Memory, Intimacy, and Difficult Knowledge

Social Justice Institute (SJI)

A Dialogue between Noo Saro-Wiwa and  Dr. Juliane Okot Bitek:

Case Room at the Liu Institute for Global Issues

Please join us for a conversation between Noo Saro-Wiwa, award-winning travel writer, and Juliane Otoniya Okot Bitek, award-winning Poet. The dialogue will incorporate the two authors' readings and reflections, grounded in their own experiences. Noo is writing a book about her travels around the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. This area is her native homeland and the source of childhood memories, but it is also a place of environmental degradation, violence and political instability. Juliane has been thinking and writing about homeland as well. In her work, she thinks about poetry as a space for reflection, truth telling and a possible future beyond the trauma of mass violence and war. Different from Afrofuturism, or even Africanfuturism, poetry in song remembers and is the practice of a deep tradition where art is the ultimate expression of a people.This public event makes up one of a series of conversations being held this year as part of the Memory and Justice Research Stream Speaker's Series, and will be the conclusion of a course at UBC entitled, “Difficult Knowledge: Ethics and Praxis of Research in Challenging Settings.” Note that their dialogue will take place from 3-5pm, with a reception to follow. Please RSVP to help us plan the seating accordingly. All are welcome and encouraged to attend!

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