This Spring, the Northwestern University Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures is hosting its third annual Nowruz event series, Celebrating Persian and Turkic Culture. The series includes a live multicultural performance event with Chicago-based diaspora communities: On April 13th, 12-3pm (Harris Hall 108), come learn about Persian and Turkic cultures, enjoy traditional music and dance, and sample delicious ethnic cuisine.
There will also be a four-part film series, with screenings of Tajik, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, and Persian films. Screenings will take place 5:30pm on April 10th, 24th, and May 1st in the Main Library Forum Room and at 5:30 p.m. on April 15th in the Video Theatre. On April 15th, Central Asian film scholar Dr. Peter Rollberg (George Washington University) will join via zoom and guide a discussion of the 1966 Kazakh classic "The Land of Fathers”.
Screening Schedule:
April 10th: The Bodyguard (Tajik, 1979) (5:30 p.m. in the Forum Room, Main Library, Second Floor)
April 24th: Buta (Azerbaijani, 2011) (5:30 p.m. in the Forum Room, Main Library, Second Floor)
May 1st: Taste of Cherry (Persian, 1997) (5:30 p.m. in the Forum Room, Main Library, Second Floor)
The Nowruz series will also hold a Literary Translation Workshop 4-6pm May 8th (Kresge 2-351). Led by Shelley Fairweather-Vega, a professional translator of Central Asian literature, "the workshop will examine the often invisible processes that shape literary translation today”.
Please join us for some or all these events! For more information, please contact The Slavic Department at slavic@northwestern.edu.
We'd like to express deep gratitude to our co-sponsors: The Middle Eastern and North African Studies Program (MENA), the Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies Research Program (REEES), the Roberta Buffett Center for Global Affairs, the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, and the South Asian Research Forum.
Deanne Puloka
(847) 491-5636
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