Symposium
Topographies of Writing

Symposium celebrating the 20th anniversary of MIT’s Max Kade Writer-in-Residence Program

Thu, 04/26/2018 -
Sat, 04/28/2018
6:00 PM - 13:00 German Studies Program MIT

The three-day symposium unites well-known German and Swiss Writers who each taught for one semester in the German Studies program at MIT as Max Kade Writers-in-Residence. “Topographies of Writing” will address topics such as identity formation in different cultural contexts, shifting borders, cultural closeness and distance, language and cultural spaces, and the "taste" of languages. Day 1 will feature readings and discussions in dialogue with renowned MIT author Helen Lee; on day 2 (in German) writers will discuss the aforementioned topics with each other and the audience and read from their un/published texts; day 3 will invite participants to individual workshops and conversations with the writers in both English and German. This symposium offers unusual and novel insights into notions of cultural globalization, migration and diaspora, as well as multilingualism, topics that have become increasingly more relevant over the past years.

The symposium will feature the following writers:

• Kristof Magnusson
• Perikles Monioudis
• Hansjörg Schertenleib
• Tzveta Sofronieva
• Helen Lee (MIT)