FALL 2023

Anna Starobinets and Katherine E. Young. Look at Him. A bilingual reading and Q&A
September 18, 6 pm

Aleksandra Kamińska. "Queer Publishing as Protest: DIY Culture in Today's Poland" 
October 5, 7 pm

Tomas Venclova. Poetry reading and Q&A 
​October 10, 7 pm
Anna Starobinets and Katherine E. Young. Look at Him. A reading and Q&A with the author and translator. Monday, September 18, 6 pm. Chanin Language Center, room B126 Hunter West Building. Free and open to the public. RSVP required. 

Russian writer in exile Anna Starobinets and her translator Katherine E. Young will read and discuss the memoir Look at Him. A finalist for the 2018 National Bestseller Prize, Look at Him ignited a firestorm in Russia, prompting both high praise and severe condemnation for the author’s willingness to discuss long-taboo issues of women’s agency over their own bodies. Beautiful, darkly humorous, and deeply moving, Look at Him explores moral, ethical, and quintessentially human issues that resonate for families in the world beyond Russia, as well. 

Journalist, scriptwriter, and novelist Anna Starobinets has been called “Russia’s Queen of Horror.” She has published novels, short stories, and children's books, and describes herself as writing "horror and supernatural fiction for adults, and also fairy and detective stories for children." Poet and translator Katherine E. Young has translated prose from Russia and Azerbaijan and poetry from Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan. A 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellow, Young served as the inaugural poet laureate for Arlington, Virginia.

Directions: at the reception desk of the Hunter West Building, please present your ID to get a pass. From there, take the escalator one floor down, turn around and look for Chanin Language Center. Room B126 is to your right through the door and up the stairs.
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Aleksandra Kamińska. "Queer Publishing as Protest: DIY Culture in Today's Poland." Moderated by Monika Zaleska. Thursday, October 5. Elizabeth Hemmerdinger Center, room 706 Hunter East Building. Free and open to the public. RSVP required. Co-hosted by Tamizdat Project. 

Please join us for a conversation with Aleksandra Kamińska of Warsaw University and co-founder of the zine Girls and Queers To The Front. Aleksandra will discuss her zine and independent publishing venture with Monika Zaleska, Lecturer in Polish Literature at Hunter College. We will discuss the joys and struggles of publishing queer and feminist literature in the current Polish political climate and the practice of DIY culture — from pop-up events to DJing to publishing new and exciting voices in today's Poland.

Directions: At the reception desk of the Hunter West Building, please present your ID to get a pass. From there, take the escalator to the 3rd floor, turn right and walk across the sky bridge to the Hunter East Building, then take the elevator to the 7th floor. Hemmerdinger Center is at the end of the hallway past the turnstiles. 
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Tomas Venclova. Poetry reading and Q&A. Tuesday, October 10. Elizabeth Hemmerdinger Center, room 706 Hunter East Building. Free and open to the public. RSVP required. Co-hosted by Tamizdat Project. 

Tomas Venclova is a Lithuanian poet, scholar, professor emeritus at Yale University, former dissident and founding member of the Lithuanian Helsinki Group. After a successful career in the U.S., where he emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1977, Venclova returned to his native Lithuania and is now living in Vilnius. He will read his poems in the original Lithuanian, as well as in the English and Russian translations, and reflect, in particular, on what it means for an East European intellectual to be caught up in the historical and political turbulence of the Soviet era, as well as today. 

Directions: at the reception desk of the Hunter West Building, please present your ID to get a pass. From there, take the escalator one floor down, turn around and look for Chanin Language Center. Room B126 is to your right through the door and up the stairs.
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