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SUMMARY:EACW Students' Choice Event: Dr. Suryia Nayak (Salford): 'Hosting
  a Dinner Party with Audre Lorde' 
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DESCRIPTION:Students in the Department of English\, American Studies and 
 Creative Writing have voted to invite Dr. Suryia Nayak to speak in the D
 epartment. \n\nMonday 31st March\, 4.30 - 6pm\nVenue: G20\, Mansfield Co
 oper\nFollowed by a drinks reception \n\nMy workshop offers a method of 
 talking with Audre Lorde rather than a talking about Audre Lorde. As an 
 academic and activist\, I often construct conversations with Lorde\, abo
 ut complex issues and ideas. For example\, in creating feminist Black wo
 men-only services and spaces\, Lorde’s words helped me grapple with the 
 issue that ‘black feminism is not white feminism in blackface’.  In my w
 ork I use (and recommend) the practice of imagining that I am hosting a 
 dinner party where I put text and theory in conversation across diverse 
 temporal and spatial spectrums that juxtapose a range of visions\, stand
 points and theoretical approaches - imagine Audre Lorde\, bell hooks\, T
 he Combahee River Collective\, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak\, Jacques Derr
 ida\, Simone de Beauvoir\, Judith Butler\, Toni Morrison and Frantz Fano
 n chatting together! Drawing on a literary tradition of dialogue\, conve
 rsation and interviews\, as mirrored in Lorde’s work\, my imaginary dinn
 er party method straddles the fictional and non-fictional in the sense t
 hat the actual words /texts of the scholars cited are juxtaposed within 
 a fictional frame. A kind of intertexuality in action\, playing with con
 cepts such as the speech act\, speaking position and intersectionality t
 hat deliberately transgresses theoretical borders.\n\nDr. Suryia Nayak i
 s an academic\, psychoanalytic psychotherapist\, and group analyst. Sury
 ia has over 40 years’ experience of grassroot intersectional activism to
  end racialised misogyny\, including rape\, forced migration\, trafficki
 ng\, modern slavery and female genital mutilation. Suryia insists on the
  application of Black feminist theory and text to the psychological and 
 political impact of oppression.  \n\nJust so we can keep track of number
 s\, please sign up to attend here: https://forms.office.com/e/T96y10dQra
  \n
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:G20\, Mansfield Cooper Building\, Manchester
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