Midis littéraires

September 25 to September 29, 2023

3rd edition of the Midis littéraires de l’EDLD in collaboration with the Festival International de la Littérature (FIL)

September 25, 2023

TELLING YOUR POETRY

How do poetry and life interact?

What interplay between body and voice, words and experience?

Authors: Mykalle Bielinski, Gabriel Robichaud (virtual), Ouanessa Younsi
Host: Zéa Beaulieu-April

September 26, 2023

AND IF LIVING BEINGS WROTE NOVELS? THE ECOLOGY OF FUTURISM

Forests burn, artificial intelligence writes novels, resistance movements face the tragicomedy of crises and dramas broadcast on YouTube. What is writing, what is thinking today?

Authors: David Clerson, Marie-Andrée Gill (virtual), Dalie Giroux, Yamen Manaï (virtual)
Host: Thomas H.-Marsot

September 27, 2023

WHAT IS DECOLONIAL LITERATURE?

Writing in language, around language, narrating differently, making magic, excavating the memory of objects. Can literature escape the colonial?

Authors: Kacey Chagnon, Karim Kattan (virtual), Ayavi Lake, Louis-Karl Picard-Sioui (virtual)
Host: Sayaka Araniva-Yanez

September 28, 2023

LITERATURES OF THE IMAGINARY

Anticipating, imagining, branching off from the plausible to return to the true.

Four authors in conversation about literatures of the imaginary.

Authors: Karoline Georges (virtual), Jean-Pierre Gorkynian, Mélodie Joseph, Gary Victor (virtual)
Host: Mathieu Lauzon-Dicso

September 29, 2023

WRITING BEYOND SOLITUDES

Translating beyond solitude and exile. To be read in the language of the other.

What can translation do in a world where everyone lives in their own echo chamber?

Authors: Vania Jimenez, Samira Negrouche (virtual), Dimitri Nasrallah, Heather O’Neill
Host: Silvia Costea