Z_12-2-21_Fall 2021 Colloquium Series

Submitted by leandrews on Thu, 11/04/2021 - 11:56
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World Languages, Literatures and Cultures
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Fall 2021 Colloquium Series in translation. Edwige Dro Wed, November 3, 11-12:15, Zoom ID: 996 5019 7314; Passcode: 608669 Edwige Dro (translator, activist, writer; Côte d’Ivoire) is a co-founder of the collective Abidjan Lit and the founder of 1949, “a library of women’s writings from Africa and the black world.” She has facilitated, judged, and translated for many writing competitions, and coordinated the Francophone program of Writivism in Uganda. Her stories and essays, published in magazines like Popula, This is Africa and the Johannesburg Review of Books, have been widely anthologized. Bela Shayevich ID: 941 2930 7548; Passcode: 602722 Wed, December 1, 11-12:15, Zoom Bela Shayevich is a visual artist, writer, and translator best known for Svetlana Alexievich’s Secondhand Time. She also co-translated Soviet underground poet Vsevolod Nekrasov’s I Live I See with Ainsley Morse, which was published by Ugly Duckling Presse, and edited Victoria Lomasko’s Other Russias (translated by Thomas Campbell). Her latest book, a translation of Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, will be released in the United States on November 2, 2021. She is currently a student in the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa. https://translation.uiowa.edu/ Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact aron-aji@uiowa.edu in advance.
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Thursday, December 2, 2021 - 01:56
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