On Thursday, Oct. 3 at 6:30, in Herter 301, Prof. Marta Segarra, of the Universitat de Barcelona, will give a lecture on women writers from the Maghreb, women who currently live in Catalunya and have published a corpus in Catalan. The title of her talk is Nacionalismo y postcolonialismo: Escritoras catalanas del Magreb.
Marta Segarra is the co-founder and director of the Centre Dona i Literatura. Gènere, sexualitats, crítica de la cultura at the Universitat de Barcelona. She is also the coordinator of the Càtedra UNESCO Dones, desenvolupament i cultures IP de Literatura i comunitats: una visió des del gènere, and editor-in-chief of the journal Expressions maghrébines, that publishes new, cutting edge research in French and English on literature and other cultural forms —film, music, etc.— rooted in the Maghreb and its diasporas.