The Centre for Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London, organises a mini-series on Remnants of the Iraq Wars: Iraqi Literature Twenty Years after 9/11

7 September 2021 – Iraq: Corporeality & Memory. Iraqi literature, 20 years after 9/11 (16.00-18.15)

22 September 2021 – Aftermath Bodies: Corporeality in Contemporary Iraqi Fiction (16.00-17.30).

Both events are online, via Zoom. Attendance is free, but booking is essential.

Aftermath Bodies: Corporeality in Contemporary Iraqi Fiction (22 September 2021, 16.00 – 17.30 BST)

Ever since the US-led invasion of Iraq, local and diaspora authors have been engaging with new aesthetics of corporeality. In this seminar, Hanan Jasim Khammas, CCL Visiting Doctoral Scholar, in discussion with Ikram Masmoudi (University of Delaware) and Hanna Simpson (University of Oxford), reviews aspects of corporeality in contemporary Iraqi fiction and shows how new representation of the body suggest a development in the perceptions of the body as a cultural sign.

For more information on the speakers and to book, click here. 

Mònica Rius-Piniés, member of ADHUC, is one of the expert consultants of the CCL at Goldsmiths.