Congratulations to CoHaB Early Stage Researcher, Alba de Bejar Muiños who this summer has been awarded the prestigious Prix Barbara-Godard essay prize offered by the ACLQ ACQL/Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences Conference in Ottawa, for her essay on the work of Chinese diasporic and American born Canadian Sci-Fi writer, Larissa Lai.

The photograph below is of Professor Janet Wilson and Alba’s participation in the most recent CoHaB Summer School which was held at SOAS, London (10- 14 April 2015).  I went to the first day of the Summer School and saw the thought-provoking keynote lecture by Professor Nira Yuval-Davies on ‘Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging’ as well as Benjamin Dix’s presentation on using the graphic novel form to represent contemporary human rights and social issues, followed by an invigorating session on student activism by SOAS undergraduates.  Janet gave the keynote lecture on the second day which was on, ‘Wavering ‘between two worlds’: liminality in diaspora writing.’

Keynote by Prof. Janet Wilson (Chair: Alba de Béjar Muiños), 11 April 2015.