INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2012

Scottish PEN events

INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN THE HUMANITIES AND SCOTTISH PEN
8 MARCH

Translated Identities
An event to mark International Women’s Day bringing together creative writers, scholars and critics at IASH, University of Edinburgh, Hope Park Square, Edinburgh, 9.30am-5.00pm

Open to all

9.30 Introduction by Susan Manning and Jenni Calder

9.45 Marilyn Booth : The Hidden ‘I’: Women and Autobiographical Writing in Egypt, 1885-1925

10.45 Coffee

11.15 Marianne Boruch: Closely at a Distance: The Unlikely Friendship of Elizabeth Bishop and Flannery O’Connor

12.15 Dilys Rose reads from her work

12.45 Lunch

13.45 Olga Taxidou: Translating Tragic Women: Medea, Trojan Women, The Bacchae

14.45 Kapka Kassabova reads from her work

15.15 Tea

15.45 Round table discussion

17.00 Ends

Free, including lunch and refreshments. Booking essential as space is limited. To book contact Anthea Taylor, A.taylor@ed.ac.uk

18.00 Pippa Gregory gives the University of Edinburgh’s International Women’s Day lecture at Moray House, Paterson’s Land, Holyrood Road