Visiting speakers Taiwo AdetunjiOsinubi and Neisha-Anne Green

[Arts Communications]

Join the Department of English Language and Literature for two upcoming speaker events:

Visiting speaker: Dr. Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi
Autofiction/Faction: Death, Temporality, and Collectives in Wole Soyinka’s Political Memoirs

Monday, February 24 at 10 a.m.
Hagey Hall, room 273

This talk examines Wole Soyinka’s memoir You Must Set Forth at Dawn as autofiction and auto-theory, examining three interrelated thematic modalities and aesthetic executions in the text: Soyinka’s narrative modelling of the social body as a sensorium of common feeling through formal narrative features; his use of an optative elegiac mode within a post-national circum-Atlantic world as a gesture of mourning and rearrangement; and his use of border dialogues to intimate emerging collectives and the global dimensions of the historical transformations affecting Nigeria.

Read Dr. Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi's bio<https://uwaterloo.ca/events/events/autofictionfaction-death-temporality-and-collectives-wole>


Visiting speaker: Neisha-Anne Green
Recipes made Radical: Kitchentales of Survival and Resistance

Wednesday, February 26, 1 p.m.
Student Life Centre, Black and Gold room

The kitchen has long been a site of both nourishment and defiance—a space where survival, culture, and activism converge. This talk explores how food serves as a powerful tool of resistance, from the resourceful cooking of enslaved and oppressed peoples to the current and impending food injustice movements that call to questions folks understandings of a tariff and bird flu. Blending activism, and personal storytelling, Radical Recipes highlights the ways in which marginalized communities have used food to preserve identity, sustain resistance, and build collective power.

Co-hosted by the Writing and Communication Centre and the Wilfrid Laurier Student Success Office.

Read Neisha-Anne Green's bio<https://uwaterloo.ca/events/events/recipes-made-radical-kitchentales-survival-and-resistance>

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