Description: Literary scholars, cultural critics, and poets discuss The Testaments, Atwood's sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, and interact with audience members about the novel in relation to Atwood's other works and about topics such as consumption, identity, bearing witness, ecopolitics, maternity, poetics, trauma, and historiography.

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Speakers

Laura Birkin, Temple U, Philadelphia

Shelley Boyd, Kwantlen Polytechnic U

Megan Cannella, U of Nevada, Reno

Nicole Lawrence, U of Connecticut, Storrs

Marguerite Raymond, Eastfield C

Lauren Rule Maxwell, The Citadel

Brenda Shaughnessy, Rutgers U, Newark

Presider

Karma Waltonen, U of California, Davis