State surveillance has long been a means of disciplining populations of Central and East Europe. While the authoritarian governments of the region have reverted to the Soviet-style state surveillance strategies by silencing dissidents (Belarus) or listing and wiretapping “Soros mercenaries” (Hungary), corporates today penetrate the society by means of technology and collect data on all aspects of the individual’s life.
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Join the Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies and the Yale Translation Initiative to welcome alumnus Adam Mahler back to Yale for a discussion related to a forthcoming book - a new translation of the 1920 book of poems by Portuguese symbolist poet, Camilo Pessanha, who resided in Macau for the last part of his life (1894-1926). The session will feature a reading of a selection of the original poems in Portuguese with Adam’s new translations.
The discriminative politics and hateful rhetoric of the Hungarian and Polish authoritarian governments have put the local LGBTQ communities under increased attacks in recent years. Polish municipalities have declared themselves “LGBT-free zones” and prosecuted the protesting activists. Meanwhile, the Hungarian parliament revised the constitution to legally establish that in a family “the mother is a woman, the father a man,” and also passed a law that bans the “promotion” of sexual orientation in schools and in other public institutions.
The third colloquium in the series features Ellina Sattarova, Instructor, Department of Russian Studies at Dalhousie University (Canada). She will present on “The Non-Final Cut: The Biopolitics of Necrorealist Cinema.”
The first colloquium in the series features Mollie Arbuthnot, Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College, University of Cambridge. She will present on “Red East: Propaganda Posters for Interwar Soviet Uzbekistan”
The seventh in a weekly series on Wednesdays at 12 noon ET featuring 2021 Windham-Campbell Prize Recipients in a 30-40 minute pre-recorded streaming video presentation featuring a live chat box, followed by a Zoom Q&A with that week’s featured writer. Future sessions include:
11/3 – Dionne Brand
11/10 – The Windham-Campbell Lecture by US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo.
The second in a weekly series on Wednesdays at 12 noon ET featuring 2021 Windham-Campbell Prize Recipients in a 30-40 minute pre-recorded streaming video presentation featuring a live chat box, followed by a Zoom Q&A with that week’s featured writer. Future sessions include:
9/29 – Renee Gladman
10/6 – Natalie Scenters-Zapico
10/12 – Canisia Lubrin
10/20 – Nathan Alan Davis
10/27 – Kate Briggs
11/3 – Dionne Brand
11/10 – The Windham-Campbell Lecture by US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo.
An Art & Protest zoom webinar with Tano D’Amico
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Jeffrey H. Jackson, is the author of “Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis,” based on research in the Beinecke Library for the book.
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