Literature
Conversation & Reading
“The Hollow Pillars of the Law”: Chilean Poetry in the Time of Pinochet
Thu, May 2, 2024
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Conversation & Performance
Performance + Book Talk: Ava Chin “Mott Street”
Wed, May 1, 2024
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Colloquium
Activism in Academia V: Friday Forums | Honors Research Colloquium
Fri, Feb 11, 2022 –
Fri, Apr 1, 2022
Celebration
PEN International: 100 Years Celebrating Literature and Promoting Freedom of Expression
Wed, Nov 17, 2021
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Conversation & Reading
Jacqueline Woodson: A Reading and Conversation
Tue, Mar 9, 2021
6:30 PM – 7:15 PM
Conversation & Series
Translating the Future Finale: “Democracy and Translation” with Natalie Diaz, Marilyn Nelson, & Ken Liu
Thu, Sep 24, 2020
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Conversation & Series
Translating the Future: “Untranslating the Classics,” with Laurie Patton, Gopal Sukhu & Vivek Narayanan
Tue, Sep 1, 2020
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Conversation & Series
Translating the Future: “Translating Trauma” with Ellen Elias-Bursac, Aaron Robertson and Julia Sanches, moderated by Queenie Sukhadia
Tue, Sep 8, 2020
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Conversation & Series
Translating the Future: “Activist Translation,” with Anton Hur, Sevinç Türkkan, and Jen Hofer
Tue, Sep 15, 2020
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Conversation & Series
Translating the Future Finale: “On the Elusive Art of Translation,” with Kate Briggs and Tracy K. Smith, moderated by Magdalena Edwards
Tue, Sep 22, 2020
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Conversation & Series
Translating the Future Finale: Postmonolingual New York with Ava Chin, Jasmine Claude-Narcisse, Damion Searls, and Lisandro Pérez
Wed, Sep 23, 2020
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Conversation & Series
Translating the Future Finale at Columbia University: Translating for a World on Fire, with Maria Dahvana Headley and Emily Wilson, moderated by Susan Bernofsky
Wed, Sep 23, 2020
8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Conversation & Series
Translating the Future Finale: A Flight of Tokarczuk Translators
Fri, Sep 25, 2020
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Conversation & Series
Translating the Future: “Language as Polis,” with Madeleine Cohen, LaTasha Diggs & Mary Ann Newman
Tue, Aug 25, 2020
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Event
Translating the Future: “A Manifesto For Our Time” featuring Elizabeth Lowe, Matthew Harrington, and Larissa Kyzer
Tue, Jun 9, 2020
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Event
Translating the Future: “Translating Plays and Playing With Translation” featuring Aya Ogawa and Jeremy Tiang
Tue, Jun 16, 2020
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Event
Translating the Future: “Motherless Tongues, Multiple Belongings I” Mónica de la Torre and Jeffrey Angles, with Bruna Dantas Lobato
Tue, Jun 23, 2020
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Conversation & Series
Translating the Future: “Queer Literature, Queer Legacies: Looking Toward the Future of LGBTQ Translation” with Achy Obejas and Sean Gasper Bye, moderated by Elizabeth Rose
Tue, Jun 30, 2020
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Conversation & Series
Translating the Future: “21st-Century Translation: What Has the Future Brought Us?” with Gabriella Page-Fort, Samantha Schnee, and Chad W. Post
Tue, Jul 7, 2020
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Conversation & Series
Translating the Future: “Subtitling Subtleties,” with Darcy Paquet, Linda Hoaglund, and Xiaolu Guo
Tue, Jul 14, 2020
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Conversation & Series
Translating the Future: “Motherless Tongues, Multiple Belongings II” with Boris Dralyuk, Eric Tsimi, and Rajiv Mohabir
Tue, Jul 21, 2020
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Conversation & Series
Translating the Future: “Channeling Ghost Languages of Europe” with Martin Puchner and Peter Constantine, moderated by Tess Lewis
Tue, Jul 28, 2020
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Conversation & Series
Translating the Future: “Lightning in a Bottle: A Case Study of Publishing Literary Translation,” featuring Yoko Tawada with Margaret Mitsutani, Susan Bernofsky, Barbara Epler, Jeffrey Yang & Rivka Galchen, moderated by Stephen Snyder
Tue, Aug 4, 2020
1:30 PM – 2:45 PM
Conversation & Series
Translating the Future: “Building Translator Communities and Communities for Translation,” with Paige Aniyah Morris, Shuchi Saraswat, Allison Markin Powell, & M Lynx Qualey
Tue, Aug 11, 2020
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Conversation & Series
Translating the Future: “Motherless Tongues, Multiple Belongings III,” with Janet Hong, Pierre Joris & María José Giménez
Tue, Aug 18, 2020
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Event
Translating the Future: “From 1970 to 2020: Translation Transformations” with David Bellos and Karen Emmerich
Tue, May 12, 2020
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Event
Translating the Future: “Translating the Uncertain Present,” Madhu Kaza in conversation with Lina Mounzer
Tue, May 19, 2020
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Event
Translating the Future: “Global Ecopoetics: Poetry, Translation, Climate Change & Public Health,” with Forrest Gander & Raquel Salas Rivera
Tue, May 26, 2020
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Event
Translating the Future: “Children’s Literature in Translation” with Lawrence Schimel and Daniel Hahn
Tue, Jun 2, 2020
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Reading
GC Poetics Presents Show n’ Tell: poetry & other works in progress
Wed, Dec 11, 2019
4:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Conversation & Reading
Writing Fiction as a Reparative Act with Jess Row and Claudia Rankine
Tue, Nov 5, 2019
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Conversation
Archival Poetics: A Discussion and Traveling Exhibition of the Maud/Olson Library
Thu, Nov 7, 2019
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Conversation & Reading
André Aciman on Find Me: In Conversation with Hilton Als
Wed, Dec 4, 2019
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Lecture
Queen of the Underworld: the story of Sophie Lyons, America’s most notorious con woman
Mon, Mar 18, 2019
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Lecture
Writing the Women’s Movement, 1963 – 1991: Honor Moore and Alix Kates Shulman
Mon, Oct 15, 2018
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Conversation & Performance
Listening with Radical Empathy: A Listening Party!
Wed, Dec 12, 2018
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Conversation & Reading
Autoethnographies of CUNY: The Power of Storytelling
Mon, Apr 30, 2018
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Conversation
Revisiting Eastern Europe: The Politics of Translation
Wed, Mar 1, 2017
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM