Brown Bag Biography with Chen Lili

October 13, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Mānoa Campus, Biomed B-104 and Zoom Add to Calendar

The Center for Biographical Research presents: / “The Representation of Space in Edward Said’s Out of Place” / Chen Lili, PhD Student in Institute of World Literature, Peking University / How does Edward Said represent the home as a space to discipline and isolate the individual? How does the campus function as an ideological enclave to regulate students? Chen Lili will explore these questions through a textual analysis of Out of Place, a memoir in which Said recounts early life experiences and grapples with his Palestinian, Christian, and American identities. / Chen Lili, a PhD student at Peking University, specializes in American immigrant autobiography. She is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Biographical Research at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. / Cosponsored by Hamilton Library, the Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution, the School of Communication & Information, the Academy for Creative Media, the Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge, and the Departments of Political Science, Ethnic Studies, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies / Thursday, October 13 / BIOMED B-104 & Zoom / 12 noon to 1:15PM HST / Zoom link: https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/94072405841 / Zoom Meeting ID: ​940 7240 5841 / Password: 438940


Event Sponsor
Center for Biographical Research, Mānoa Campus

More Information
Caroline Zuckerman, (808) 956-3774, gabiog@hawaii.edu, http://blog.hawaii.edu/cbrhawaii/, Chen Lili Brown Bag Biography (PDF)

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