Subtitle:
Activity Type:
Lecture
Presenter:
Nuruddin Farah
Date:
Thursday, October 6, 2016 - 17:00
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Location:
602 Cathedral of Learning
Contact Person:
Abigail Lind
Contact Phone:
Contact Email:
abl41@pitt.edu
Event Web Site:
Cost:
Nuruddin Farah is the winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature as well as the Kurt Tucholsky Prize given by Swedish Pen. Farah's fiction and essays engage with the topics of feminism, colonialism, dictatorship, civil war, and terrorism in his native country, Somalia. Farah was forced into a 22-year exile as a result of his unflinching critiques of female genital mutilation and the dictatorship of Maxamed Siyaad Barre.
This event is hosted by boundary 2: an international journal of literature and culture, The Humanities Center, Professor Johnathan Arac, and Professor Paul. A. Bové. Nuruddin Farah is currently a Distinguished Professor of Literature at Bard College.
UCIS Unit:
Global Studies Center
Other Pitt Sponsors:
Department of English