Reading for Estepa Editions at Red Wheelbarrow on 29 Jan 2023

 

Upcoming Events: where to find Jennifer K Dick and many other, exciting authors!

 I am in busy mode as we settle into 2023. Here are a few places you can find me:

STRASBOURG 28 January 2023:

SWAS: Strasbourg Write A Story: Fiction Writing Workshop "MYSTERY" with Jennifer K Dick on 28th January 2023 14-16h. http://sxb-write-a-story.org/workshops-2022-23-new/

Course Description: The Mysteries that Surround Us — This generative writing workshop with Jennifer K Dick will be based around “mystery”. Not the genre, but instead the mysteries that surround us every day and which provide a million opportunities for us to encounter and make stories. As such, this workshop will focus on where to find a story, questions of what plot is and why it might or might not matter to story writing (for you) and how to use questions to find characters and their motivations. Finally, our afternoon together will close with some tips on how to hone and polish your story. The goal is to encounter a little of the unknown together, to write something into being, and to leave perhaps not with more knowns, but rather with more mysteries to explore on our own as we continue to uncover, craft and polish our own fiction. Please come with the necessary materials to write in situ and an openness to discover and encounter the mysteries of your own inner universes.YOU CAN ALSO SUBMIT YOUR STORIES TO THE 2023 SWAS CONTEST, NOW OPEN.

PARIS 29th, 30th and 31st January 2023: 

RED WHEELBARROW EVENT at 16 for Estepa Editions with Lisa Pasold, Barbara Beck, Jennifer K Dick and Michelle Noteboom along with Kate Van Houten, publisher, author and visual artist who founded and publishes Estepa Editions artbooks. This will be a wonderful reading to support an amazing art book publisher. You can also pick up copies of books by the authors published by other publishers and get those signed. A great way to keep a local bookstore thriving!

SPOKEN WORD PARIS Guest Feature Jennifer K Dick MONDAY 30 January 2023. This is an open mic scene, so come and sign up at 8pm. Spoken Word is at a new venue again for the 30th and this is the CAVE CAFE which is up on Marcadet. It has amazing beers and the reading will be downstairs. Best arrival options: Lamarck and walk down some stairs, Marcadet and a bit of a longer stroll over or Jule Joffrin and a short jaunt uphill. Wonderful authentic cave, great little stage and mic. I have provided a theme for the night should you decide to compose a poem specifically for the event--see the Spokenword Paris facebook group or website for more. 20h is a good time to arrive, or a bit earlier for more beer.

IVY WRITERS PARIS mcing for the soirée bilingue with Marielle Anselmo, Jason Stoneking and William Strangmeyer who will be reading Tuesday the 31st of January at 19h30! Full information for that will be up soon at: https://ivywritersparis.blogspot.com/ This event starts at 19h30 but come along a little bit early and get a beer or a cocktail on happy hour and chat with the writers in the gorgeous setting of Delaville Café.

Jennifer K Dick speaking at Citizenship Across Borders on Oct 20th 2022

I am thrilled to announce that I will be giving a talk at the CITIZENSHIP ACROSS BORDERS conference in Strasbourg at the Palais Universitaire Salle Pasteur (full programme for anyone interested in attending below). I will be speaking in Panel 1 Citizenship as a construction: Language, Literature and Perceptions at 13h30. My talk is titled: " Under Flag: Language and (Unattainable) Homogenization in the Era of Postnational Citizenship" and it is about the multilingual writings and performances of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Craig Santos Perez, Bhanu Kapil and Myung Mi Kim.

Abstract for my talk;

As definitions of nationality and citizenship develop and change, one of the unifying methods of assembling a people under one flag has continued to be language. Language tests have become a component of Nationality exams in France and other European States. Perception of poor reading or writing skills in the language of the country one is attempting to officially migrate into has even lead to the revocation of temporary asylum and national status. Defining nation and citizen based on language is even more highly problematic within the USA, where there has never been an official National Language. This talk will explore how this complex, highly fallacious method of calling a people a people, unified under the umbrella of language, has been radically deplored and deftly criticized within later 20^th century and early 21^st century experimental poetry and poetics, especially in the writings of marginalized and immigrant populations of the United States, from immigrants Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's and Myung Mi Kim’s books to USA native of Guam, Craig Santos Perez’s 4-book cycle from Unincorporated Territory. These authors, like Bhanu Kapil who I will also speak about, in inspiring, emblematic works, have quietly been lobbying through marginalized, often invisible poetic practices for non-binary existences, for new ways to say “I belong”, “I am here”, methods of recognizing the root relationship between language (as spoken and written) in attaining a post-national state of citizenship.

