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DESCRIPTION:*Please join us* for a reading (in German and English) by Lafay
 ette's Spring \n2023 Max Kade Writer-in-Residence and 2016 Ingeborg Bachma
 nn Prize winner\, \nSharon Dodua Otoo [1]\, and a discussion with remote g
 uest panelists Prof. \nDavid Gramling [2] (UBC) and Prof. Priscilla Layne 
 [3] (UNC at Chapel Hill) \non the topic of literature\, aesthetics\, and s
 ocial change in the \nGerman-speaking world\, Europe\, and the United Stat
 es.\n\nThis is a hybrid event. Please register here [4] for the Zoom meeti
 ng.\n\n*Sharon Dodua Otoo* is a novelist and a political activist. She wri
 tes \nprose\, essays and is editor of the English-language book series \n“
 Witnessed” (edition assemblage). Her first novellas “the things i am \nthi
 nking while smiling politely” and “Synchronicity” were published in \n2012
  and 2015 respectively. Otoo won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2016 with 
 \nthe text “Herr Gröttrup setzt sich hin.” Her first novel\, /Adas Raum/\,
  \nis written in German and was published in 2021 by S. Fischer Verlag. It
  is \ndue to appear shortly in English translation as /Ada’s Room/ (Riverh
 ead \nBooks\, March 2023) and as /Ada’s Realm/ (MacLehose Press\, April \n
 2023). Otoo is politically active with the registered associations \nIniti
 ative Black People in Germany and Phoenix\, and is associated with the \nB
 lack queer feminist organisation ADEFRA. In 2022 she curated the Black \nG
 erman Language Literature Festival “Resonances.” She has four children \na
 nd lives in Berlin.\n\n*Dr. David Gramling* is Professor and Head of the D
 epartment of Central\, \nEastern\, and Northern European Studies at the Un
 iversity of British Columbia. \nHe is the author\, editor\, or translator 
 of seven books in print: /The \nInvention of Multilingualism/ (Cambridge U
 niversity Press\, 2021)\; /The \nInvention of Monolingualism/ (Bloomsbury 
 2016\, American Association for \nApplied Linguistics Book Award\, 2018)\;
  co-author of /Palliative Care \nConversations/: /Clinical and Applied Lin
 guistic Perspectives/ (De Gruyter \n2019\, with David’s big brother Robert
  Gramling)\; /Linguistic \nDisobedience/: /Restoring Power to Civic Langua
 ge/ (Palgrave 2019\, with \nYuliya Komska and Michelle Moyd)\; Ge/rmany in
  Transit//: Nation and \nMigration 1955–2005/ (University of California Pr
 ess 2007 with Deniz \nGöktürk and Anton Kaes)\; and /Transit Deutschland: 
 Debatten zu Nation und \nMigration/ (Konstanz University Press / Wallstein
  Verlag\, with Deniz \nGöktüurk\, Anton Kaes\, and Andreas Langenohl). Dav
 id’s book-length \nco-translation (with Aron Aji) of Murathan Mungan’s Tur
 kish-language \nShahmeran story cycle /Valor: Stories/ (/Cenk Hikayeleri/)
  was published in \nFall 2023 with Northwestern University Press\, support
 ed by a 2021 Global \nHumanities Translation Prize from Northwestern Unive
 rsity. Future books \ninclude /Literature in Late Mono/lingualism/\, /Tran
 slating \nTransgender /(with Aniruddha Dutta)\, and /Aloof: On Seeing Less
  than you \nShould. /David is an editorial board member of /Transgender St
 udies \nQuarterly/ (Duke University Press) and /German Quarterly/\, and wa
 s founding \neditor with Chantelle Warner of /Critical Multilingualism Stu
 dies/\, now \nunder the editorship of Janice McGregor and Emma Trentman.\n
 \n*Dr. Priscilla Layne* is Associate Professor of German and Adjunct Assis
 tant \nProfessor of African and Afro-American Studies at the University of
  North \nCarolina at Chapel Hill. Her first book\, /White Rebels in Black:
  German \nAppropriation of Black Popular Culture/\, was published in 2018 
 with the \nUniversity of Michigan Press. In this book\, she examines how\,
  following WWII\, \nGerman artists often associated white\, rebellious mal
 e characters with black \npopular culture\, because black culture function
 ed as a metaphor for \nrebellion. Priscilla is currently working on her se
 cond book\, /Out of this \nWorld: Afro-German Afrofuturism/\, which focuse
 s on Afro-German authors’ use \nof Afrofuturist concepts in literature and
  theater. In addition to this \nproject\, some of the broader themes she i
 s interested in are German national \nidentity\, conceptions of race and s
 elf/other in Germany\, cross-racial \nempathy\, postcolonialism\, and rebe
 llion.\n\n \n\nWe look forward to welcoming you at the event!\n\n \n\n\n\n
 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[1] http
 s://maxkade.lafayette.edu/2021/12/08/sharon-dodua-otoo/\n[2] https://cenes
 .ubc.ca/profile/david-gramling/\n[3] https://gsll.unc.edu/layne/\n[4] http
 s://lafayette.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwsdemorTIjG9P3gPPZw7zA1HhLUPEkbZh
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LOCATION:Kirby 104 and Zoom (Registration link below)
SUMMARY:Silent Revolutions: A Reading by Sharon Dodua Otoo (Max Kade Center
 ) and \nConversation with Prof. David Gramling (UBC) and Prof. Priscilla L
 ayne (UNC)
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