Creative Conversations: Isis Semaj-Hall
Creative Conversations: Isis Semaj-Hall
Creative Conversations with the Beniba Centre for Slavery Studies
Date: Thursday 23 March 2023
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Venue: Joseph Black Building Room 305 (Carnegie)
Category: Public lectures
Speaker: Dr Isis Semaj-Hall
Website: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-conversations-isis-semaj-hall-tickets-558596746907
Dr. Isis Semaj-Hall is the Riddim Writer. She is a literary scholar, decolonial feminist, and cultural analyst with a creative practice that is nurtured by sound. As the Riddim Writer, she creates sound art and hosts the podcast “For Posterity” where she interviews Caribbean writers, musicians, visual artists, and inspiring citizens. As a Caribbean storytelling advocate, she has dubbed poetry and published non-fiction and fiction works. She is also co-founder and editor of the online literary magazine PREE: Caribbean Writing.
With a commitment to opening-up access, her cultural analysis and critical scholarship have been published in peer-reviewed academic journals, in non-academic outlets, and can be heard on the 2022 Carnegie Hall produced Afrofuturism podcast. She is currently completing her monograph “Storytelling Meets Caribbean Futurism in Infinite Dub,” a critical exploration of word-sound-power, deep listening, environmental wisdom, and Caribbean identities.
Dr. Semaj-Hall is the Caribbean literature and popular culture specialist in the Department of Literatures in English at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus in Kingston, Jamaica.
This event is co-organised with the Beniba Centre for Slavery Studies at the University of Glasgow. Please visit their webpage for more information.
Creative Conversations is funded by the Ferguson Bequest. Professor Thomas Ferguson (1900-1977), Henry Mechan Chair of Public Health (1944-64), bequeathed his estate to the University, with the instruction that the money should be used to foster the social side of University life.