March 25: How to Write About War

Mar 25, 2022  Are you shocked and distressed about the way in which war and displacement is being represented, reported and talked about right now? Think through this difficult topic with these writers, journalists, activists, scholars. Bhakti Shringarpure, Nadifa Mohamed, Suchitra Vijayan and Billy Kahora intervene in the moral and political crisis around the writing, reporting, representing and filming of war and all the extraordinary violence, plunder and displacement it perpetuates.  Watch the conversation here:   Bhakti Shringarpure is a writer and educator who co-founded and edited Warscapes magazine for ten years before it transitioned into the Radical Books Collective. Her book Cold War Assemblages: Decolonization to Digital looks at the ways in which the Cold War thwarted decolonization movements in colonized regions and used soft power to shape their literary cultures. Nadifa Mohamed is an award-winning Somali-British writer. She has published three novels and they all ce