Daniele Monticelli, Maris Saagpakk and Miriam McIlfatrick-Ksenofontov attended and were members of the scientific committee for the 16th International Conference of the Estonian Association of Comparative Literature “World Poetry Today: Production, Translation, Reception”, which took place in Tartu on 1-4 October. The conference brought together over 80 poetry scholars from 18 countries and included 20 thematic sessions, focusing on poetry translation and reception; transmedial, multimodal, and multilingual poetry; the formation of canons and anthologies; glocality and urban space; gender and the female voice in poetry; the question of national identity in poetry. Maris Saagpakk and Miriam McIlfatrick-Ksenofontov presented papers on “Poetry for Peasants. Friedrich Nikolai Russow’s Volume of Translated Poetry “Ued kandlekeled” (1854)” and “The Poem as a Response to Place: How Poetry Speaks of and to the World” respectively. Daniele Monticelli and Anna Verschik led a roundtable on the translation of Ukrainian poetry. Miriam also organized and led an evening of conference participants’ poetry “Kaleidoscope of World Poetry” in Tartu Kirjanduse Maja.
Daniele Monticelli opening the conference “World Poetry Today”
