The independent scholar investigates the ways in which migration is portrayed in contemporary European cinema.

During the last three decades, Europe has undergone numerous periods of economic and political instability. The process of European integration, once hailed as a beacon of peaceful cooperation, appears to be stagnating, instead giving rise to notoriously more frequent manifestations of xenophobic violence, nationalism, and right-wing fundamentalism. Kamil Zapasnik’s new book, Reframing the European Other, examines how ongoing debates about European identity have impacted the portrayal of migrants in contemporary French and German cinema.

He will discuss the work of some of Europe’s most prolific contemporary filmmakers and how their films both reflect and respond to crucial historic events in Europe over the last 30 years.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Kamil Zapasnik was awarded his PhD in Film Studies from Birkbeck, University of London in 2014. After completing his degree, he moved to Berlin where he worked in the media industry for almost a decade, overseeing content strategy and acquisitions for numerous television channels across Europe. In 2022, he relocated to New York City and returned to academia full-time. Kamil spent much of 2022 and 2023 at The New York Public library, working on his first book, Reframing the European Other, which was published by Peter Lang at the beginning of 2024. Kamil teaches part-time at Drew University in New Jersey.

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