Movement Beyond Limit(s)
With support from the SOAS Centre for Cultural, Literary, and Postcolonial Studies (CCLPS), I co-organised “Movement Beyond Limit(s),” a postgraduate conference at SOAS, University of London (London, UK) on May 10, 2024. The organising commitee welcomed explorations of ‘movement’—from the movement of ideas across time and space to embodied mobility—across disciplines, practices, and geographies.
Our conference brought together over 20 scholars and creative practitioners from around the world in a day-long, hybrid program, which included artist conversations, teach-outs, archival mediations, pedagogical theory, dance as social cartography, and more.
You can watch selected presentations above and on Vimeo, and learn more about the conference here.
Massachusetts Poetry Festival
2023 Massacusetts Poetry Festival presents Bridging the Gap: Mass Poetry Festival Virtual Lead-Up Events
April 30, 2023
Purchase the anthology here.
Changemaker Authors Conference
April 29–30, 2023
Panel: Writing for Social Change, featuring Zeyn Joukhadara, zakia henderson-brown, Taté Walker, and Jhani Randhawa (moderator)
Conference description: Co-presented by Narrative Initiative and the Unicorn Authors Club, the inaugural 2023 Changemaker Authors Conference gathered together a groundbreaking lineup of BIPOC authors, activists, and publishing experts in conversations and panels, virtually and over two days, with a goal to orient movement organizers and social justice workers to the process of writing and publishing books.
Thinking Its Presence
March 30–April 2, 2023
Co-presented by the Pomona College Department of English and the Benton Museum of Art (with support from Pomona College, the Claremont Colleges, and Kaya Press)
Panel: Environmental Writing from an Asian American Standpoint & Ecologies of Grief Panel and Performance feautring Rajnesh Chakrapani, Jessica Kashiwabara, and Jhani Randhawa
Singapore Literature Festival
October 2022 (Co-presented by the Postcolonial, Race and Diaspora Studies Colloquium and the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU)
New York University:
Diasporic Poetics—Panel Discussion with Timothy Yu, Anthony Vahni Capildeo, Chris Campanioni, and Nazry Bahrawi (moderated by Jhani Randhawa)
Panel description:
In Diasporic Poetics: Asian Writing in the United States, Canada, and Australia, poetry scholar Timothy Yu argues that “racialized and nationally bounded "Asian" identities often emerge from transnational political solidarities, from "Third World" struggles against colonialism to the global influence of the American civil rights movement.” As such, Asian diasporic writers develop and maintain a critical stance towards the idea of the nation-state. Joining Yu in this discussion are three poets and scholars from diverse backgrounds and perspectives, Trinidadian-Scottish poet and non-fiction writer Anthony Vahni Capildeo from the UK, Latin American poet and scholar Chris Campanioni from the US, and Malay Singaporean literary scholar Nazry Bahrawi from Singapore.
1455’s 4th Annual SummerFest
1455’s 4th Annual SummerFest
June 2022
Virtual Panel: “Book Deal Magic” featuring Jen Soriano, Sunu Chandy, and Lauren Taylo (moderated by Jhani Randhawa)
Panel description:
Traditional publishing often seems opaque and inaccessible. Here, four “unicorns”—diverse authors writing for and from marginalized audiences—share their publication pathways, from Big Five imprints to magical small presses. We offer practical tips and ideas for getting support along the journey. Presented in partnership with the Unicorn Authors Club.
More to come...
Stay tuned :)