Events

We will continue to explore multiple ways to engage with communities, both locally and globally, during this (not-yet-over) pandemic. 

JUNE 2023

 Book Launches / Celebrations ! 

Banner has three sections: Yellow background with trace logo, off-white with book title river in an ocean and picture of book cover, blue ocean background with quote from Francoise Verges: Translation, here, is decolonial feminist work

TORONTO 

(with Another Story Bookshop)

Thursday, June 8 | Innis College Courtyard/ Cafe (UT) | 7-9 pm

Readings and Conversations with:

Otoniya J. Okot Bitek, Nedra Rodrigo, Suneela Mubayi, Geetha Sukumaran and Norah Alkharashi, with Nuzhat Abbas

* As seating is limited, please RSVP

** we invite you to mask if it gets crowded, or if we move indoors (in case of rain).

 

VANCOUVER 

June  (TBD) with Upstart & Crow (online)

 

MAY 2023

Online Conversation Series May 5-26/ FRIDAYS 12-2 pm EST

trace: Unsettling Translation / river in an ocean

FRIDAY May 26: Geetha Sukumaran, Rahat Kurd & Gopika Jadeja

trace: Unsettling Translation / river in an ocean. Off-white, blue and yellow background with text and three black and white portraits of the presenters: Geetha Sukumaran, Rahat Kurd and Gopika Jadeja

FRIDAY May 19: Nedra Rodrigo, Lisa Ndejuru & Norah Alkharashi

trace: Unsettling Translation/ river in an ocean Event Poster. Blue, off-white and yellow background with text and three black and white photos of presenters: Lisa Ndejuru, Nedra Rodrigo and Norah Alkharashi

FRIDAY MAY 12: Yasmine Haj, Iryn Tushabe, Suneela Mubayi

(& Françoise Vergès)

trace: Unsettling Translation/ river in an ocean-Event poster. May 12 with Yasmine Haj, Iryn Tushabe and Suneela Mubayi. Blue, off white and yellow backgrounds with black and white photos of presenters.

FRIDAY May 5: Khairani Barokka and Otoniya J. Okot Bitek

Francoise Vergès joined us for May 12 session instead

trace: Unsettling Translation/ river in an ocean Event Poster. Blue, off-white and yellow background with three black and white photos of presenters.

APRIL 2023

trace: translating [x] celebrations/ readings for April Poetry Month

Friday 4/28 | 12-2 pm EST | ARABIC/ENGLISH:

Saturday 4/22 | 11 am-1 pm EST (online) | TAMIL/ENGLISH

 

 

Lives Lost: In Search of a New Tomorrow

Summer 2020

Scott Neigh (Talking Radical Radio) interviews Shahrzad Mojab on her work with political prisoners and Saeed Yousef's Lives Lost: In Search of a New Tomorrow.

Listen to podcast

Spring 2020 (cancelled)

May 4-6, Abolition Convergence 2020. Toronto. Shahrzad Mojab discusses Lives Lost: In Search of a New Tomorrow in the context of global state violence, critical memorialization and ethical pedagogy.

May 28-30, Happenings Festival. 918 Bathurst, Toronto. trace book table 

Fall 2019

Saeed Yousef and Shahrzad Mojab discussed the importance of poetry and critical memory at the English and Persian book launches of Lives Lost: In Search of a New Tomorrow at the Reclaiming Justice: Memory and the Memorialization of Violence conference at Innis College, University of Toronto

October 26th, 2019 – 5.00 pm /  in English

October 27th, 2019 – 2.00 pm / in Farsi