Connection and Community in a Time of Crisis by RMIT
Join the non/fictionLab for PUBLIC: the 2021 forum series on 23 September 2021 at 12.30 PM / 09.30 AM WIB! Adjunct Professor Alvin Pang (Singapore) chairs a panel on international writerly exchange, with guests Ranjit Hoskote (India), Yvonne Owuor (Kenya), Ellen van Neerven (Australia), and Kyoko Yoshida (Japan). Non/fictionLab's Adjunct Professor Alvin Pang chairs a panel on international writerly exchange.
The global pandemic has separated us, but it also sharpens our need to connect as creative practitioners and as fellow human beings — especially when our most pressing issues cut across national, cultural and disciplinary boundaries.
In an era of lockdowns and closed borders, how can we build meaningful bridges and grow a sense of community to sustain us, through this current crisis and future ones to come?
Five distinguished international writers share their significant ties, rituals of writerly kinship, and why, in a time of isolation and global mistrust, we must refuse to be silent to one another.
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The non/fictionLab is supported by Writing and Publishing @ RMIT.