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Worlds at Home : On Cosmopolitan Futures : “Reading Worlds at Home” Grant, Larry; Ling, Sarah; Mootoo, Shani; Kwa, Lydia, 1959-; Lai, Larissa

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“Reading Worlds at Home” Featuring readings by Shani Mootoo, Lydia Kwa, and Larissa Lai and a discussion of the film All Our Father’s Relations by Elder Larry Grant and Sarah Ling. The event was part of “Worlds at Home: On Cosmopolitan Futures,” a public symposium bringing together scholars from across Canada, the US and Australia to consider the future of cosmopolitanism as a critical approach to scholarship and praxis. The symposium took place on UBC’s Vancouver campus from March 16-17, 2017 and featured an interview with Dr. Sneja Gunew (UBC) and a launch of her book, Post-multicultural Writers as Neo-cosmopolitan Mediators (Anthem Press) as well as a keynote address by Dr. Pheng Cheah (UC Berkeley) and more. For more information about “Worlds at Home: On Cosmopolitan Futures,” visit: http://worldsathome.arts.ubc.ca/

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Title
Worlds at Home : On Cosmopolitan Futures : “Reading Worlds at Home”
Creator
Grant, Larry; Ling, Sarah; Mootoo, Shani; Kwa, Lydia, 1959-; Lai, Larissa
Contributor
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Date Issued
2017-03-27
Description
“Reading Worlds at Home” Featuring readings by Shani Mootoo, Lydia Kwa, and Larissa Lai and a discussion of the film All Our Father’s Relations by Elder Larry Grant and Sarah Ling. The event was part of “Worlds at Home: On Cosmopolitan Futures,” a public symposium bringing together scholars from across Canada, the US and Australia to consider the future of cosmopolitanism as a critical approach to scholarship and praxis. The symposium took place on UBC’s Vancouver campus from March 16-17, 2017 and featured an interview with Dr. Sneja Gunew (UBC) and a launch of her book, Post-multicultural Writers as Neo-cosmopolitan Mediators (Anthem Press) as well as a keynote address by Dr. Pheng Cheah (UC Berkeley) and more. For more information about “Worlds at Home: On Cosmopolitan Futures,” visit: http://worldsathome.arts.ubc.ca/
Type
Moving Image
Language
eng
Date Available
2017-10-25
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0357267
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/63430
Affiliation
Arts, Faculty of; Other UBC; Non UBC; English, Department of
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Graduate; Other
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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DSpace

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