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.
Poetry and Life-Writing: Panel-led Workshop 1
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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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Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation is a Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Series running in 2017-18 at the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University. It brings together academics from many different fields, politicians and leading figures from cultural policy and the charitable sector. They are joined by novelists, poets, artists and musicians whose work has marked war in some way. The Series is divided into three strands - Textual, Monumental, and Aural Commemoration - and...
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