Asako Serizawa on her Book "Inheritors"
Channel: Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences
Date: 2021-11-19

Spanning over a century, Inheritors is a collection of interconnected stories tracing five generations of a family fragmented across colonial and post-colonial Asia and the US by the Pacific side of the Second World War. Written in myriad styles and perspectives, this hybrid book kaleidoscopically explores the legacies and consequences of imperialism and war, and the inevitable question of responsibility, individual and collective, as we continue to cohabit the rapidly contracting multiracial, multiethnic, and multicultural world we have inherited. This event will include a reading from Inheritors and a discussion around the interrelationship between technology, science, and the imperial enterprise, and the thorny ethical issues endemic to the cultural construction/imaginative writing of unresolved, intergenerational, and supranational histories of ongoing collective violence and trauma.

The CELLS winter speaker series brings together scholars and writers to discuss the significance of the literary imagination in (non)fictional accounts of science and technology, as well as in theoretical debates in academia and beyond. These evening lectures are hosted online via Zoom in English. They are open to the public (registration required) and free of charge. Live captioning will be provided. 

Series Moderators: Matthew Sample (CELLS) and Anna Nguyen (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences)

https://www.cells.uni-hannover.de/en/speakerseries/