Nakladatelství Columbia University Press zve na online besedu s překladatelem ujgurské prózy The Backstreets, Darrenem Blyerem. Beseda se uskuteční dne 30. ledna 2023 ve 22 hodin. Odkaz na registraci je zde. Bližší informace k besedě jsou následující:
| The Backstreets in Ürümchi is a novel by Perhat Tursun, a leading Uyghur writer, poet, and social critic from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Perhat Tursun has published many short stories and poems as well as three novels, including the controversial The Art of Suicide (1999), decried as anti-Islamic. In 2018, he was detained by the Chinese authorities and was reportedly given a sixteen-year prison sentence. Byler was a cotranslator with ‘Anonymous,’ who disappeared in 2017 and is presumed to be in the reeducation camp system in northwest China. This event would be meaningful to students and faculty in many different areas of the university, including the proposed cosponsors and students of China and Inner Asia. |
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| Speaker: Darren Byler, Assistant Professor of International Studies, Simon Fraser University |
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| Moderator: Andrew J. Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Columbia University |
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