Oct 31 2023

“She Bursts into Languages: Trauma and Multilingualism in One Woman’s War: Da (Mother)”

Critical Middle East Studies Working Group

October 31, 2023

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Dr. Azadeh Safaeian is a Bridge to Faculty Scholar in the Disability & Human Development department and her work focuses on disability and trauma studies, care studies, postcolonial environmental humanities, animal studies, and film theory. Her current book project attends to the discursive and non-discursive representations of somatic pain and psychological trauma in the literatures and cinemas of minority groups in the context of the Middle East. For the meeting, Azadeh will be workshopping an article draft entitled: "She Bursts into Languages: Trauma and Multilingualism in One Woman’s War: Da (Mother).”

 

If you would like to receive a copy of the paper ahead of time, contact Andy Clarno at aclarno@uic.edu

 

 

 

 

Contact

Institute for the Humanities

Date posted

Oct 18, 2023

Date updated

Oct 18, 2023