-7 pm EST, Carpenter Room, Bostock Library.