In converation: Aminatta Forna & Elleke Boehmer
In this conversation, award-winning novelist and memoirist Aminatta Forna and Elleke Boehmer will discuss the ways in which Ms Forna’s work (which includes her novel The Memory of Love and memoir about Sierra Leone, The Devil That Danced on the Water) have portrayed situations of conflict and post-conflict, and how literature can offer new perspectives on commemoration, reconstruction and reconciliation.
Open to the public.
Date:
20 October 2017, 17:30 (Friday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2017)
Venue:
Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details:
Lecture Theatre 3
Speakers:
Aminatta Forna (novelist and memoirist, Lannan Visiting Professor of Poetics at Georgetown University),
Elleke Boehmer (Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford)
Organising department:
The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Part of:
Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Series. Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstraction, Reconciliation
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Laura Spence
