Brian Holton is a poet and prize-winning translator of Chinese poetry. Famed for his renditions of contemporary poet Yang Lian 楊煉 into English, he is also the the world's only translator of Classical Chinese into Scots. Join us for an evening in which Brian discusses the art and practice of translation, the experience of working in a minority language like Scots, and his life growing up between Nigeria and Scotland, immersed in a myriad of languages.

The director of Zone Books, Michel Feher, will be at UCSB on Tuesday, October 30th. He has just written Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age.  In this original and exciting book, he argues that we can use existing institutional systems to redesign finance capitalism and move beyond neoliberalism as we know it. With the mid-term elections two weeks away, come hear Feher discuss our current political and economic predicament and new ideas for a ...