Events

Speaker: Yōko Tawada, writer and translator

Moderators:
Rivka Galchen, Associate Professor of Writing in the Faculty of the Arts; Provost's Senior Faculty Teaching Scholar,  Columbia University

Susan Bernofsky, Professor of Writing in the Faculty of the Arts; Literary Translation at Columbia (TLAC) Director, Columbia University

Co-moderators Rivka Galchen and Susan Bernofsky will discuss Yōko Tawada's career, writing style, and techniques; similarities and differences in Japanese and German literature; thought processes in multi-lingual writing; and Tawada's inspirations and aspirations. This event is 90 minutes long and includes Q&A. 

This event is hosted by the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture and co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and Heyman Center for the Humanities.

For further details on this event, please click HERE.