ABOUT Dr. Juliane Okot BitekThe Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality\, and Social Justice Noted Scholars Series ( co-sponsored by Transformative Memory International Network (TMIN) presents :
WHEN & WHERE
Wednesday\, March 26\, 12:00-1:00pm
Bu
chanan Tower\, Room 323
Please RSVP belo w in advance
A light lunch will be serve d at 12:00pm.
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ABSTRACT
“The Rooster Woman”\, the title of a section of stories from We\, the Kindling is about Susannah Arac\, a woman who makes several return jou rneys—to a home\, to her homeland\, to her name\, and to herself. In thinki ng about turns and returns\, in fiction\, in history\, in our own lives and how that informs my work as writer and witness. I’m also thinking with Pal estinian novelist Isabella Hammad who writes about the moment of cognition\ , both narratively\, but also literally\, and how that relates to the human and to narrative. When do we know\, what is the moment of knowledge that o rients us to where we are\, where we’re turned\, who we are\, and where we’ re going? What is the work and responsibility of witness when our humanity is at stake\, or limited?
ABOUT Dr. Juliane Okot Bitek
Juliane Okot Bitek’s recent boo k of poetry\, A is for Acholi\, was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memoria l Award and won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Her previous collection\, 100 Days\, reflected on the meaning of memory two decades after the Rwanda genocide. It was nominated for the BC Book Prize\, the Pat Lowther Memoria l Award\, and the Canadian Authors Award for Poetry\, and won the Glenna Lu schei Prize for African Poetry. Her most recent book of poetry\, Song and D read is published by Talonbooks. Juliane is currently an assistant professo r in Black Studies\, joint -appointed in English and Gender Studies at Quee n's University in Kingston\, Ontario.
We\, the Kindling\, her first n ovel\, is being published in several countries and languages.
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