These works are a reckoning and recognition of linguistic and cultural otherness within perceived unified nations. As such, exploration and study of these authors provide essential tools for deeper reflections on notions of citizenship and nationality in our increasingly globalized world.              

 

Organized by

University of Strasbourg – Syracuse University

 

Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University

 

Université de Strasbourg, DRES National Centre for Scientific Research UMR 7354

 

Syracuse Abroad and the Syracuse Strasbourg Center

20-21 October 2022

Strasbourg

October 20^th Thursday

Université de Strasbourg, Palais Universitaire, Salle Pasteur

9h00-9h15 Welcome in the Aula of the University Palace

9h30 Opening: Carol Faulkner / Samim Akgönül

Welcome address: Erika Wilkens (Syracuse Abroad) / Vincente Fortier (DRES research center)

Raymond Bach (Syracuse Strasbourg Center)

10h45

Keynote: Elizabeth Cohen, Syracuse University: Citizenship Across Generations

12h00 Lunch break sponsored by DRES Research Center  

 

Restaurant « la Victoire », 24 Quai des Pêcheurs, 67000 Strasbourg

 

13h30 Panel 1

 

Citizenship as a construction: Language, Literature and Perceptions

Chair: Samim Akgönül

 

Dympna Callaghan, Syracuse University: “Poor citizen, distressed”:  Shakespeare and the Citizen

 

Jennifer K. Dick, University of Haute Alsace: Under Flag: Language and (Unattainable) Homogenization in the Era of Postnational Citizenship

 

Subhasree Ghosh, University of Calcutta, From Subjects to Citizens: ‘Constructing’ Citizenship in Post-Colonial India, 1947-1955

 

15h00-15h15 Coffee Break

 

15h15 Panel 2

 

Post-ottoman nationhood and citizenship

Chair: Seth Jolly

 

Samim Akgӧnül, University of Strasbourg: Why immigrants vote? External vote of Turks in Europe and loyalty concerns

Yunus Sözen, LeMoyne College: Pro-immigration Right-Wing Authoritarian Populism: Redefining Nation and Citizenship in Turkey

Inci Öykü Yener-Roderburg, University of Essen-Duisburg: Non-voter remote refugee partisanship:  Evidence from the non-voter Kurds for the Turkish Elections in Germany

 

16h45-17h00 coffee break

 

17h00 Panel 3

 

Legal citizenship: roots and mutations

Chair: John J. Goodman

 

Chris R. Kyle, Syracuse University: Birthright Naturalization Law: An English Historical Perspective

 

Andres Sanchez-Padilla, Centro Universitario de la Defensa de Zaragoza: Defining the Rules of Naturalization: Sovereignty, Citizenship, and U.S.-Spanish Relations (1868-1884)

 

Dalia Abdelhady, Lund University, and Amy Lutz, Syracuse University: Lived Citizenship among the Children of North African Immigrants

 

18h30 Break before Dinner

 

19h30 Conference dinner sponsored by the Maxwell School,

Restaurant “Au pont Saint Martin” 15 Rue des Moulins, 67000 Strasbourg

 

 

October 21^st Friday

Syracuse University Strasbourg Center, Room 202/203

19 Quai Rouget de Lisle

8h30-9h00 Welcome and coffee

9h00 Panel 4

 

Challenges of Immigration between Africa and Europe

Chair: Mary Boyington

 

 

Seth Jolly, Syracuse University: Immigration as the Key Structuring Issue of Party Politics in Europe

 

Kishauna Soljour, San Diego State University: Afrique Sur Seine: Sub-Saharan African Migration and Acculturation in France

 

John Goodman, Syracuse University Strasbourg Center: Citizenship as a Mirage: Diplomatic Challenges and Suspended Citizenship in the Sahel

