Regents Professor and memoirist Patricia Hampl has teamed up with Human Rights Program director Barbara Frey to create "My Letter to the World: Narrating Human Rights," a series of free talks and panel discussions October 10 devoted to human rights and the personal narrative voice (whether in fiction, nonfiction, poetry). Panelists include two other University Regents Professors, Kathryn Sikkink and Elaine Tyler May, four memoirists and scholars from England, among them Annette Koback and Vesna Goldsworthy, and Azeri political blogger Emin Milli. Novelist and CLA Winton Chair Nuruddin Farah will also participate. The capstone event is the Department of English's Esther Freier Endowed Lecture in Literature, which will be given by Philip Gourevitch, author of the award-winning account of the Rwandan genocide, We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will be Killed with Our Families. Sponsored by the Creative Writing and Human Rights programs with English, all events take place in Coffman Union Theater and are open to the public.
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Monday, October 3, 2011
"My Letter to the World" Brings International Guests
Regents Professor and memoirist Patricia Hampl has teamed up with Human Rights Program director Barbara Frey to create "My Letter to the World: Narrating Human Rights," a series of free talks and panel discussions October 10 devoted to human rights and the personal narrative voice (whether in fiction, nonfiction, poetry). Panelists include two other University Regents Professors, Kathryn Sikkink and Elaine Tyler May, four memoirists and scholars from England, among them Annette Koback and Vesna Goldsworthy, and Azeri political blogger Emin Milli. Novelist and CLA Winton Chair Nuruddin Farah will also participate. The capstone event is the Department of English's Esther Freier Endowed Lecture in Literature, which will be given by Philip Gourevitch, author of the award-winning account of the Rwandan genocide, We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will be Killed with Our Families. Sponsored by the Creative Writing and Human Rights programs with English, all events take place in Coffman Union Theater and are open to the public.
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