We are delighted
to welcome Dr. Anise Vance as our next colloquium speaker on Wednesday 1st
November. This event is co-sponsored with UBC Geography\, Creativ
e Writing and St. John’s College.We are delighted
to welcome Dr. Anise Vance as our next colloquium speaker on Wednesday 1st
November. This event is co-sponsored with UBC Geography\, Creativ
e Writing and St. John’s College.
Hope at the Ends o f World: Resistance and Belonging in Moments of Rupture
Anise Vance's debut novel\, Hush Harbor\, explores is sues of resistance\, belonging\, and justice in the context of police viole nce on black bodies. In this talk\, he will expand on those themes by explo ring moments of civil unrest and rupture -- moments that destabilize concep tions of belonging. To that end\, expect an exploratory conversation relyin g on stories that cross geographic boundaries\, social groups\, and time pe riods.
Anise Vance is a writer from the A frican and Iranian diasporas. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Rutg ers University-Camden. As a Mitchell Scholar\, he received an MPhil in Geog raphy from Queen's University Belfast. He is a graduate of Dartmouth Colleg e and currently lives in North Carolina with his wife and two children.
Anise currently serves as the Assistant Director of the City of Durham's Community Safety Department (DCSD)\, a department formed after the murder of George Floyd\, and on a foundation set by years of community advocacy an d building. In 2022\, the Durham Community Safety Department (DCSD) launche d four 911 crisis response programs—collectively known as HEART (Holistic E mpathetic Assistance Response Teams)—to divert calls away from law enforcem ent and meet the needs of people in crisis with behavioral health expertise . In its first fifteen months of operation\, and having responded to over 8 \,000 calls\, HEART has become a leading national alternative response mode l. For more\, please visit DCSD's website and dashbo ard\, watch this clip from CNN’s Sanjay Gupta\, listen to this segmen t on NPR (WUNC)\, or read this piece from The Assembly to learn more.
This event will take place in-person and on Zoom\, on Wednesday 1st November from 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Pacific.
No registratio n is necessary for in-person attendance\, in St. John’s College Social Loun ge (2111 Lower Mall).
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