Virtual Summer Colloquium Series
Monday 17 May, 6pm BST
Atlantic Conversations
Pierre Joris (New York/Luxembourg) "Whose North Atlantic Turbine?"
Abigail Lang (Paris Diderot University) "The Transatlantic Conversation: Exchanges between French and US poetries since 1968"
Habib Tengour (France/Algeria), 'The Poet-Editor-Translator 'au confluent des deux mers' / 'at the confluence of two seas'"
Thursday 3 June, 6pm BST
Lo común / The Commonplace
Reading by Hugo García Manríquez (UC Davis)
After-words by NAFTA (North American Free Translation Agreement)
Gerónimo Sarmiento Cruz (University of Chicago), Whitney DeVos (UC Santa Cruz)
& Zane Koss (New York University)
Thursday 17 June, 6pm BST
Sound & Visual Poetry in Performance: Language is à Virus (Chilean variant)
Felipe Cussen (Universidad de Santiago de Chile), Anamaría Briede, Martín Bakero,
Pía Sommer & Martín Gubbins
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/language-is-a-virus-the-chilean-variant-tickets-151796221585
Tuesday 29 June, 6pm BST
Networks, Magazines & Materials
Jèssica Pujol (Universidad de Santiago de Chile): “A Performative Forum: Women, Body & Memory in Foro de Escritores Chile/Writers Forum London”
Rebecca Kosick (Bristol University): “Mail Art and Postal Poetry: Tracing Aesthetic Exchange in 1970s Transatlantia”
Juan Francisco Rangel Yáñez (Colegio de México): “Poetry and/or Revolution: Social Dynamics of Translation in El Corno emplumado/The Plumed Horn (1962-1969)”
Presented by Bangor University, the University of Sheffield, the Contempo Centre for Contemporary Poetry and the Centre for Poetry & Poetics. Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy.
Contact: Zoë Skoulding (Bangor, z.skoulding@bangor.ac.uk) & Dan Eltringham (Sheffield, d.eltringham@sheffield.ac.uk