CSER Seminar Room
420 Hamilton
Join the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER) on Friday, May 2nd at 6PM in 420 Hamilton for our final installment of Scholarship as Practice, a new programming series at CSER that focuses on how our academic disciplines influence and inform our lived practices.
This event features Monica Sok (English, Barnard), the author of A Nail the Evening Hangs On (Copper Canyon Press, 2020) and Year Zero (Poetry Society of America, 2016). Her early poems mythologize her family’s experiences during the Khmer Rouge regime, while also addressing the role of U.S. imperialism in Cambodia. Through the lens of a second generation daughter, Monica explores growing up with familial silence and comes to terms with intergenerational trauma, passed down by a family of genocide survivors. Her poetry embraces the fragments of collective memory and builds toward wholeness and reclamation.
Dinner provided!
