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Literature's Refuge at the Aegean Borderscape

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
Program in Medieval Studies/Center for South Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Location
Levis Faculty Center, 210
Date
Mar 1, 2025   10:00 am  
Contact
Carol Symes
E-Mail
symes@illinois.edu

William Stroebel (University of Michigan) ~ The Greco-Turkish Population Exchange of 1923 was the first internationally legitimated project of forced deracination in modern history. This talk aims to recover something of the rich refugee literatures that fell through the cracks of the modern border regime, straddling Greek Orthodoxy and Sunni Islam, Greek-script, Arabic-script, and Latin-script literary traditions. 

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