Liminal Situations

01.07.2025

The Other Side of Hope (Toivon tuolla puolen, 2017).

Today I’ll present a paper co-authored by Teodora Jovanović (from the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts) and Daniel Škobla (from the Slovak Academy of Science) at the COREnet and 38th Biennial ISSR Conference “Religion, Migration, and Conflicts in Polarized Societies,” taking palce at Vytautas Magnus University in Lithuania. “Liminal Situations: Aki Kaurismäki’s Cinematic Narratives of Refugees in Europe” will be presented in the panel “Return of Religion? Migrations And Public Discourses Around Europe,” chaired by Miroslav Tížik and Anne Lancien. It’ll be availabe as a chapter of the upcoming book Religious and Non-Religious Narratives on Migration: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Regina Polak, Ansgar Jödicke, and Aybiçe Tosun.