Siraj Izhar, Author at Public Seminar

Migration

Corpus Nullius: How Europe Recast the Migrant Body

Narratives of the migrant-refugee crisis reflect the interests they serve

May 23, 2019 • by Siraj Izhar

After a record number of refugees arrived in Europe in 2015 following the Syrian collapse, Europe’s reaction provided the conditions for an even more fundamental change. As the fences went up at each boundary within a previously borderless Schengen Europe -- almost as an act of self-reproach following Angela Merkel’s acceptance ...

Corpus Nullius: How Europe Recast the Migrant Body

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terra nullius, Jules Ferry Calais

Readings and Exhibits to mark the First Anniversary of the Destruction of the Jungle

November 1, 2017 • by Siraj Izhar

There are spaces outside memory that belong to no-one or to nature, and there are places cast out of memory and returned to nature or to no-one. Across them there is an order, an order that brings together in time the ground, the territory, the space, the place, the land, ...

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Recovering Community: Part II

Remembering the Jungle at Jules Ferry

May 26, 2017 • by Siraj Izhar

In its time at Jules Ferry, the Jungle crossed a threshold in the nature of its transgression as a political subject. This transgression was its establishment of community. What the Jungle came to embody in political form was a common project; common, that is, in two senses of the word. ...

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Recovering Community: Part I

Remembering the Jungle at Jules Ferry

May 23, 2017 • by Siraj Izhar

We know the scene; there is a gathering, and someone is telling a story. We do not yet know whether these people gathered together form an assembly, if they are a horde or a tribe. But we call them brothers and sisters because they are gathered together and because they ...