[Ted Laros]

All are welcome to join our session on “War, Literature, and Human Rights” at the 2025 MLA Annual Convention in New Orleans. The session is an initiative of research group “Literature, Law and Society” and was made possible with the financial support of the Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies:

703 – War, Literature, and Human Rights

 

Sunday, 12 January 2025

8:30 AM – 9:45 AM

• Hilton New Orleans Riverside – Salon 6 (1st Floor)

Presider

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• Ted Laros

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• Open U of the Netherlands

Presentations

Deferred Extermination: Gulliver’s Travels, Drone Warfare, and the Suspension of Human Rights Peter DeGabriele, Mississippi State U

Literary Sumud: Rebuilding ‘Home’ in Atef Abu Saif’s The Drone Eats with Me Daniel O’Gorman, U of Leeds

Overcoming ‘Blank Pages and Silence’: Concrete Universalism in The Book of Collateral DamageCassandra Falke, Arctic U of Norway

Session Information

• Program: Special Sessions
• Subject: Comparative Literature – General

Keywords

• war
• literature
• human rights
• Middle East
• drone warfare

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