Previous Literature and Global Justice Events

This series aims to bring students and faculty together from across disciplines to learn from literature as a site of both hard realism and imagining otherwise.

  1. Poet, memoirist, scholar, and human rights activist Alicia Partnoy will discuss how solidarity transforms survival into testimony and justice.

  2. Prize-winning poet and physician Fady Joudah will read from his visionary sixth collection of poems, [...], and engage in conversation with UT professor and poet Roger Reeves.

  3. In the midst of the most recent war in Sudan, Sudanese-American author Fatin Abbas read to a UT audience from her highly acclaimed book, Ghost Season: A Novel.

  4. Marking the twentieth anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, Iraqi-American poet and novelist Professor Sinan Antoon visited UT for a public reading from his new novel, Khuzama, on the eve of its publication.

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