Thanatic Ethics Winter Webinar Series: Valerie Loichot on Words Sculpted Out of Grief

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Title: Words Sculpted Out of Grief: Unritual in Édouard Glissant, M. Nourbese Philip, and Jason deCaires Taylor Speaker: Valérie Loichot (Emory University) Date: 12 February, 2021 (Friday) Time: 14:30 – 15:30 GMT  Please register for the talk via Eventbrite (https://www.eventbrite.hk/e/137902358667). Zoom details will be emailed to you. This talk focuses on a paradox: in the aftermath of what the author calls the unritual (Water Graves, 2020) poets, like sculptors, use words like rocks; conve..