Lecture and Reading by award-winning David A. Robertson

Dear students and colleagues,

it is my pleasure to invite you to Lecture and Reading by the award-winning Indigenous popular fiction author David A. Robertson on November 8, 2023 (13:00-14:30 CET). This is a hybrid event, please find the Zoom link below. (Poster attached)

We are honored to host David A. Robertson on his first book tour through Germany. This event is organized in collaboration with the TU Dresden High School Outreach program and the TU Dresden Diversity Office. The author will offer a brief lecture contextualizing his work in contemporary Indigenous literatures from Canada and read passages from his award-winning Misewa Saga, followed by a Q&A period. This event is geared toward undergraduate university students and upper year high school students and requires no prior knowledge. Everyone is welcome.

David A. Robertson (*1977) is an award-winning Indigenous author from Canada and member of the Norway House Cree Nation. Since 2008 he has written over 25 books and graphic novels for children and young adults that frequently integrate elements of fantasy, horror, and Indigenous storytelling. He is the recipient and nominee of numerous literary awards, including the Writers’ Union of Canada Freedom to Read Award (2021), the Governor General’s Literary Award (2017), the Beatrice Mosionier Indigenous Writer of the Year Award, the McNally Robinson Best Book for Young People Award, and many more. His most recent works include the Misewa Saga (2022-2023), Black Water: Family, Legacy, and Blood Memory (2020), and The Reckoner Rises (2020-2022) and he has contributed to celebrated anthologies of Indigenous speculative fiction such as Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time (2016), This Place: 150 Years Retold (2019), and Love After the End (2020). Through his writing about Indigenous cultures, communities, and histories, he educates and entertains, telling stories of Indigenous empowerment and futurity. Aside from being a writer he works at the Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre. He lives in Winnipeg together with his wife and five children.

ZOOM LINK:
Topic: David A. Robertson | Lecture, Reading, Q&A
Time: Nov 8, 2023 12:45 PM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna Join Zoom Meetinghttps://tu-dresden.zoom-x.de/j/65594146091?pwd=MXcvTU1yNnQxcXh2SEthd0NFL0JtUT09
Meeting ID: 655 9414 6091
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