Place and Identity: Joanna Eleftheriou & Mia Kankimäki
Originally aired on October 26
Re-release November 30
Sign up/in to register for this event
Longing for travel? Take a virtual journey around the world with memoirists Joanna Eleftheriou and Mia Kankimäki in discussion with Wendy O’Brien. The authors will share their real-life travel adventures from around the world, as told in their acclaimed new books. In This Way Back, Eleftheriou documents her search for identity through a life of travel between her family’s mountain village in Cyprus and her experience growing up in Queens, New York. In The Women I Think About at Night: Traveling the Paths of My Heroes (translated to English by Douglas Robinson), Finnish author Kankimäki blends literature with history in a meditation on life at a crossroads, as she documents her expedition to follow the footsteps of female historical icons. Both books emphasize the personal impacts of place and its imprint on female identity.
Interviewer: Wendy O’Brien
English captioning is available for this video. Please click the ‘CC’ button in the video toolbar to turn it on.
This event is generously supported by the Hellenic Canadian Academic Association of Ontario (HCAAO) and the Hellenic Heritage Foundation (HHF).
