Yulia Valieva will present a rare 1930s film based on a short story by Aleksandr Vvedensky, discuss her work on poetry, and academic life in Russia/at St. Petersburg State University.
Poet and translator Christian Hawkey will read from the book Ventrakl (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010), by Georg Trakl, and offer creative response to the process of being translated into other languages.
Polish poet, essayist, and editor of "Literatura na swiecie," Piotr Sommer, will speak on the topic of "Where American Poetry Ended Up, and How Polish Poetry Started Again."
John MacKay, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Film Studies and Chair of the Film Studies Program at Yale University, will speak on the topic of "Unsealing the Relics: Construction and Fetishism in Vertov."