Friday, June 11th, 2021 08:30-10:00 PST / 09:30-11:00 MST/CST / 10:30-12:00 CDT / 11:30-13:00 EST / 17:30-19:00 CEST:

“Because we need each other”: A Roundtable on Black-Indigenous Solidarities

Dr. Otoniya J Okot Bitek is a poet scholar. Her 100 Days (U Alberta Press 2016), a collection of poetry on how to remember the 1994 Rwanda Genocide, won the 2017 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry and the INDIEFAB Book of the Year (Poetry) Award. It was also nominated for several writing prizes. Juliane’s most recent academic contributions include: 

• “What Choices Between Nightmares: Intersecting Local, Global and Intimate Stories of Pain in Peacebuilding” Peace Building and the Arts, Palgrave/MacMillan (2020);

• “Conversations at the Crossroads: Indigenous and Black Writers Talk”, Ariel: A Review of International English Literature (2020);

• “Colonial Intent as Treachery: A Poetic Response”, Critical African Studies (due 2021). 

Dr. Bitek teaches writing and humanities at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design on the unceded, ancestral and traditional lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations in Vancouver, Canada.