Joy Harjo will give a reading of her work along with commentary.

The lecture will be followed by a wine reception and book signing. The titles available will be Poet Warrior, An American Sunrise, and When the Light of the World was Subdued.

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The symposium takes its title from a much-cited comment by contemporary American poet, Sharon Olds. The speakers at the symposium will consider this phrase in relation to Bishop’s poetry and to the critical reception of it since her death. Does Bishop’s poetry draw on the author’s personal experience and if so, to what ends? To what extent is a critic or poet’s own biography in play when they speak about Bishop’s writing?

Join us for a conversation with Kathryn Olivarius, author of the newly-released Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom (Harvard UP, 2022)

Biography

Haya Fayyad Abu Hussein is a visiting fellow at St. Antony’s and the Middle East Centre from Birzeit University, Palestine. During her visit to Oxford, Dr. Fayyad Abu Hussein conducted research about the potential impact of European financial aids on the national and historical content of the Palestinian school curriculum.

Over 50 years since the term 'War on Drugs' was coined after then President of the United States Richard Nixon's speech, has the time come to reassess the merits of conventional anti-drug policies for dealing with the global movement and sale of narcotics?