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Human Performances, Political Animals: Languages of Belonging in Haw and Jîn

Name: Human Performances, Political Animals: Languages of Belonging in Haw and Jîn
Start: 2019-11-14T18:00:00+00:00
End: 2019-11-14T19:30:00+00:00
Location: Ella Weed Room

11/14/2019 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Public Talk with Hande Gurses, Simon Fraser University, Weiss Visiting International Fellow at Barnard College

Thursday, November 14, 2019, 6-7:30 PM

Ella Weed Room Milbank Hall, Barnard College

Exploring Kemal Varol’s 2014 novel Haw and Reha Erdem’s 2013 movie Jîn, Professor Gurses asks how animals’ speech testifies to the trauma of war, sovereign power, and displacement. She considers how these works experiment with language traversing the animal/human divide in order to shelter the displaced and resist the violence they suffer

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