On Wednesday, September 25 2024 a student workshop, followed by a public reception, will be held with Native American novelist Tommy Orange at Leiden University!
Student workshop:
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14:45 –15:15 Registration and coffee with the author
15.15 – 16:45 Student Workshop
Hosted by the Futures of Native American Studies at Leiden, the John Adams Institute, North
American Studies, LUCAS, and the JEDI fund.
Graduate students and advanced BA students are invited to apply for a seminar-style
workshop on the contemporary Native American novel with author Tommy Orange, an
enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. Students must read his
latest novel, Wandering Stars (2024) in English or Dutch, in preparation for this discussion.
Wandering Stars is his highly anticipated second book, and it has been longlisted for the
Booker prize. It continues the story of the Star family, who were introduced in his first novel
There There (2018), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. He is a teacher at the
Institute of American Indian Arts, and will lead this workshop on the contemporary Native
American novel.
Interested participants should email j.j.morgan-owens@hum.leidenuniv.nl with your name,
current education status (i.e. your BA or MA program, your thesis proposal), and a statement
of interest in this topic.
Public reception:
17:00-18:30, Faculty Club
Hosted by the Futures of Native American Studies at Leiden, the John Adams Institute, North
American Studies, LUCAS, and the JEDI fund.
The public is invited for a reception with author Tommy Orange, an
enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of
Oklahoma. His latest novel Wandering Stars (2024), now in Dutch
translation, is his highly anticipated second book, longlisted for the
Booker prize. It continues the story of the Star family, who were
introduced in his first novel There There (2018), which was a
finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction.
The reception will include a short reading and remarks by the
author.