Friday, March 12, 2021
(See Program)
Zoom webinar & YouTube Live
This program will be held virtually on Zoom and YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event.
See program below for registration and live stream links.
Please join the Harriman Institute at Columbia University and the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Colorado, Boulder for a three-panel "Zoomposium" on the work of poet Lida Yusupova, followed by a reading by Yusupova herself. This event is part of our Contemporary Culture Series.
Lida Yusupova is a uniquely important voice in contemporary Russophone poetry and, in particular, a groundbreaking figure for contemporary feminist poetry. Often experimenting with documentary poetics, as in Verdicts, her poetic cycle based on transcripts of Russian court hearings, she unflinchingly investigates cruelty and violence, while, paradoxically, extending intimacy and sympathy to the most alienating situations. We are proud to welcome an international lineup of poets and poetry scholars to discuss Yusupova’s poetics and her new bilingual edition, The Scar We Know (edited by Ainsley Morse, Cicada Press, 2021). The event will conclude with a poetry reading by Yusupova.
PROGRAM
Note: All times in EST. Each panel requires individual registration.
12:00-12:55 PM—Sex and Violence in Yusupova’s Poetry
Register here for the Zoom webinar or tune in on YouTube Live.
Moderator: Ainsley Morse
Anastasiya Osipova
Oksana Vasyakina
Ainsley Morse
Nadia Vikulina
1:10-2:05 PM—Lida Yusupova’s Documentary Poetics
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Moderator: Mark Lipovetsky
Galina Rymbu
Stephanie Sandler
Ilya Kukulin
2:20-3:20 PM—Feminism in Yusupova’s Poetry
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Moderator: Anastasiya Osipova
Scout Mills
Madeline Kinkel
Olga Zilberbourg
Anna Halberstadt
6:00-8:00 PM—Lida Yusupova Reads Her Poetry
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Moderator: Mark Lipovetsky