Please join us for a virtual visit from Ali Cobby Eckermann, an Aboriginal poet and memoirist, as part of the Global Arts + Humanities Society of Fellows on November 10 and November 12. Please share this announcement with anyone who may be interested.
Event descriptions:
Global Arts + Humanities Society of Fellows
Digital Dialogue #2
Settler-Colonialism and Indigenous Futures
Ali Cobby Eckermann and Elissa Washuta, November 10 (3:30-5:00pm)
In this dialogue, two Indigenous writers will read from their work and discuss the work of memory, documentation, interrogation, and imagination in creating literary work while surviving the ongoing apocalypse of colonization. Panelists will discuss the significance of creative inquiry into personal and community suffering resulting from colonial oppression. They will also examine the restorative potential for the poem or personal essay to serve as a site of encounter between intergenerational trauma and imagined futures of good relations between beings.
Graduate Workshop #2 Narrating Resistance
Ali Cobby Eckermann, November 12 (4:30-6:00pm)
Moderator: Elissa Washuta
Short Description: With a focus on the work of Yankunytjatjara writer Ali Cobby Eckermann, this graduate workshop will explore literary approaches to building narratives of resistance in defiance of the fragmenting violence of colonialism. Ali Cobby Eckermann’s works of poetry and memoir enact and honor the grieving of losses inflicted by the Australian government through forced separation of Aboriginal families.
Bio:
Yankunytjatjara Aboriginal poet Ali Cobby Eckermann is the author of seven books, including the verse novel Ruby Moonlight (2012, Flood Editions 2015), and the poetry collections Inside My Mother (Giramondo Publishing, 2015) and the memoir Too Afraid to Cry (Ilura Press, 2013). In 2017 she was awarded Yale University's Windham Campbell Prize in Poetry. Ali Cobby Eckermann's work can be found on the Poetry Foundation website and has been reviewed by The Guardian and the New York Times.
Anyone interested should email me (Washuta.2@osu.edu) for details.
