Cultural Transfers: Critical Intersections in African and African Diasporic Literatures
November 29, 2024 at 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
| Location: | SP201D St. Patrick's Building |
| Cost: | Free |
| Audience: | Alumni, Carleton Community, Current Students, Faculty, Staff and Faculty |
Join the Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis (CTCA) and the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture (ICSLAC) for our first Cultural Transfers workshop of the 2024-2025 academic calendar year. The theme for this workshop is Critical Intersections in African and African Diasporic Literatures with presentations from Chichi Ayalogu (ICSLAC) and Dr. Sarah Brouillette (English). Each presentation will be 20-minutes in length, followed by a dialogue and Q&A moderated by Dr. Christine Duff (African Studies/French).
“Memory and Mobility: The Aesthetics of Diasporic Witnessing in Teju Cole’s Open City and Everyday is for the Thief“ Chichi Ayalogu, Cultural Mediations PhD student
“The Colonial History of African Literature” Dr. Sarah Brouillette, Department of English Language and Literature
Cultural Transfers is an ongoing workshop series organized as a collaboration between the CTCA and ICSLAC where upper year Cultural Mediations PhD students share their research in dialogue with faculty research.The series has been on a hiatus since 2019 and we are delighted to announce its return in 2024-2025.