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Jaipur Literature Festival – North Carolina
September 27 @ 5:30 pm - September 28 @ 7:00 pm
The IAH is a cosponsor of this event. Please refer to main organizer’s website for full details.
The Jaipur Literature Festival, held annually in Jaipur, India, travels across countries and continents with a caravan of writers, thinkers, poets, influencers, balladeers and raconteurs.
The festival will be hosted at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, promising an unparalleled celebration of literature, the arts, and culture.
JLF North Carolina’s sponsors include Carolina Performing Arts, UNC Modern Indian Studies Initiative, Carolina Asia Center, and UNC Global.
The festival’s schedule includes a session on Saturday, Sept. 28, “Digital Humanities and AI,” which will be introduced by IAH director Patricia Parker. The speakers include Robert Newman, Rishi Jaitly, and UNC philosopher Thomas Hofweber (FFP ’15, ’25).
On Saturday, Sept. 28, Kumi Silva (FFP ’14, ’22; ALP ’23) will be part of a conversation on “Many Lives: A Passage from India.” In this event, Suketu Mehta and Sayantani Dasgupta speak of multiple levels of belonging and unbelonging as they navigate continents and cultures. In This Land is Our Land, Suketu Mehta evaluates the destructive legacies of colonialism and the fear of the ‘other.’ Sayantani Dasgupta offers fluid definitions of home as she traces her journeys across the world in Brown Women Have Everything.
Registration and ticket information available at the Jaipur Literature Festival website.
