Dienstag, 02.12.2025
Against Expulsion
17:15 - 18:45 Uhr
HS 3 GEIWI-Turm, Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck
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David Herd
David Herd is a poet, critic and co-organiser of the project Refugee Tales. His critical history, Writing Against Expulsion was shortlisted for the 2024 MSA Book Prize and is now out in paperback with OUP. His most recent collection of poetry, Walk Song (2022), was a Book of the Year in the Australian Review of Books. In collaboration with Anna Pincus and colleagues at Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group, David has co-organised the project Refugee Tales since 2014. He teaches at the University of St
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David Herd’s talk will consider the shift in UK asylum policy over the past ten years from a ‘hostile environment’ to an ‘expulsive environment’. It will argue that in the process of this shift we are losing the language of human rights and with it an understanding of the stories to which such language has sought to speak. In the face of such a ‘language heist’, as Arundhati Roy would call it, we have to confront expulsion wherever we encounter it, to prevent the displacement that comes of an abandoning of human rights.
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Forschungsschwerpunkt "Kulturelle Begegnungen - Kulturelle Konflikte"
ao. Univ. Prof. Dr. Helga Ramsey-Kurz, Institut für Anglistik
+43 512 507 41409
Helga.Ramsey-Kurz@uibk.ac.at