Event overview
A free postgraduate symposium taking place in the afternoon. All are welcome.
At the close of the twentieth century, feminists such as Audre Lorde, Susan Stanford Friedman and Sara Ahmed urged women to look beyond their local and national communities. Since 2000, contemporary women’s writing has sought inspiration from the idea of an increasingly global community. Women from a variety of locations have produced a number of works that engage with transnational and global relationships, including Bernardine Evaristo, Aminatta Forna, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Isabel Allende, Ahdaf Soueif, Radwa Ashour, Suniti Namjoshi, Leila Ahmed and Doris Lessing, amongst many others. This half-day symposium seeks to both address and celebrate the global outlook of contemporary women’s writing.
The symposium shall be presenting papers on a diverse range of subjects from postgraduate researchers, whilst the event shall close with a very special reading from Bernardine Evaristo, award winning writer and editor of fiction and verse (including Blonde Roots, Lara, Soul Tourists and The Emperor’s Babe).
Attendance is free and open to all (all levels of students, members of the public etc.): if you would like to attend, please email women@pgcwwn.org with your name.
We look forward to welcoming you on Thursday.
PG CWWN Steering Group
More information at the PG CWWN website
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 26 Apr 2012 | 2:00pm - 7:00pm |
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