This evening celebrates the Columbia University School of the Arts’s partnership with the Instituto Vera Cruz in São Paulo, Brazil, as part of the Word for Word translation exchange. In collaboration with the journals Words Without Borders and Pessoa as well as the Columbia Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro, the School of the Arts presents a number of leading writers visiting from Brazil in conversation with writers from Columbia’s Writing Program.
6:00 p.m.
Welcome
Sam Lipsyte, Writing Program Chair, SoA
Introduction
Susan Bernofsky SoA
Eric Becker, Words Without Borders
6:15 p.m.
Panel One: Writing Place
Estévão Azevedo
Paul Beatty, SoA
Alexandre Vidal Porto
Roberto Taddei
moderated by Rivka Galchen, SoA
7:15 p.m.
Panel Two: Writing Our Time
Leslie Jamison, SoA
Ismar Tirelli Neto
Carol Rodrigues
moderated by Susan Bernofsky, SoA
8:00
Reception
This event is presented by the School of the Arts/Writing, Literary Translation at Columbia, the Columbia Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro, Pessoa, and Words Without Borders
