Stories of Determination: with Asian Heritage Month keynote speaker Dr. Asma Sayed

A conversation with Dr. Asma Sayed, Canada Research Chair in South Asian Literary and Cultural Studies in the Department of English at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.

Hosted by President Philip Steenkamp and facilitated by Associate Director, Human Rights and EDI Alejandro Campos Garcia.

Literature, film, new media and other modes of cultural production are not singular fields, but interwoven modes of storytelling through which human life and people’s desires and hopes for a better world can be understood.

Using South Asian literary and cultural texts as examples, Sayed:
- explores the role of art and storytelling in advancing social justice and serving as counter-narratives to colonial and Eurocentric discourses
- looks at the ways in which we can critically interpret creative expressions as sites of socio-political change, activism, empowerment and community-building
- questions and explores how post-secondary institutions might not only establish but enact historically marginalized knowledge and creativity to envision transformative pathways to support, uphold and expand community knowledge and build solidarity

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