Wed, Sep 18, 2024, 6:00 PM – Wed, Nov 6, 2024, 7:00 PM
There is hardly a concept as unifying – or divisive – as language. Words are powerful tools, ones that build nations and crumble them to the ground, that shape our thoughts, stories and actions, that can stoke the fire of a revolutionary idea or fertilise the ground for violence and prejudice. Words give shape to our dreams and nightmares, our pasts and futures, our realities. But once meaning is imbued, can it be taken away? Can the politics of language change through loss of meaning, and what happens in this new (post)geography?