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ASSEMBLY HALL is a reading group that offers provocative discussions on topics related to the exhibitions Chronicle of a Fall and A Species of Theft. This virtual program series openly invites participants to critically engage and reflect on contemporary thought in memoir, biography, and cultural studies. Authors include Dionne Brand, Robert Nichols, Edouard Glissant, and others.

In this final meeting of Assembly Hall, we will be considering questions of literary and poetic form and how such approaches enable or limit accounts of diasporic migration, as well as the decades-long role the US has played in exacerbating such migrations.

Facilitated by Artie Foster, Exhibition Planning Assistant.

Advanced registration is encouraged.

ASSEMBLY HALL III:

Aug. 4, 2022, 5-6:30 PM CT

Selected poems from Go Home!, edited by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, 2018 

“The Other Man” and “Fatherland” from Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees, 2017

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ACCESS INFORMATION: 

This program is free and CART captioning will be available. For any access requests, please contact gallery400@uic.edu