BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.6.1//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news733@english.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260921T162630 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261112T141500 SUMMARY:Home\, Homeland\, and Confinement: Lockdown Domesticity in Sarah Mo ss’ «The Fell» DESCRIPTION:Home is commonly associated with comfort\, safety\, and belongi ng\, but it is not a self-evident or universally accessible space. The COV ID-19 lockdowns brought such ambivalences of domestic space into sharp rel ief\, prompting a re-evaluation of overly affirmative notions of home and finding literary expression in recent fictions of lockdown. Framed by inte rdisciplinary research on home as a site of intersectional power relations \, the guest lecture will use Sarah Moss’ 2021 novel The Fell as a case study for lockdown fiction’s critical assessment of a politics of home a nd the exclusions and pressures that come with making a home.\\r\\nThe lec ture will show how Moss works through the individual and communal conseque nces of the COVID-19 lockdowns in Britain by attending to the small practi ces that structure the four protagonists’ relations to their homes\, bel ongings\, and one another. These practices are far from banal. Rather\, th ey reveal dwelling spaces as both the result and expression of concrete\, socially situated relations between people\, objects\, institutions\, and environments\, all of which are embedded in uneven geometries of power. In guided close readings\, the lecture will explore how the literary represe ntation of lockdown domesticity maps onto wider questions of home and home land\, belonging\, and exclusion. Ideas of “being at home” may imply n ational\, ethnic\, cultural\, or familial boundaries that distinguish thos e who belong from those who are rendered outsiders\, e.g. in migration dis courses. At the same time\, the injunction to stay at home exposes the pot ential violence of domestic space: for those experiencing coercion or dome stic abuse\, home may become a site of surveillance\, isolation\, and impr isonment. Moss’ novel thus illuminates a politics of banality in which h ome is simultaneously shelter and confinement\, intimate space and contest ed territory\, “ours” and never simply ours. X-ALT-DESC:

Home is commonly associated with comfort\, safety\, and belon ging\, but it is not a self-evident or universally accessible space. The C OVID-19 lockdowns brought such ambivalences of domestic space into sharp r elief\, prompting a re-evaluation of overly affirmative notions of home an d finding literary expression in recent fictions of lockdown. Framed by in terdisciplinary research on home as a site of intersectional power relatio ns\, the guest lecture will use Sarah Moss’ 2021 novel The Fell a s a case study for lockdown fiction’s critical assessment of a politics of home and the exclusions and pressures that come with making a home.

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The lecture will show how Moss works through the individual and commu nal consequences of the COVID-19 lockdowns in Britain by attending to the small practices that structure the four protagonists’ relations to their homes\, belongings\, and one another. These practices are far from banal. Rather\, they reveal dwelling spaces as both the result and expression of concrete\, socially situated relations between people\, objects\, institu tions\, and environments\, all of which are embedded in uneven geometries of power. In guided close readings\, the lecture will explore how the lite rary representation of lockdown domesticity maps onto wider questions of h ome and homeland\, belonging\, and exclusion. Ideas of “being at home” may imply national\, ethnic\, cultural\, or familial boundaries that dist inguish those who belong from those who are rendered outsiders\, e.g. in m igration discourses. At the same time\, the injunction to stay at home exp oses the potential violence of domestic space: for those experiencing coer cion or domestic abuse\, home may become a site of surveillance\, isolatio n\, and imprisonment. Moss’ novel thus illuminates a politics of banalit y in which home is simultaneously shelter and confinement\, intimate space and contested territory\, “ours” and never simply ours.

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