The Canisius College Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures kicks off its spring 2022 Borders & Migrations series on Monday, February 28 with Rakesh Satyal, executive editor at HarperOne, a division of HarperCollins. The event begins at 12:00 p.m. in the Andrew L. Bouwhuis Library. It is being offered in a hybrid format and is free and open to the public.
All in-person attendees are required to wear a face covering that covers their mouth and nose.
The event will be broadcast on Zoom, here.
In addition to his role as executive editor at HarperOne, Satyal is an American novelist best known for his Lambda Literary Award-winning debut novel Blue Boy, which won the 2009 Prose/Poetry Award from the Association of Asian American Studies. He is also the author of No One Can Pronounce My Name, which was long-listed for the Dublin Literary Award. Satyal was a recipient of a 2010 Fellowship in Fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
This first event in the Borders and Migration Series is focused on the Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) initiative and is being held in conjunction with LGTBQIA+ Speakers Series.
Below is a list of upcoming events in the Borders and Migration Series. More information on these events will follow in the coming weeks.
- Dr. Secil Ertorer on COVID & AAPI Discrimination Andrew L. Bouwhuis Library March 16 12:00p.m.
- Film Screening (online) of “Island of the Hungry Ghosts”
- Conversation with Poh Lin Lee, therapist featured in the film April 4 12:00 p.m.
- Diaspora on the Front Lines: Art Installation on Filipino Health Care Workers and Covid. 3 Cubes will be up: 1 in library and two in science hall.
- The exhibition “Diaspora on the Front Lines” by Rosem Morton was originally commissioned and produced by the Friends of The Philippines Society USA Inc. and Photoville, for the Photoville Festival in Brooklyn Bridge Park, NYC”
- Artist Talk with Rosem Morton April 21 6.30 pm Science Hall Commons
Submitted by: Richard D. Reitsma, PhD, associate professor and chair, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures & Cultures
