Dinara Rasuleva & Tatsiana Zamirovskaya. "Lost Tongues, Found Voices, Decolonizing Languages"

Name: Dinara Rasuleva & Tatsiana Zamirovskaya. "Lost Tongues, Found Voices, Decolonizing Languages"
Start: 2024-10-02T18:30:00-04:00
Location: Hunter College

Schedule

Wed Oct 02 2024 at 06:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Hunter College | Manhattan, NY

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, with a photo ID. RSVP required:
https://www.reechunter.com/current-events.html#october2
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 (South-West corner of East 68th Street and Lexington Avenue), 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.