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SUMMARY: Memory\, Intimacy and Difficult Knowledge
DESCRIPTION: Please join us for a conversation between Noo Saro-Wiwa\, awar
 d-winning travel writer\, and Dr. Juliane Otoniya Okot Bitek\, award-winnin
 g Poet. The dialogue will incorporate the two authors' readings and reflect
 ions\, grounded in their own experiences.
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 e-medium" src="https://sppga.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/201
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 imacy and Difficult Knowledge" width="249" height="300" /></p><p><strong>Me
 mory\, Intimacy and Difficult Knowledge: A Dialogue between Noo Saro-Wiwa a
 nd Dr. Juliane Okot Bitek</strong></p><p><em><strong>Please RSVP\, with a r
 eception to follow the main event.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Please n
 ote:</strong></em> This event has been moved to the adjacent larger room\, 
 xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of Many Trees)\, 1st floor\, Liu Institute for Global Is
 sues.</p><p>Please join us for a conversation between Noo Saro-Wiwa\, award
 -winning travel writer\, and Dr. Juliane Otoniya Okot Bitek\, award-winning
  Poet. The dialogue will incorporate the two authors' readings and reflecti
 ons\, grounded in their own experiences. Noo is writing a book about her tr
 avels around the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. This area is her native hom
 eland and the source of childhood memories\, but it is also a place of envi
 ronmental degradation\, violence and political instability. Juliane has bee
 n thinking and writing about homeland as well. In her work\, she thinks abo
 ut poetry as a space for reflection\, truth telling and a possible future b
 eyond the trauma of mass violence and war. Different from Afrofuturism\, or
  even Africanfuturism\, poetry in song remembers and is the practice of a d
 eep tradition where art is the ultimate expression of a people.</p><p>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 w
 ill be the conclusion of a course at UBC entitled\, “Difficult Knowledge: E
 thics and Praxis of Research in Challenging Settings.”</p><p>All are welcom
 e and encouraged to attend!</p><p><strong>Organized by: <img class="alignce
 nter wp-image-31981 size-medium" src="https://sppga.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-cont
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 ng></p><p><strong>Co-sponsors:</strong></p><p><img class="aligncenter wp-im
 age-32276 size-medium" src="https://sppga.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/upload
 s/sites/5/2019/11/Social-Justice-Institute-260x300.jpg" alt="Social Justice
  Institute" width="260" height="300" /></p><p><img class="aligncenter size-
 medium_large wp-image-26674" src="https://sppga.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/
 uploads/sites/5/2018/09/8_2017_1UnitStandard_PolicySchool_BlackRGB300-768x1
 59.jpg" alt="SPPGA Wordmark" width="620" height="128" /></p><p> </p>
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LOCATION:Liu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
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