I also attended "Out of Place: From Exile to Flexible Citizenship" by Maria Gabriela Nouzeilles. Ms. Nouzeilles was extremely hard to understand because of her heavy accent, lack of amplification, and the fact that she was speed reading to us off of her essay. The first part of her "presentation" was about the process of becoming invisible. As an immigrant, do you stay true to your country or American-ize to decrease the level of attention you draw to yourself?
The second part was about a new type of traveler, the cosmopolitan traveler, and transmigrants who can enjoy the pleasures of flexible citizenship. Transmigrats are able to create allegiances with more than one country while cosmopolitan travelers are more of a "postmodern tourist."
She claims that visual media reinforces the idea of transnationalities. How? I couldn't understand her arguement. But she did note that exiles should pay attention to how the media portrays them because we tend to alienate ethnic minorities.
Then Ms. Nouzeilles showed two clips from a Brazilian video artist Sandra Kogut. The first was a little too experimental for me, so I didn't really get the point of "Parabolic People." The second was very interesting though, "The Hungarian Passport," which was about her struggle to claim her Jewish heritage through her Hungarian grandparents who were displaced during the war.
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