Born in Ankara in 1961 and living in Germany since 1970, Zafer Senocak is a writer and intellectual whose publications have garnered several German-language literary awards and made him a leading contributor to German discussions of multiculturalism and cultural identity. At each of the two readings he will give while in Toronto, Senocak will read a different selection of literary and essayistic pieces in German and English and discuss the current state of (multi-)cultural life in Germany today.

Door Languages
Date: Monday, March 23, 2009
Time: 12:30-2:15pm
Location: S 558 Ross, York University (Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics)
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Das Land hinter den Buchstaben / Beyond the Language of the Land
Date: Monday, March 23, 2009
Time: 6:30-8:00pm
Location: Room 208, North House, Munk Centre for International Studies, 1 Devonshire Place, University of Toronto

Both readings are free and open to the public and are made possible by generous funding provided by the German Studies Programme, York University; the German Department, University of Toronto; the Academic Initiative Fund, York Faculty of Arts/ Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics; the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies, and the York University European Studies Programme

For more information and questions please contact Dr. Peter M. McIsaac, Department of Languages, Literatures & Linguistics, York University (416-736-2100 x88747, email: pmcisaac@yorku.ca)