Seminars
Seminar with the Dawit Isaak Library
On Wednesday, November 29th, the Komplitt seminar is joined by Emelie Ive and Ulrika Ahlberg from the Dawit Isaak Library in Malmö, for a presentation of the library's collections and work with censored literature and banned authors.
Time and place: 15–17 in H140, the Centre for Languages and Literature.
Information about the Dawit Isaak Library can be found here.
Queer, Indigenous, Multilingual: Postcolonial Literature in Taiwan
In this talk, lecturer and award-winning novelist Chi Ta-wei 紀大偉 takes his 1996-novella The Membranes (膜) out of the context of late 20th century Taiwanese science fiction and explains how he was actually inspired to write this localized queer fiction and imagine creolized queer theory when he took classes on Gayatri Spivak and other postcolonial scholars at National Taiwan University. He goes on to give a chronological survey of postcolonial literature in Taiwan with a focus on how local authors and academics were inspired by, and helped further develop, postcolonial theory.
Time and place: Tuesday, Oct. 24. 15–17 in H339.
The event is co-organized with Korridor small press, who recently published Chi’s novel Membraner, translated into Danish by Astrid Møller-Olsen, and is sponsored by the National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan.