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Dear Readers,
For any of you near Rochester, NY, we're kicking off our new season of the Reading the World Conversation Series next Monday, February 21. Below, you'll find the full info on Monday's event, as well as a quick preview of the other events we have on the schedule this spring:
Reading the World Conversation Series:
Samuel Hazo & Nirvana Tanoukhi
Monday. February 21, 6:00 p.m.
Plutzik Library (in Rush Rhees Library), University of Rochester
(Presented by the Department of English. Free and open to the public.)
Samual Hazo—author, translator of Lebanese and Palestinian poetry, founder of the National Poetry Forum—will discuss art and translation, and read from his new poetry collection, Like a Man Gone Mad.
Nirvana Tanoukhi—expert in Arab and African literature, fellow at Harvard's W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research—will dissect “How Translators Became Traitors,” reconsidering the limits and scope of the translator's agency to broker cultural exchanges.
Then, our guest speakers will join a short roundtable and Q&A about translation and Middle Eastern literature—including John Michael and Dan Beaumont.
There's event more info on our website.
Or you can check out the full details on Facebook.
And here’s a bit of info on the other Reading the World events we have scheduled this spring:
Wednesday, April 13, 7:30 p.m.
Sloan Auditorium, Goergen Hall, University of Rochester
(Presented by the Skalny Center. Free and open to the public.)
Piotr Sommer & Bill Martin: Polish Poetry and Translation:
Piotr Sommer (world-renowned Polish poet and translator) will read from his work and discuss Polish literature and translation with Bill Martin, Polish translator and former Literary Program Manager at the Polish Cultural Institute in New York.
Wednesday, April 27, 6:00 p.m.
Welles-Brown Room, Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester
(Free and open to the public)
Thomas Pletzinger & Ross Benjamin:
One of Germany’s hottest young authors, Thomas Pletzinger has received great praise for his novelistic debut, Funeral for a Dog, which is now available in Ross Benjamin’s English translation. The two of them will discuss this book, the vibrant new generation of German writers, and world literature in general.
Monday, May 2, 7:00 p.m.
Writers & Books, Rochester, NY
(Free and open to the public)
Featuring: Amélie Nothomb, Carsten Jensen, and Marcelo Figueras. (More details to come!)
Hope to see you there!
Chad W. Post
Publisher & Director
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