COD 2025 - D1109

Webinar - Cultural Programme - Reading and Media Breakfasts: Ocean Vuong's writing: presences, absences, and all that lies between

This session is designed for literature enthusiasts, educators, and creative writers interested in contemporary poetry and prose, with a focus on themes of memory, identity, and loss in Ocean Vuong's work

1 sessions, start: 09-Aug

Course detail

Year: 2025
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Mr. Luciano Camio
Print course
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 30000.00
Non affiliate
ARS 30000.00

Sessions


Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 09 August 2025 10:00 am 11:30 am

Facilitator/s

Luciano Camio

Luciano Camio has been an educator for the last thirty years. Graduate teacher (INCASUP) and Literary Translator (IES en Lenguas Vivas "Juan R. Fernández"), Lic. in Educational Management (CAECE), took all seminars towards his Master's in Contemporary Literatures in English (UNCuyo). Academic presentations in conferences in Argentina, Chile, Peru, Uruguay, Colombia, England, and the US.
He has taught English Language, Literatures in English, World History and Intercultural Studies at lower secondary and IGCSE and AS/AL classes, and was Head of Secondary School at Academia Argüello, Córdoba. He runs bilingual reading workshops, professional development workshops, and is an external pedagogical consultant for bilingual schools.
This session is designed for literature enthusiasts, educators, and creative writers interested in contemporary poetry and prose, with a focus on themes of memory, identity, and loss in Ocean Vuong's work
Explore Vuong's treatment of presence and absence in his poetry and prose.
Analyze how silence, fragmentation, and space function as literary devices.
Discuss themes of migration, family, and queerness in Vuong's writing.
Examine Vuong’s stylistic choices and their emotional impact on the reader.
The role of memory and forgetting in Vuong’s work.
Language as both a bridge and a barrier in diasporic writing.
Vuong's use of form, fragmentation, and white space.
The interplay between intimacy, trauma, and resilience in his poetry and fiction.
Close reading of selected passages from Night Sky with Exit Wounds and On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous.
Close reading and textual analysis of selected poems and prose excerpts.
Group discussion on Vuong's themes and stylistic innovations.
Interactive exploration of absence and silence in writing.
Collective and individual textual interventions
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