2022 TLRC & WWC Meeting and Asia-Pacific Network Meeting: Literary Justice for All – Yangon, Myanmar

Houses in Yangon

Dear friends,

We are glad to inform you that the annual meeting of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee (TLRC) and Women Writers Committee (WWC) of PEN International will take place in Yangon, Myanmar in December 2022.

The meeting will address issues regarding LITERARY JUSTICE FOR ALL: TOLERANCE THROUGH DIVERSITY. A meeting of Asia-Pacific Centres will take place in December 2022.

Please consult the provisional programme schedule. We would like to connect the Asia-Pacific Centres’ experience in preserving Tolerance through Diversity with similar projects in other parts of the world.

Please register before 1 November 2022. See below for details.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION:

Working languages for the meeting: English and Burmese.

Visa: Most of the participants will need a visa to travel to Myanmar but the whole process can be completed online. It is very simple and takes around 3 days for your visa to be issued. Please consult our Visa Guidance.

Registration fees (without accommodation):

TLRC&WWC meeting 3 days (18, 19, 20 May) USD 250

Asia-Pacific meeting 1 day (21 May) USD 55

Whole meeting 4 days (18, 19, 20, 21 May) USD 300

Registration fees (with accommodation):

TLRC&WWC meeting 3 days (18, 19, 20 May) USD 430

Asia-Pacific meeting 1 day (2 nights) (21 May) USD 175

Whole meeting 4 days (18, 19, 20, 21 May) USD 540

Please note:

1) Participants have to register through the Centres’ Organising team to secure a discounted price at the partner hotel. If you wish to book directly with the hotel you will not receive the discount.

2) Any charges associated with the payment should be covered by the participants.

3) Registration fee covers: Airport – Hotel transfers, local transfers (Hotel – Events Venue), welcome bags (Sim-card, Agenda, Invitation card, Panellists Biographies, ID Card), translator fees, interpretation technical support, meals: May 18 – Dinner, May 19 – Tea Breaks + Lunch, May 20 – Tea Breaks + Lunch + Dinner, May 21 – Tea Break + Lunch).

Registration fees to be paid before 1 November 2022 to:

Bank Name: KANBAWZA BANK, INTERNATIONAL BANKING DIVISION BRANCH

Bank Address (Street and Office number): NO.53, 6 STOREY OFFICE BLD, COR OF MERCHANT RD AND BOSOONPAT ST, PABEDAN TSP, YANGON

City: Yangon

State: Yangon Division

Pin Code: 11141

Bank Account Name: PEN MYANMAR CENTER

Bank Account Number: 206109 206008 98401

Currency of the account: USD

Bank routing number (9 digits): Nil

SWIFT code (8 or 11 characters): KBZBMMMY

Branch Name or Number (optional): 12-061

Payment Ref.: Reg. [participant name]

The main meeting venue: Taw Win Garden hotel

The accommodation cost is USD 60 per night based on single occupancy (with special price).

To register, please send the completed registration form, a copy of your passport photo page and your proposed text for the literary event to Olha Mukha, Congresses, Committees and New Centres Coordinators at olha.mukha@pen-international.org.

If you have any suggestions on how we could involve additional institutions devoted to the theme of the meeting in the programme, we will highly appreciate your suggestions.

If you will not be able to attend the meeting, but you would like to participate, you can send us a written contribution that will be shared with all the participants.