Writing between Cultures

Prospective Students Students and Doctorate Alumni and Supporters Continuing Education - Joint event organized by the Temporal Communities Cluster of Excellence and the international literature festival berlin, at 6 p.m. on September 21 at silent green Kulturquartier No 262/2019 from Sep 10, 2019 They moved as children or teens, perhaps from Iran to the United States or from Nigeria to the UK - "third culture kids." Three authors with these kinds of transcultural backgrounds will be featured at a joint event organized by the Temporal Communities Cluster of Excellence, Freie Universität Berlin, and the international literature festival berlin at 6 p.m. on September 21, where they will engage in discussion with scholars from the cluster. The guests are poet Kaveh Akbar and novelists Michel Faber and Chibundu Onuzo. They will be speaking with Dr. Dustin Breitenwischer, a scholar of American language and literature, and dance scholar Dr. Lindsey Drury. They will explore lives between cultures and how the life stories and experiences of the authors have shaped their writing. Toby Ashraf will moderate the event in English. The location is at silent green Kulturquartier, in Berlin's Wedding district.