PJSA2020 -  Philip Metres, “Shrapnel Maps: Stories Seeking Peace & Justice in Israel-Palestine”
Channel: Peace and Justice Studies Association
Date: 02/10/2020

Thursday, October 1 | 4:00-5:30 PM Pacific | 7:00-8:30pm Eastern

Facilitated by Michelle Collins-Sibley

Opening Keynote: Philip Metres, John Carroll University

“Shrapnel Maps: Stories Seeking Peace & Justice in Israel-Palestine” 

For nearly twenty years, Philip Metres has been actively engaged in the quest for a just peace for Palestinians and Israelis–as an activist, peacemaker, scholar, teacher, and writer. His fourth book of poems, Shrapnel Maps, writes into the wounds of the Israel-Palestine conflict, raising the voices of Palestinians and Israelis as they confront the predicament of injustice and violence, of empire and resistance. Metres will read from the work and reflect on how storytelling and poetry can offer other ways of engaging seeking justice and peace, through the transformational work of the moral imagination.