Welcome to a K3 seminar with Marie Hållander, Author and Senior Lecturer in Education, Södertörn University. The title of the talk is:

Among the girls and machines of the textile dust: On poetry, textile work and archive.

It will take place on Wednesday, February 19 at 10.15-12.00 in the K3 Open Studio.

Marie Hållander is an author and researcher within philosophy of education. Her debut novel Tjänster i hemmet (2013) is a poetic novel about working in elderly care service. Det omöjliga vittnandet (2017) is a re-written version of her PhD thesis, published  by Eskaton and can be read online for free: http://eskaton.se/?attachment_id=395. The book will be published in English by Palgrave Macmillan (2020). Hållander is also project leader for the literary scene Sjuhärad text, that arranges literary readings around Sjuhärad and is working as a senior lecturer in Education at Södertörn university.

Here is an abstract for the talk:

In the presentation “Among the girls and machines of the textile dust: poetry, textile work and archive”, I will present an artistic, literary, poetic project which deals with textile workers’ history and specifically textile stories from Sjuhärad, the area surrounding Borås. It is a project where I want to understand and write about the conditions for textile workers in this specific area, which is known for its strong connections to the textile industry. The project draws on material of archive searches and interviews with former workers, as well of my own lines and spatial passings in forms of autobiographical elements, since I am situated in this area and history.