Silenced memories

Instituto Cervantes Dublín. Garp Estudio

The Colombian writer and historian Javier Ortiz Cassiani and the Nigerian-Irish poet Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi will discuss silenced memories and their representation in literature. This conversation aims to acknowledge the importance of unveiling diverse realities and revitalizing voices that have been obscured by history.

Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi is a writer, editor, and cultural consultant based in Wicklow, Ireland. She is a commissioned poet on the Poetry as Commemoration project, an initiative of the Irish Poetry Reading Archive at UCD Library. Her work is published in The Art of the Glimpse anthology, and she co-edited the Writing Home: The 'New Irish' Poets anthology.

Javier Ortiz Cassiani ia a Colombian author and historian by the University of Los Andes. He has published the books El incómodo color de la memoria [The Uncomfortable Colour of Memory], Un diablo al que llaman tren [A Demon They Call Train] and Bailar con las trompetas del apocalipsis [Dancing to the Trumpets of the Apocalypse]. His interests revolve about memory, discourse, representation, popular culture and historical paradoxes.

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