One section within The Milk of Dreams is inspired by sci-fi author Ursula K. Le Guin and her 1986 essay The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, which thinks of the birth of technology and the writing of narrative through the metaphor of containers used for providing sustenance and care: bags, sacks, and vessels. Taking up this presentation as a point of departure, this panel will reflect upon the metaphor of the vessel, asking what a vessel might be.
Keynote by Christina Sharpe, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University, Toronto.
Conversation between Rinaldo Walcott, Professor, Women and Gender Studies, University of Toronto; Canisia Lubrin, poet, fiction and nonfiction writer and Assistant Professor in School of English and Theatre Studies at University of Guelph, Ontario; and Wu Tsang, participating artist at the 59th International Art Exhibition; moderated by Christina Sharpe.
Audience Q&A.
