The Permanent Sense of the Diaspora in my Body: A talk by Dr. Lila Sharif
Walter Library Room 401/402, U of M Campus
117 Pleasant St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455- 12/06/2019
- 130–3:30 PM
Event details
How do refugees narrate displacement at this critical juncture of empire, and how does a feminist refugee epistemology (FRE) enable us to think dimensionally, creatively, globally, and intersectionally? This talk with Dr. Lila Sharif (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) explores these questions based on an interview with Chicago-based Palestinian artist, Mary Hazboun, and her collection The Art of Weeping. More info here.
About Dr. Lila Sharif
Lila Sharif is assistant professor of Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She teaches courses on race, empire, militarization, settler colonialism, food and culture. Sharif earned a dual Ph.D. in Sociology and Ethnic Studies from the University of California, San Diego in 2014. She is the first Palestinian American to earn a Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies to date.
Co-sponsored by: U of M’s English Department, Imagine Funds, Imagining Transnational Solidarities Research Circle, Immigration History Research Center, Mizna, Race, Indigeneity, Gender + Sexuality Studies.