History Transposed: Recent Episodes
Jennifer Moss
Stories about how ideas travel like wildfire, morphing as they go -- featuring people, fictional and otherwise, who have transposed themselves across time and/or geographical space.
Jen Moss interviews Dr. Ghada Alatrash about contemporary Syrian protest poetry. Dr. Alatrash is a Syrian-Canadian academic, researcher, writer and translator. She has translated poetry for Syrian and Lebanese poets. She is currently translating a Syrian novel that speaks to lived realities of women in her hometown of Sweida, in Southern Syria, written by novelist Najat Abdul Samad ... Ghada has a PhD in Educational Research, Languages and Diversity from the University of Calgary and currently teaches at Mount Royal University in the Women’s and Gender Studies Dept and the Dept of General Education. As part of her work, she hopes to disrupt the hegemonic discourses and help amplify the voices of the silenced through the universal language of poetry, music, and storytelling, and to build communication bridges between East and West. Part of her research speaks to the living experience of the Syrian Diaspora in Canada. Her research was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Doctoral Scholarship. She was also ran as Liberal MP Candidate in Calgary Signal Hill in the 2019 recent Federal Election in Canada.
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After the tragedy in Greece, Ismene, Antigone's less-heroic sister, finds herself looking for comfort at a grief counselling session in an East Vancouver basement suite. It's a reunion of sorts.
The conclusion of the 3 part story of star-crossed medieval lovers Abelard and Heloise, re-imagined in modern day, in the Pacific Northwest.
The story of Abelard and Heloise continues. Transported from medieval times, Heloise is now the Chair of Gender and Women's Studies at a Canadian university, and Abelard a wandering pseudo-Buddhist philosopher. Note: Heloise's "PhD Thesis" is taken from this article by Giles Fraser in The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/24/story-virgin-birth-christianity-mary-sex-femininity
Imagine famed medieval lovers Abelard and Heloise transposed to modern day. Who would they be now? How would their tragic love affair play out?