Buffalo, NY – The Canisius University 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.
The Borders & Migrations Series initiative at Canisius is a collaborative Ignatian approach by students, faculty and staff to encourage discussion about and engagement with refugee and immigration issues on a global scale. The series is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Campus Ministry, Mission and Identity, Academic Affairs, ArtsCanisius, the Department of Sociology and the Department of Animal Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation.
Please see canisius.edu/border for more information or contact Richard Reitsma, PhD at @email with questions.
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