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Writing and Peace: How Writing Can Contribute to Survival and World Peace

To highlight the unusual co-cultural aspect of this literary gathering, we will present a panel of writers from the U.S., Mexico, and Canada. Their topic could not be more timely or important at this time in our collective lives.

In an interview, Alice Walker said this:

What could [my preoccupations] be but to be of assistance to the world in its dire hour of need? We’ve turned a scary corner, as humans. We may have ruined our nest.

If I write about Palestinians being deprived of water and land, of Aung San Suu Kyi and the precious instruction she is capable of giving us—not only about democracy but also about morality—if I write about violence and war, collards and chickens, I can connect with others who care about these things.

Hopefully, together we can move the discussion of survival, with grace and justice and dignity, forward. We will need to know many different kinds of things to survive as a species worth surviving.

Always an extraordinary conversation!

Moderated by Carmen Rioja

with

Pedro Ángel Palou
Tracy Chevalier
Jane Urquhart