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Languages Lost and Found: A Roundtable

Writers, translators, linguists and practitioners discuss language endangerment, revitalization and multilingualism in both the local context of New York, and the global context of ongoing struggles to maintain linguistic diversity in the face of increasing cultural homogenization. Topics will include: language and identity, migration and loss, translatability, the value of multilingualism, the fight for bilingual education in the NYC school system, and the roles that can be played by art, poetry and music in keeping languages alive.

This event is organized by Mariam Ghani and Daniel Kaufman as an integral part of her project, The Garden of Forked Tongues. It is also part of a series of six programs associated with Nonstop Metropolis: The Remix, leading up to the launch of Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro’s New York atlas Nonstop Metropolis at the Queens Museum in November 2016. Mariam Ghani’s commission for the Large Wall Series, The Garden of Forked Tongues, is inspired by Suketu Mehta’s Tower of Scrabble, one of the 26 essays in the publication, and the accompanying map of linguistic diversity in Queens to which Daniel Kaufman contributed.











When: Sat., Jun. 11, 2016 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Queens Museum
Flushing Meadows-Corona Park
718-592-9700
Price: Free
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Writers, translators, linguists and practitioners discuss language endangerment, revitalization and multilingualism in both the local context of New York, and the global context of ongoing struggles to maintain linguistic diversity in the face of increasing cultural homogenization. Topics will include: language and identity, migration and loss, translatability, the value of multilingualism, the fight for bilingual education in the NYC school system, and the roles that can be played by art, poetry and music in keeping languages alive.

This event is organized by Mariam Ghani and Daniel Kaufman as an integral part of her project, The Garden of Forked Tongues. It is also part of a series of six programs associated with Nonstop Metropolis: The Remix, leading up to the launch of Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro’s New York atlas Nonstop Metropolis at the Queens Museum in November 2016. Mariam Ghani’s commission for the Large Wall Series, The Garden of Forked Tongues, is inspired by Suketu Mehta’s Tower of Scrabble, one of the 26 essays in the publication, and the accompanying map of linguistic diversity in Queens to which Daniel Kaufman contributed.

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