Aziz Nazmi Shakir-Tash suggests general meanings of the terms "migration," "diaspora," and "exile," relating stories of his own experiences--as well as those of Bulgarian Turks--to these meanings. Verena Tay's talk is titled, "You Are What You Eat:...
Beyond describing the necessary qualities in translating poetry--"honesty, musical ears, investigating for the right things behind things"--Nadia Abduljabbar's talk goes into the difficulties of translating cultural experiences and expectations...
Simone Inguanez chooses to stand in her poetry, a place that can neither be created nor destroyed. James Na divides his presentation into three topics: the hibernation of Phillippine-Chinese literature, the Phillippine-Chinese literature under the...