SPEAKING TOPICS
Keynotes, Conversations & Panels
01 / Literary Nonfiction and Storytelling
How personal experience, memory and testimony can become literature without losing their human complexity.
02 / Journalism, Testimony and Public Narratives
Who gets to tell a story, how public narratives are created and what disappears when human lives are reduced to headlines.
03 / Women, Children and Everyday Life in Conflict
How war and political instability enter homes, relationships, childhood and the routines of everyday life.
04 / War, Trauma and the Body
How conflict, power and memory are carried through the body, particularly in women’s lived experiences.
05 / Memory, Identity and Belonging
How family histories, collective memory, displacement and place shape the ways people understand themselves and where they belong.
06 / Home, Displacement and Exile
What happens to the idea of home when geography, memory and belonging no longer exist in the same place.
07 / Cultural Dialogue Between Europe and the Middle East
How literature, journalism and cultural work can create deeper encounters between societies often represented to one another through politics and crisis.