Berlin-based writer Zafer Şenocak will read from his new bilingual poetry collection First Light (Turkish and English). Readers will find explorations of migration, exile, memory, identity, and the fine line between reason and belief — themes that have appeared throughout his career as a leading Turkish-German intellectual, but which gain new shades of meaning as he articulates them in his first language. Some poems reference mystical Islam — exploring both hidden and evident aspects of the world, the real and the dream-like — as well as Turkish poetic traditions. These poems movingly give voice to what his translator Kristin Dickinson calls “moments of cross-cultural contact and entanglement.”

The follow-up discussion with Şenocak and Dickinson will be moderated by CENES’ Markus Hallensleben.

How to Attend
This lecture will be hosted online over Zoom on November 6, at 2:00pm Pacific Time. Please register here in advance for this meeting.

This event is co-sponsored by the UBC Narratives Group in the Centre for Migration Studies.

Date: Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: Online