15 Jan 2021 5:00pm - 7:00pm ONLINE (17:00 UK Time)

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This is an online event hosted via Zoom. Registration is now closed.
Time: 17:00 GMT, 12:00PM EST, 19:00 EET


Literature as Archive I: Reading and Conversation with Isabella Hammad, Amir Ahmadi and Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

 
Speakers

Isabella Hammad (Writer)

Isabella Hammad was born in London and lives between London and New York. Her first novel The Parisian won a 2019 Palestine Book Award and will be translated into fifteen languages. She was awarded the 2020 Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Betty Trask Award, and the 2018 Plimpton Prize for Fiction, and she was a 2019 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree.

 

Amir Ahmadi Arian (Writer, University of Queensland and NYU)

Amir Ahmadi Arian started his writing career as a journalist in Iran. He has published two novels, a collection of stories, and a book of nonfiction in Persian. He also translated from English to Persian novels by E L Doctorow, Paul Auster, P D James, and Cormac McCarthy. Since 2013, he has been writing and publishing exclusively in English. In recent years, his work has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, LRB, and Lithub. He holds a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Queensland, Australia, and an MFA in creative writing from NYU. He currently teaches literature and creative writing at City College, New York.

 

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi (Director of the MFA Creative Writing Program at Notre Dame, Fellow of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies)

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi is the author of Call Me Zebra, winner of the 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award, the John Gardner Fiction Award and longlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award. She is a National Book Foundation '5 Under 35' honoree and a Whiting Writers Award Winner. Her novel, Savage Tongues, is forthcoming in 2021. She is the Director of the MFA Creative Writing Program at Notre Dame and a Fellow of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. 

 

Moderator

Hana Morgenstern (University Lecturer in Postcolonial and Middle East Literature at Cambridge University and a Fellow at Newnham College)

Dr Hana Morgenstern is a scholar, writer and translator. She is University Lecturer in Postcolonial and Middle East Literature at Cambridge University and a Fellow at Newnham College. Dr Morgenstern is co-director of the Documents of the Arab Left and the Revolutionary Papers projects and co-convener of the Archives of the Disappeared seminar. She is currently at work on a book manuscript titled, Literary Infiltrators: Anticolonial Collaboration in Palestine/Israel.

 

 

An event from Archives of the Disappeared: Discipline and Method Amidst Ruin Network series co-organised with Literatures of Annihilation, Exile and Resistance, Notre Dame University.
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