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DESCRIPTION:Abstract \n\nOrganised by the Labour Law and Development Resear
 ch Laboratory and as part of the Slavery and the Law course\, join us for 
 a special reading and discussion of the work of legal poetry Zong! with ac
 claimed poet\, writer\, and lawyer M. NourbeSe Philip.  \n\nZong! is a boo
 k length poem composed entirely from the words of the infamous case report
 \, Gregson v. Gilbert (1783). The captain of the slave ship Zong ordered t
 hat the enslaved be murdered by drowning before seeking insurance cover. A
 s innovative literary work\, Zong! pushes back the boundaries of poetic fo
 rm in which memory\, history\, and law collide and metamorphose. Zong! tel
 ls the story that cannot be told yet must be told. \n\nThe event will be f
 ollowed by a reception. Please register at lldrl.law [at] mcgill.ca Open t
 o all. Come as you are!  \n\nAbout the Speaker  \n\nM. NourbeSe Philip is 
 an acclaimed Canadian writer\, novelist\, essayist\, poet\, and lawyer. Be
 fore devoting her time to writing\, she practiced law for seven years in T
 oronto. She writes both non-fiction and fiction and has published renowned
  works such as She Tries Her Tongue\; Her Silence Softly Breaks\, Harriet’
 s Daughter\, and BlanK.  \n\nShe has received numerous awards including th
 e Chalmers Award in 2002\, among other Ontario Arts Council grants. In 199
 5\, she was the recipient of the Toronto Arts Council award in writing and
  publishing. M. NourbeSe Philip also won\, in 1988\, the prestigious prize
  Casa de las Americas for her book\, She Tries Her Tongue. More recently\,
  M. NourbeSe Philip was the 2020 recipient of PEN/Nabokov Award for Achiev
 ement in International Literature\, as well as the 2021 recipient of the C
 anada Council for the Arts’ lifetime achievement award\, the Molson Prize\
 , for her “invaluable contributions to literature.” Zong! was named the 20
 21 winner of World Literature Today’s 21 Books for the 21st Century. \n
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LOCATION:McGill Faculty of Law\, New Chancellor Day Hall\, Maxwell Cohen Mo
 ot Court\, Room 100
SUMMARY:Slavery and the Law Speaker Series – M. NourbeSe Philip
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/channels/fr/channels/event/slavery-and-law-speake
 r-series-m-nourbese-philip-355315
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