HYBRID: Writing Displacements

This roundtable offers a space for critical and creative reflection on different ways of writing displacements. Gathering poets and scholars, the space seeks to open and to build displacement-to-displacement conversations and solidarities, thinking across histories and geographies, movements, times and places. It combines presentations of new books relating to refuge and displacement, with readings by poets, conversations on writing across forms and genres, and the ways that writing displacements can become a way of holding struggles together.

The event is intended to be of particular relevance and support to current UCL PhD researchers and early career researchers who are engaged with writing displacements and thinking about/working on publishing in this area.

Speakers

• Charlotte al-Khalili – author of Waiting for the Revolution to End: Syrian Displacement, Time and Subjectivity
• Anthony Vahni Capildeo – author of Like a Tree, Walking
• Sana Murrani – author of Rupturing Architecture: Spatial Practices of Refuge in Response to War and Violence in Iraq, 2003-2023
• Yousif M Qasmiyeh – author of Eating the Archive and Writing the Camp
• Shash Trevett – author of The Naming of Names

Organised and hosted by Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh and Tom Western in collaboration with the UCL Refuge in a Moving World network

With generous support from the UCL IAS Octagon Small Grants Fund.

Food and drinks will be provided.

Please register to attend: https://writing-displacements.eventbrite.co.uk

Image credit: Photo by Radek Homola on Unsplash