Description
The 2016 Millennium conference aims to “interrogate and theorise what it means to live in a racialized world.” But interrogation and theory can only take us so far, and, perhaps, only in a certain direction. Inspired by writers such as Frantz Fanon, Amitav Ghosh, Trinh Minh-Ha and many others, including those closer to home—consummate story tellers like Robbie Shilliam, L.H.M.Ling and Himadeep Muppidi, for example—this panel proposes an alternative: a space for telling stories around the themes of the conference. Telling stories can evoke what theorizing sometimes obscures. In paying attention to the detail and complexities of being, stories can reveal the worlds contained in the minutiae of lives, worlds often inexpressible in words yet held somehow in the gaps between them or felt in the rhythm of the text. With stories, “there is no catching, no pushing, no directing, no breaking through, no need for a linear progression which gives the comforting illusion that one knows where one goes” (Minh-Ha, 1989). While it is important to acknowledge “the seductions of narrative” (Disch, 2003), this panel provides the opportunity to experience its potential. Participants bring stories to tell, their own or those of others, and invite stories from the audience in return.| Period | 23 Oct 2016 |
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| Event title | Millennium Conference 2016 |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | London, United KingdomShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |