Unsettling Hospitality Talk - "Guests without Hosts: Hopes for Inhospitable Hospitalities in the Digital Age"

A group of us are collaborating on a Rehm Library Workshop and Lecture Series titled "Unsettling Hospitality: Pedagogy and Praxis at the Threshold,” and we invite you to participate in the events. Each of us (Isabelle Jenkins, Tim Joseph, Frances Maughan-Brown, Chris Staysniak, and Hayley Stefan) is coming at the matter of hospitality from different disciplinary directions, and we hope you'll be able to join us in this work.

Our vision is for a sustained reckoning and wrestling with the concepts of hospitality, home, and welcome at a time when our institutions — of higher education, governments, and international agencies — are turning further toward violent exclusion. The series commenced with a day-long symposium on Friday, September 26th, and we are following this opening event with a speaker series over the course of the academic year, bringing in colleagues from multiple institutions and disciplines, continuing to question what hospitality means, assumes, or challenges.

Our second speaker is Holy Cross professor Jennie Germann Molz. Her talk, "Guests without Hosts: Hopes for Inhospitable Hospitalities in the Digital Age" will be at 6:30m in the Rehm Library on Thursday, February 19th. Prof. Germann Molz offers the attached reading as helpful background for her lecture.

All are welcome!

This series is made possible through funding from the Library / Faculty Working Groups and Visiting Speaker Series‬ program.

Please feel free to reach out to any of us with questions, and please contact Prof. Hayley Stefan (hstefan@holycross.edu) to request an ASL interpreter or other reasonable accommodations.

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