An interdisciplinary approach to the global Southwest and Southeast Asia, North Africa, and North America.
Literatures of Annihilation, Exile, and Resistance, founded by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi in 2020, is a research collective, conversation series, and digital archive dedicated to contemporary literature shaped by exile, transnational migration, and human rights violations. The series brings Southwest and Southeast Asian and North African writers and artists into sustained dialogue with American writers and scholars to imagine new modes of literary production across borders. Developed as a global public humanities project in partnership with institutes and initiatives both within and beyond the University of Notre Dame, it has hosted writers such as Ammiel Alcalay, Elias Khoury, Isabella Hammad, Karan Mahajan, Aatish Taseer, Nadia Owusu, Sinan Antoon, Brandon Hobson, Noor Naga, Kaveh Akbar, Solmaz Sharif, Roger Reeves, Moustafa Bayoumi, Hannah Lillith Assadi, Aria Aber, Jan Jamil Kochai, and Deborah Taffa among others.
An interactive map of our network
Interact with a map visualizing the personal migration routes of featured guests in our lecture series, and members of our research collective.
