Maria Anna Robaszkiewicz’s talk on the ethical and political meanings of the migration experience in early phenomenological thought

On Friday, 27 March at 14:15, an English-language colloquium will take place at the University of Tartu Philosophicum (Jakobi 2–336), addressing common features of the migration experience and discussing their ethical and societal implications.

The talk ""Not a shelter but a field of adventure." Ethics and Politics of Early Phenomenologists’ Descriptions of Migration Experience" examines recurring features of migration from a phenomenological perspective. It shows how experiences such as estrangement, linguistic difficulty, loss of home, and social exclusion raise important ethical and political questions. The presentation will be given by Maria Anna Robaszkiewicz, postdoctoral researcher at Paderborn University.

Colloquium summary

"In this talk, I examine elements of migration experience that tend to reiterate in similar form regardless of historical context, place, and specific circumstances. I do this in a dialogue with phenomenologists, who described their experiences of migration. I refer centrally to Günter Anders‘ essay „Der Migrant“ (1962/2021), Jean Améry’s “How much home does a person need?” (1966), Hannah Arendt’s “We Refugees“ (1943), and Alfred Schütz (Schütz 1944, 1945). The elements I illuminate are unfamiliarity, language (non)communication, the loss of home, social exclusion and inclusion, or corporeal (in)visibility. My aim is to offer a descriptive account that highlights the ethical and political aspects of the migration experience as seen from a phenomenological perspective. The talk is based on the results of my work at Susimetsa Philosophicum."

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This colloquium is part of the Susimetsa Philosophicum Residency Programme, where the residents present the results of their research projects. The colloquium is organised by the Department of Philosophy and the Centre for Ethics of the University of Tartu. The colloquium is supported by the NGO Prof. Dr. Theda Rehbock's Susimetsa Philosophicum.