Placing Nonfiction Politics, Poetics, Practices

From the essay, film-making, poetry, documentary, vernacular media, digital archives, memoir and design, nonfiction is increasingly a site of creative, theoretical and analytical interest. This inaugural nonfictionLab Symposium 2013 seeks to place some markers, critical and adventuresome, across the interdisciplinary domain of nonfiction studies.

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Keynote Speakers:

Ross Gibson
'Tell me something I don't already know'
On 'ekphrastic' practices: how to say something that resonates or 'rings true' to an image or an event, but doesn't explain it

Jeff Sparrow
'Against Facts'
On 'fact checking units', conventional prejudices and unquestioned truths