Lesung und Gespräch: Hannah Michell mit Senthuran Varatharajah

In the organizer's words:

What breaks first when courage meets fear? How can resistance exist quietly and still be heard? Current PicadorProf Hannah Michell invites us to explore the small, invisible acts that reach far beyond themselves, the stories that refuse to be forgotten, and the risks of speaking out. Moderated by Senthuran Varatharajah.

What happens when the fight for truth becomes a fight for stories?

We often think of activism as something loud and visible: Demonstrations, speeches and large acts of resistance. But stories are where power first takes hold: in what is remembered and in what is erased. Writing therefore means resisting forgetting and contesting history itself.

Current #PicadorProf Hannah Michell and host Senthuran Varatharajah invite you to a conversation and reading about writing as a site of resistance and how fiction can reveal the struggles for memory and truth.

Born in England and raised in Seoul, Michell studied anthropology and philosophy at Cambridge and teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.

In her acclaimed novel Excavations, named one of the best crime novels of 2023 by LitHub and Publishers Weekly, Michell explores what it means to speak in times of silence and uncover what has been deliberately buried.

This event reflects on how art does more than accompany activism. It transforms it and reshapes the narratives that define what we dare to imagine as possible.

• When: November 25, 6:00 pm
• Admission: 17:30
• Where: Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig

Free admission! Secure your free seat now!

The Picador Guest Professorship is made possible by the University of Leipzig, American Studies Leipzig, the DAAD Artists-in-Residence Program and Holtzbrinck Berlin. The event takes place in cooperation with EDIT Magazine.