Displacement: War • Violence • Incarceration

The Center continues with the theme of Displacement in 2024-2025 with a special emphasis on war, violence and incarceration.

We are living in a time of profound crisis as the war in Gaza and in Ukraine continues unabated; as the prolonged civil wars in countries such as Sudan and Myanmar continue to produce 10 million and more displaced peoples; and as violent attacks against immigrant and minority populations continue to rise in various parts of the world including the United States, UK and South Asia.

What is our role as writers, scholars, faculty and students in the University at large and more specifically, in our own department?

How do we respond to the ways in which violence, both immediate and distant, shapes our quotidian lives, while simultaneously trying to create and inhabit spaces to think about modes of resistance, revolutions and acts of reading, thinking and writing that can speak to the contemporary moment?