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Pittsburgh’s Inaugural Literary Festival Celebrates Creative Free Expression City of Asylum will host International LitFest, a 10-day series of events featuring more than 30 speakers, including Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winners. April 29, 2021 NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OLGA TOKARCZUK | PHOTO: SHUTTERSTOCK City of Asylum is gearing up to host Pittsburgh’s first-ever International Literary Festival, (LitFest). This 10-day event will start on Wednesday, May 12 and bring together authors from around the world to discuss themes of migration, displacement and identity in contemporary literature. The festival will take place in live and virtual formats, but every live program will have virtual coverage in order to provide global access to the panels. ....
news Losing languages My Republica Nepal, March 17 While the state should create the environment to preserve and promote indigenous languages, indigenous communities themselves should also commit to the preservation and revitalization of their languages. There are many theories regarding the origin of language. Some say it began with pronouncing easiest syllables. Others say body movement that preceded language, and yet others claim that it began with the imitations of the sounds of nature. Whatsoever the origin, one thing that all theorists and people believing in such theories agree to is that language developed as the means of communication and expression. It is also an important tool to preserve and promote cultural heritage, as it is through language that most of the intangible cultural heritages are passed on from generations to generations. It binds communities together, describes their attachment with the cultural heritage they follow, an ....
Traversing the overlapping print worlds of Portuguese, Konkani and English, Rochelle Pinto has been studying how colonialism and its aftermath has shaped life in Goa and the larger Goan diaspora in Mumbai and beyond. In this interview with Murali Ranganathan, she looks back at her engagement with print history and its connection with politics and land At what point of time in your career did you realize that you had evolved into a book/print historian from a professor of English literature? How did the evolution happen? A Master’s degree at JNU opened up a world of different methodologies thanks to an extraordinary range of teachers who introduced us to nineteenth century writing in India and to theoretical questions about the history of literary studies both in England and in India. This led to questions about how the field of literature was shaped during colonial rule and after, and about the assumptions that underlay our use of the category litera ....