 

10h30-10h045 coffee break

 

 

10h45 Panel 5

 

Citizenship and identity: Gender and Social Movements

Chair: Carol Faulkner

 

Azra Hromadžić, Syracuse University: A City in Love with the River in Bosnia and Herzegovina

 

Debora Spini, Syracuse University Florence Center: “My Indianness is my religion”: inclusive citizenship and the women protest of Shaheen Bagh, New Delhi

 

Dagmar Wernitznig, University of Ljubijana: Citizenship, Gender, and Post-War Transitions: Historiographical Case Studies of Alien Women

 

12h30 Lunch break sponsored by Syracuse Abroad

            Restaurant Le Jasmin 1 Rue Schimper, 67000 Strasbourg

 

14h00 Round table and debate

 

And then what? New nationalism in Post-national era

 

  With Hélène Quanquin, University of Lille; Carol Faulkner, Syracuse University; Samim Akgönül, University of Strasbourg; Elizabeth Cohen, Syracuse University

16h00 End of the conference and free time in Strasbourg

Paris Writers' Workshop 2022 with WICE this week reading at Red Wheelbarrow

This week of the WICE Paris Writers' Workshop has events for participants and for the public. Don't miss out on the special opportunities that the workshop offers, and please join me both for the FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC READING at the Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore on Thursday night at 6p and for the FREE PANEL TALK Friday evening at FORUM 104, 65006 Paris.

POETRY MASTER CLASS with JENNIFER K DICK: 

READING: FREE TO ALL
30 June—6pm: WICE Paris Writers’ Workshop Faculty & Student Reading at Red Wheelbarrow with Jennifer K Dick (poetry), Lauren Groff (novel), Alecia McKenzie (short story) & Jeffrey Greene (creative nonfiction). These faculty members will be reading at 6pm Thursday the 30th of June and presenting some of their PWW participant workshoppers who will share work, too!

PANEL TALK JULY 1 2022 4pm-6pm: to close this fabulous week on writing in Paris. Please join us for this conversation on WRITING IN PARIS: MIGRATION AND THE ARTS with CRAIG CARLSON, JENNIFER K DICK, MATT JONES and JAKE LAMAR, moderated by KATHLEEN CHURCHILL. Open to the public, but REGISTRATION REQUIRED via the WICE PWW website:

RED WHEELBARROW READING the 19th of June 2022 at 3pm

  READING THE 19TH OF JUNE AT 3PM
AT THE RED WHEELBARROW:
ALEXANDER DICKOW
JENNIFER K DICK
BISWAMIT DWIBEDY
& LAURA MULLEN

 

The Red Wheelbarrow
9 & 11 rue de Medici
75006 Paris
M° Odéon, Cluny or RER B Luxembourg

BIOS:

Alexander Dickow is the author of 8 books—most recently Le premier souper (La Volte, 2021) & The Appetites (Madhat, Inc, 2018). He writes with equal versatility in both English & French as well as in a combination of the two. He has also translated 2 books & edited 2 critical volumes. For more, see: https://www.alexdickow.net/

Jennifer K Dick is the author of 4 collections of poetry & 6 chap/artbooks. She directs the department of English at Université de Haute Alsace, France. She will be reading from That Which I Touch Has No Name (Black Spring Press Group, 2022) & artbooks from Estepa Editions, France. For more, see https://jenniferkdick.blogspot.com  

Biswamit Dwibedy is the author of 6 collections of poetry published in India & the United States, including Hubble Gardener (Spuyten Duyvil, 2018). He is the founder & editor of Anew Print, a small press that publishes limited-edition chapbooks from writers in India & abroad, & he edited selections of Indian poetry in translation from 7 different regional languages for Aufgabe in 2015. He teaches at The American University of Paris.

Laura Mullen is the author of 8 books of poetry (most recently Complicated Grief, Solid Objects 2015). Her translations from the French include Hero by Véronique Pittolo (Black Square Editions, 2018). Mullen is currently the Kenan Professor of the Humanities in Creative Writing at Wake Forest University’s Department of English. She will be reading recent translations alongside the French. For more see: https://www.lauramullen.biz/