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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Translation Conference & Ghazal Workshop @ Queens CUNY

From Words Without Borders

The Queens College MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation hosts a translation conference from March 26-March 28, 2009, with panels on translation pedagogy, Asian and Middle Eastern languages and literatures, translation in performance, translation as profession, and translation of cultures. Keynote reader: Li-Young Lee. Kimiko Hahn and Roger Sedarat offer a Saturday afternoon workshop on the zuihitsu and ghazal.

contact: Roger.Sedarat [at] qc [dot] cuny [dot] edu

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