{"id":857,"date":"2021-04-30T16:55:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T16:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.english.cam.ac.uk\/research\/plantlife\/?page_id=857"},"modified":"2021-06-02T18:17:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T18:17:35","slug":"jason-allen-paisant-3-june-2020","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.english.cam.ac.uk\/research\/plantlife\/jason-allen-paisant-3-june-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Allen-Paisant: 3 June 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"315\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.english.cam.ac.uk\/research\/plantlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Thinking-with-trees-3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.english.cam.ac.uk\/research\/plantlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Thinking-with-trees-3.jpeg 315w, https:\/\/www.english.cam.ac.uk\/research\/plantlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Thinking-with-trees-3-189x300.jpeg 189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our first visiting speaker this term is Jason Allen-Paisant, Lecturer in Caribbean Poetry and Decolonial Thought, and Director of the Institute for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, at the University of Leeds. He is also a poet and will be reading from, and discussing, his forthcoming collection Thinking with Trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:28px\"><span style=\"color:#6a875e\" class=\"has-inline-color\">\u2666 \u2666 \u2666<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.english.cam.ac.uk\/research\/plantlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Allen-Paisant-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1052\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.english.cam.ac.uk\/research\/plantlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Allen-Paisant-1.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.english.cam.ac.uk\/research\/plantlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Allen-Paisant-1-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.english.cam.ac.uk\/research\/plantlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Allen-Paisant-1-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption>Dr Jason Allen-Paisant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Allen-Paisant is a Lecturer in Caribbean Poetry and Decolonial Thought, with joint appointments in the University of Leeds&#8217;s School of English and the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies. He is also currently the Director of the Institute for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies. He explores the ways in which Afro-diasporic artists and communities shape their futures through embodied, living philosophies. His work is deeply concerned with poetry; its embodied, spatialized, sensed ontologies; and the overlaps between poetry and philosophy. Also, his creative writing (poetry, memoir, critical life writing)&nbsp;addresses issues of time, race, class, and the environmental conditions underpinning Black identity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our first visiting speaker this term is Jason Allen-Paisant, Lecturer in Caribbean Poetry and Decolonial Thought, and Director of the Institute for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, at the University of Leeds. He is also a poet and will be reading from, and discussing, his forthcoming collection Thinking with Trees. \u2666 \u2666 \u2666 Dr Allen-Paisant is a Lecturer in Caribbean Poetry and Decolonial Thought, with joint appointments in the University of Leeds&#8217;s School of English and the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies. He is also currently the Director of the Institute for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies. 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