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Poetry and Life-Writing: Panel-led Workshop 1

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Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation
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Bringing together experts working at the intersection of literature, human rights, foreign policy and peace initiatives, this workshop explored the role of poetry and life-writing in post-war healing.
The first workshop in our Textual Commemoration strand took place on Saturday 21 October 2017. Panellists included: Dunya Mikhail (poet); Philippe Sands, QC (barrister and writer); Lord (John) Alderdice (Liberal Democrat peer; former Speaker of the Northern Irish Assembly; Director of the Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict (CRIC)); Professor Jeremy Treglown (Senior Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London); Chair: Professor Elleke Boehmer (Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford).

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Series
Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation
People
Dunya Mikhail
Philippe Sands
Lord John Alderdice
Jeremy Treglown
Elleke Boehmer
Keywords
poetry
literature
war
post war
reconciliation
commemoration
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 21/11/2017
Duration: 01:00:08

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