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12/5/2006

Migrations of the Mind conference

ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

A day long conference to coincide with International Writers Day and to prefigure the ICA's upcoming exhibition Around the World in Eighty Days.

Writers are the ideas-traffickers of the twenty-first century. Smuggled inside novels, plays and memoirs they transmit thoughts across borders. Migrations of the Mind is a day-long PEN/ICA conference to coincide with International Writers Day and to prefigure the ICA’s upcoming exhibition Around the World in Eighty Days - a day in honour of the literary migrants who fuse cultures, challenge received wisdom, and open up new spaces for everyone to inhabit.

12pm Wild Words In the opening lecture, Jung Chang, author of the international bestseller Wild Swans, describes the fate of her new biography of Mao. Has the book even made it into China - and if so, with what effect? Jung Chang’s work is tightly censored in China, but in some cases these controls are risibly counter-productive.

2pm Women on the Verge of a Cultural Breakdown The Turkish novelist Elif Shafak has been hailed as the new Orhan Pamuk. She joins Croatian writer Dubravka Ugresic - whose The Ministry of Pain was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2006 - and Monica Ali to ask why women find themselves on the front line of cultural collisions.

3.15pm Stages of Defiance Playwrights Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti and Gary Mitchell have both been personally threatened as a result of their controversial theatrical dissections of entrenched cultures. The two have a conversation about why the stage arouses such extreme passions.

5pm East Meets West The Moroccan novelist Tahar Ben Jelloun has long lived in self-imposed exile in Paris. In the closing speech he explores the confrontation between cultures that drives his work.

Opening: 13 May 2006, h.12pm

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The Mall - London

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