Event time:
Friday, February 14, 2025 - 11:00am
Friday, February 14, 2025 - 3:00pm
Location:
New Haven Free Public Library, 133 Elm Street, Program Room
Event description:
We would like to warmly invite you to attend the Emerging Publics: Cultural Criticism Beyond the Academy workshop & lecture series. Our first workshop and talk will be on Friday, February 14th, featuring acclaimed translator and literary critic Bela Shayevich.
Organized by graduate students from the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Literatures and Cultures, the workshop will take place at 11 AM in HQ 359. The workshop will be focused on pitching translation projects to publishers. Participants are invited to come with their hard-hitting questions and harebrained ideas. The workshop is open to Yale graduate students by RSVP only and will be limited to 15 students followed by a catered lunch. Workshop details will be circulated to registered attendees closer to the day of the event.
Everyone is welcome to join us at 3pm for a lecture open to the public at the New Haven Free Public Library at 133 Elm Street, in the Program Room.
I Love Hustling (Well, I Used To): Confessions of a Literary Translator
Writer and translator Bela Shayevich will give a lecture on the nuts and bolts of becoming and sustaining oneself as a professional literary translator. Her wisdom is drawn from 20 years in the field, including two years of teaching translation to undergraduates at the University of Iowa.
Writer and translator Bela Shayevich will give a lecture on the nuts and bolts of becoming and sustaining oneself as a professional literary translator. Her wisdom is drawn from 20 years in the field, including two years of teaching translation to undergraduates at the University of Iowa.
Bela Shayevich is a writer and literary translator. She received her MA in Russian translation from Columbia University and, more recently, an MFA from the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program. She lives in Iowa City, where she teaches in what is currently the only translation BA program in the US. She has translated ten books, her latest, Elena Kostyuchenko’s l Love Russia, with Illona Chavasse Yabzhin. Her best-known translation is Svetlana Alexievich’s Secondhand Time and her favorite is Vsevolod Nekrasov’s I Live I See, with Ainsley Morse. Her writing has appeared in n+1, Harper’s, The Guardian, among other publications.
Workshop: February 14th, 11 am, HQ 359 (RSVP here).
Lecture: February 14th, 3pm, New Haven Free Public Library, 133 Elm Street, Program Room. Free and open to the public.
Stay tuned for information about our second workshop and talk, featuring journalist Sophie Pinkham!