"Possessions: A Memoir of Transformation" Davina Quinlivan

Newport Rising Hub, 170 Commercial Street, Newport, NP20 1JN
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About "Possessions: A Memoir of Transformation" Davina Quinlivan

A powerful, compelling story of fragmenting and rebuilding from the inside out.

After two decades of academic research and undergraduate teaching Davina Quinlivan, and the world of university education, were approaching crisis; teaching online, ticking boxes for other people's diversity criteria, stuck, like so many others, in a cycle of fixed term contracts. Yet as a child of Anglo-Burmese parents, growing up in West London, academia had promised a way out. Something better.

This is her powerful, compelling story of fragmenting and rebuilding from the inside out, one that is filled with the voices of both Burma and Southall. Haunted by the ghosts of colonialism, Davina Quinlivan beautifully lays bare our blind spots as we grapple with decolonisation and the hypocrisies within our institutions of education.

This event is part of the Newport Festival of Words, 20th - 22nd March 2026.

Website https://www.newportwordfest.co.uk/