Elena Bossi's discussion of "Writing as Philosophy and Craft" focuses on pseudonymity in fiction, titling her talk "The Names of the Other." Chris Chryssopoulos recalls philosophies of Jorge Luis Borges, Immanuel Kant, Ludwig Wittgenstein, but...
To Anna Rogozhnikova, female literature can be singled out, separated and understood as a continuation of the women writers themselves. Considering male domination a universal issue, Edi Shukriu divides her talk into four parts: gender experience...
Kristien Hemmerechts, of Belgium, describes the difficulty of describing and identifying Belgian literature. First, she states that there are three official languages in Belgium; Dutch, French and German. She observes that it is unclear whether...
Kavery Nambisan describes the migrant writer's thought-space, not losing rootedness whether traveling in the real or in the imagination. Saša Stanišić's talk is titled, "How You See Us: on Three Myths about Migrant Writing," and covers the myth...
Farhad A.K. Sulliman Khoyratty of Mauritius begins the panel by stating that satire is an “instrument guaranteeing the health of society.” He also discusses the nature of satire, particularly the insider/outsider element and the subversive...
In Liu Heng's talk, titled "Wandering between the Novel and Film," Liu orients his comments around his experience writing novels and collaborating with directors, who at times alter his "artistic design." Young-Moon Jung discusses how verbal and...
International authors and filmmakers meet to discuss their perspectives on translating writing into film and television. Lou Ye experiments with how changing the delivery of message changes the thoughts that get delivered. Rafael Courtoisie's talk...
Leopoldo Brizuela says the way his imagination works is "not on reality itself, but on representation of reality: moreover, not on the words or images that represent reality, but on their silences, on their voids." Jeong Han-Yong applies the topic...
Doris Kareva discusses her belief that literary translation is akin to alchemy, being about creation and recreation, and that transformation is only possible through passionate people taking on texts that are absolutely necessary for them to...
K.V. Tirumalesh discusses literature, translation, and criticism in this talk given at the Iowa City Public Library on Oct. 6, 2004. Sulkhan Zhordania's talk, "On the Symbolic Action and the Symbolic Association," covers the ideas in stories and...