FALL 2024

Dinara Rasuleva and Tatsiana Zamirovskaya. "Lost Tongues, Found Voices, Decolonizing Languages: A Multilingual Reading and Conversation"
​October 2, 6:30 pm

A reading and conversation with Maria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale  
November 15, 6:30 pm 

Inna Krasnoper. "Notation Speaker — A Talk and Poetry Reading"
​November 25, 6:30 pm 
Dinara Rasuleva & Tatsiana Zamirovskaya. "Lost Tongues, Found Voices, Decolonizing Languages: A Multilingual Reading and Conversation." Wednesday, October 2, 6:30 pm. Elizabeth Hemmerdinger Center (706 Hunter East). Free and open to the public. RSVP required. 

Join Belarusian writer Tatsiana Zamirovskaya and Tatar poet_ess Dinara Rasuleva for a discussion on the loss and revival of languages. Dinara will talk about why languages of indigenous peoples colonized by Russia fade and how they are being brought back, sharing her translingual poems from Lostlingual research series. Tatsiana will talk about why some Belarusian writers write in Russian, still remaining Belarusian-identified authors, about her experience writing in a mix of Russian and Belarusian, and the challenges of translating colonized voices accurately. Both writers will reflect on the intersections of language and identity in their lives and works.

Dinara Rasuleva (she/they) is a poet_ess based in Berlin and born in Kazan, Tatarstan. She writes in Tatar, Russian, English and German - the languages she uses everyday. Dinara’s poetry was described and analyzed as decolonial and feminist writing, as expressionist poetry and performance poetry. In 2020 Dinara started a feminist writing laboratory for russian-speaking immigrant FLINTA community. In 2022 their first book of poems Su was published by Babel publishing house. Since 2022 Dinara started the Lostlingual Project, an investigation of the loss of her native Tatar language through translingual abstract poetry. In 2023, in collaboration with Berlin library Totschka, Dinara started TEL:L laboratories: writing in native forgotten or stolen languages.

Tatsiana Zamirovskaya is a Belarusian author who moved to Brooklyn in 2015. She writes metaphysical sci-fi fiction about memory, ghosts, hybrid identities and borders between empires and languages. She is the author of 3 collections of short stories and a novel Deadnet, published in Moscow in 2021, receiving great critical acclaim and shortlisted in several Russophone literary awards. She is a recipient of fellowships from Macdowell, Djerassi and VCCA. Currently Tatsiana is finishing her new collection of short stories about women going through unbearable events and how these events influence language and perception. She currently writes in belarusified Russian, russified Belarusian and broken English.

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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A reading and conversation with Maria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale. Friday, November 15, 6:30 pm. Elizabeth Hemmerdinger Center (706 Hunter East). Free and open to the public. RSVP required. 

Please join us for an evening with Maria Stepanova, a Berlin-based Russian poet and prose writer, recipient of multiple book awards, including the Andrei Bely Prize, Joseph Brodsky Fellowship, the Big Book Prize, and NOS, among others, and editor-in-chief of Colta.ru, an online cultural portal currently blocked in Russia. Stepanova's novel In Memory of Memory, translated into English by Sasha Dugdale (New Directions, 2021), was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. Her newest novel Fokus is forthcoming in English next year. Stepanova will read her original works and speak about living and writing in exile. 

She will be joined by Sasha Dugdale, her English translator and a poet, whose own book Deformations (2020) was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot and Derek Walcott Prizes. Dugdale is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the author of six collections of poetry, including The Strongbox (Carcanet, 2024). She has translated other Russian-language women poets, including Elena Shvarts and Marina Tsvetaeva, as well as new writing for theaters in the UK and the US, e.g. the New York Public Theatre, the UK's Royal Court Theatre, and Royal Shakespeare Company. 

Stepanova's most recent book of poetry in English Holy Winter 20/21 (New Directions, 2024), translated by Sasha Dugdale, will be the subject of a symposium at the Harriman Institute of Columbia University on November 18! 

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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Inna Krasnoper. "Notation Speaker — A Talk and Poetry Reading." Monday, November 25, 6:30 pm. Elizabeth Hemmerdinger Center (706 Hunter East). Free and open to the public. RSVP required. 

Translingual poet and dance artist Inna Krasnoper will speak about her poetic and artistic practices, moving between languages and mediums, and ongoing translation/transition processes. How do languages overlap, inform each other, and shake their settled places? How does the first language decenter itself? What is (en)count(er)ed in language mixing? She will perform her poems written in English, Russian, German, or in combinations of those languages.

Inna Krasnoper is a poet and artist born in Ufa (Bashqortostan) and based in Berlin. She graduated from the Chto Delat Collective School of Engaged Art in Saint Petersburg and holds a BA in Dance, Context, Choreography from University of the Arts in Berlin. Her Russophone poetry collections include Нитки торчат (Loose Threads), published by the Voznesensky Center in 2021, and Дорогой человек (Dear Person), published by NLO in 2024. Her poetry has also appeared in Vozdukh, [Translit], Zerkalo, Nosorog, F-pis'mo, and other periodicals, as well as in German, English, and Polish translation. Her English-language poetry has appeared in her chapbooks Over Sight (Eulalia Books, 2024) and Sealed (Black Sunflowers Poetry Press, 2024), as well as in Annulet, Ghost Proposal, Poetry Daily, Pocket Samovar, Oversound, SAND, and 128 LIT. Krasnoper's full-length English-language poetry collection dis tanz is forthcoming from Veliz Books in March 2025.

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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By Dirk Skiba & Inna Krasnoper
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