Veranstaltungen/Events 2010

Lesung der ugandischen Autorin Goretti Kyomuhendo (Director, African Writer's Trust)
16 Uhr
Gebäude 23.21., Raum 44B
Moderation: Eun-San Jo

Goretti Kyomuhendo was born in Uganda in 1965. In 1996 she was one of the founder members of the Ugandan Womens Writers' Association FEMWRITE and published her debut novel The First Daughter. She has published a children's book - Different Worlds (1998) - and three more novels: Secrets no more (1999), Whispers from Vera (2002) and Waiting (2007). Kyomuhendo was the first female Ugandan Writer to be invited to the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, she also recieved the first prize from the National Book Trust of Uganda. Today she works as a freelance writer and has published short stories as well as regular columns for "The Monitor" and "The Crusader".

Kim Scott
Centre for International Health
Curtin University of Gechnology, Perth/Australia

16.00 Uhr
Gebäude 23.21, Ebene 00, Raum 44B
Forschungszentrum

What place do Indigenous languages and stories have in contemporary society?
Kim Scott will, using examples from his own literary work and a specific community-based langauge revitalisation project, outline how such texts, rather than being part of "the costumes and curios tourists expect of defeated people", can interact with more conventional narratives to collaboratively heal some of the damage wrought by our shared history.

Kim Scott is a renowned writer of articles, poetry, short stories and novels. His second novel Benang: from the Heart von the Western Australian Premiers Literary Award 1999, the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2000, and the 2001 RAKA Kate Challis Award, one of Australia's most prestigious national awards for indigenous creative artists. Being a descendant of the Noongar people from the south-east coast of Western Australia, he was the first indigenous writer to win the Miles Franklin Award.