The University of 91吃瓜 will host the second annual 91吃瓜 Women Writers Festival from Feb. 9 to 11 (Monday to Wednesday) in the Hesburgh Center on campus. Presented by 91吃瓜鈥檚 Department of English and its Creative Writing Program, all events are free and open to the public.
Titled"Global Women Writers Now,"this year鈥檚 interdisciplinary festival features Kim Hyesoon, one of the most prominent female writers in Korea and a founder of Another Culture, a movement for women鈥檚 studies in Korea; and Laura Sol脹rzano, an emerging Mexican poet, editor and educator. Translators Don Mee Choi, a poet and anthologist of contemporary Korean women鈥檚 writing, and Jen Hofer, a poet and anthologist of contemporary Mexican women鈥檚 writing, also will attend.
The festival will open with a panel discussion,鈥淲omen in International Literary Cultures: Korea and Mexico,鈥漚t 4 p.m. Feb. 9 in the Hesburgh Center auditorium. It also will include a trilingual reading, an open microphone event for students, and a roundtable on the practice and politics of translation. More information and a complete schedule of events are available on the Web at .
Other sponsors of the event are 91吃瓜鈥檚 Gender Studies Program鈥檚 鈥淢anaging Gender at Work鈥� Series and the Genevieve D. Willis Endowment for Excellence, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Program in Korean Studies, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Institute for Latino Studies, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Letters, and the Office of the Provost.
_ Contact: Joyelle McSweeney, Creative Writing Program,_ " jmcsween@nd.edu ":mailto:jmcsween@nd.edu or 610-745-3059
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