Can Fiction Help Us Connect in a Time of Crisis?

Join our webinar conversation to hear an author, a humanitarian expert and a literary scholar discuss how fiction can help readers understand and connect to major policy issues in times of crisis. Speakers: Anuk Arudpragasam, author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted A Passage North; Rebecca Vetharaniam Richards, Chief of the Global Network Against Food Crises and former Chief of Emergencies & Transitions for the UN World Food Program; Professor Patrick Deer, New York University (English) and faculty convener of the NYU Cultures of War and the Post-War Research Collaborative; moderated by Professor Adrienne Ghaly (UVA English).