FelixArchief Antwerpen, 9-12/06/2010
The aim of this conference is to bring together new insights and methodologies from migration and maritime history, translation studies and literary studies, and confront them with the rich but largely underexplored archive of transatlantic migrant narratives. In view of the opening of the Red Star Line Museum in Antwerp, Tales of Transit takes the city as its starting point to rethink transatlantic migration. We encourage contributions offering comparative perspectives on migrants traveling through ports in Europe, Africa and the Americas from the 1830s onwards. The year 1954, when the Ellis Island Immigration Station closed, was selected as an appropriate terminus ad quem indicating the transition from steamers to planes as the dominant mode of transatlantic transportation. One or more of the following subtopics may form the basis of paper proposals: language and translation, migration as business, iconography of migration, archiving testimonies.
For more detailed information on the conference please visit the conference website: www.talesoftransit.be
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