Exile and Translingualism: A Literary Symposium at Boston College

The emigration and migration of  millions of people from the former USSR and Eastern Europe has transformed the cultural space of Europe, North America, and the Near East. Some of the principal literary figures of past fifty years have been translinguals who transitioned, if incompletely, from working in a Slavic and/or Eastern European language to writing in English, French, German or Hebrew. The “Exile and Translingualism” Symposium at  Boston College will explore the creation and translation of literature in exile by translingual authors with roots in Eastern Europe and the Near East.

Keynote addresses by Luba Jurgenson and Katarzyna Jerzak

Roundtable with translingual authors Franck Salameh, Maxim D. Shrayer, and Olga Zilberbourg moderated by Margarit T. Ordukhanyan.

Thursday, April 30, 2020
4:15pm - 7:00pm
Devlin Hall 101

Event is free and open to the public.