Archive: Aminatta Forna
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Lannan Symposium: Reading and Writing the Body
Pictured left to right: Rabih Alameddine, Meghan O’Rourke, Daniel Marchalik, and Tope Folarin. In February 2023, Medical Humanities collaborated with the Lannan Center on the Lannan Symposium:
Category: Past events
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A Conversation with Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah
This event, co-sponsored by the Lannan Center and the African Studies Program, featured Tanzanian novelist and Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah in conversation with Aminatta Forna.
Category: Past events
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Racism as Distraction: Aminatta Forna Writes about Toni Morrison
In this text she wrote for the Luminato Festival Toronto on Toni Morrison, Aminatta Forna reflects about Toni Morrison’s powerful words, that frame racism’s function as distraction.
Category: Media
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“Reclaiming Power Over One’s Own Story”, Aminatta Forna’s Remarks on Abdulrazak Gurnah from the 2022 PEN America: World Voices Festival Opening Night
In her remarks for the opening night of the 2022 PEN America: World Voices Festival, Aminatta Forna recognizes what makes the work of Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah powerful and revealing.
Category: Media
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Double Visions: Aminatta Forna and Laila Lalami at the 2022 PEN America: World Voices Festival
The second day of the 2022 PEN America: World Voices Festival featured Aminatta Forna in conversation with Pulitzer Prize Finalist Laila Lalami. Both of these authors draw from their own lives to explore the desire for belonging in boundary-crossing experiences centered on identity, notions of place, and questions of origin. Together, they discussed how their nonfiction works document life on the edges of belonging—across cultures, countries, and eras.
Category: Past events
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Aminatta Forna is One of Nearly 100 Authors Gathering at the PEN America Emergency World Voices Congress of Writers
On May 10, 2022, PEN America published a press release convening the Emergency Congress of Writers in Response to the War in Ukraine and Other Global Crises, which announced the gathering of nearly 100 authors, including Aminatta Forna, at the United Nations to Weigh Free Expression and the Role of Writers Amid Upheaval, on May 13.
Category: Past events
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Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah in Conversation with Aminatta Forna and Others at the 2022 PEN America: World Voices Festival
The opening night of the 2022 PEN America: World Voices Festival celebrated the work of Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, in his first appearance in the United States after being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature last October. This event, which took place in New York on May 13, featured readings, performances, and a conversation with Aminatta Forna, Nadifa Mohamed, Esau Pritchett, Alsarah, and others.
Category: Past events
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“On Suffering, Trauma, and Resilience”, The Yale Review Interviews Aminatta Forna
In this interview, James Surowiecki, consulting editor at The Yale Review, talks with Aminatta Forna about her recently published essay “Who Owns Your Story? Transcending the Trauma Narrative”.
Category: Media
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The Bookseller Talks about Rift, Aminatta Forna’s New Book Project
According to The Bookseller, William Collins made a “substantial deal” to publish Aminatta Forna’s new book project, Rift, slated for publication in 2024.
Category: Media
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“In Your Shoes: Reckoning with Our Past/Imagining Our Future“ Closes the 2022 Lannan Symposium “Beyond Identity: Reimagining the American Narrative”
This performance, which was the closing event of the 2022 Lannan Symposium, “Beyond Identity: Reimagining the American Narrative,” displayed The Lab’s award-winning In Your Shoes methodology, created and developed around the world by Derek Goldman, in which participants have deep, open conversations around a topic and then perform one another’s perspectives.
Category: Past events