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12:00 PM-1:30 PM, PT
Interrogating Identities
Panel discussion|Mithu Sanyal in Conversation with Priscilla Layne and Elisabeth Krimmer
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Online Online
- Language English
- Price Admission free
Moderators: Elisabeth Krimmer, Professor of German, UC Davis; Priscilla Layne, Associate Professor, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Speaker/Performer: Mithu Sanyal, Author
Mithu Sanyal is an award-winning novelist, academic, critic and broadcaster, who writes about sex, gender, postcolonialism, power structures, and racism. Sanyal studied German and English literature at the Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf. Her first book, a cultural history of the vulva, appeared with Verlag Klaus Wagenbach under the title Vulva: Die Enthüllung des unsichtbaren Geschlechts. Her second book, Vergewaltigung (Rape: From Lucretia to #MeToo), was published by Edition Nautilus. She has written numerous articles and radio plays for WDR, Deutschlandfunk, BR, DIE ZEIT, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Rundschau, taz, and The Guardian. Her first novel, Identitti, published in 2021 with Carl Hanser, was shortlisted for the German Book Prize. The translation is forthcoming with Astra House (US) and V&Q Books (UK).
This event is part of the conversation series "Archives of Migration: The Power of Fiction in Times of Fake News", a collaboration with the German department at the University of California, Berkeley, the department of German & Russian at the University of California, Davis, the German Historical Institute and the Institute of European Studies (IES).
Speaker/Performer: Mithu Sanyal, Author
Mithu Sanyal is an award-winning novelist, academic, critic and broadcaster, who writes about sex, gender, postcolonialism, power structures, and racism. Sanyal studied German and English literature at the Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf. Her first book, a cultural history of the vulva, appeared with Verlag Klaus Wagenbach under the title Vulva: Die Enthüllung des unsichtbaren Geschlechts. Her second book, Vergewaltigung (Rape: From Lucretia to #MeToo), was published by Edition Nautilus. She has written numerous articles and radio plays for WDR, Deutschlandfunk, BR, DIE ZEIT, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Rundschau, taz, and The Guardian. Her first novel, Identitti, published in 2021 with Carl Hanser, was shortlisted for the German Book Prize. The translation is forthcoming with Astra House (US) and V&Q Books (UK).
This event is part of the conversation series "Archives of Migration: The Power of Fiction in Times of Fake News", a collaboration with the German department at the University of California, Berkeley, the department of German & Russian at the University of California, Davis, the German Historical Institute and the Institute of European Studies (IES).