First Night. September 11th. Book Night:
With Ada Kuskowsi’s new book Vernacular Law (Cambridge University Press, 2023). In conversation with Laurent Mayali (Robbins Collection, UC Berkeley Law) and Tom Johnson (York, UK). Introduction by Lindsay Stern (Harvard).
In person (HQ 276) and on Zoom: https://yale.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAsfuqprDsjHtBYpLzHl0OVLXQfvygTHuL7
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I B E R I A N N I G H T S
BOOK ONE
Literature and Survival
Thirteen evenings of conversation, Fall 2023
Iberian Connections — The Creative Forum — Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Co-sponsors:
Early Modern Studies Program – Medieval Studies Program –Department of Comparative Literature – Whitney Humanities Center
Description: This series is inspired by the spirit of Sheherazade, Dhuoda, Christine de Pizan, Teresa de Cartagena, the pequeñas mujeres rojas and so many others for whom the practice of literature –in many of its facets– was the matter of survival. They existed in circumstances of physical and sexual violence, of civil war, of racial discrimination, of isolation; they also lived in circumstances that cannot be properly expressed outside their own experiments with literature.
Our guests write from many directions, for many audiences, for many souls. Novels, reviews, the lives of afrodescendent people, dance, race, sexual violences, asylum briefs, and so many other forms of polyhedric writing that explore the limits of literature –and those of survival. They will be in conversation about their work, about their thought and, certainly, about the joys and frustrations of the literary worlds they inhabit.
Event time:
Monday, September 11, 2023 - 5:00pm
Location:
HQ 276
320 York Street
New Haven, CT
06511