Fall 2009 Events
September 16 | 4:00 pm | RLL Commons, Modern Languages Building (4th floor)
THE CREOLIZATION OF THEORY, Lecture by Francoise Lionnet, Professor of French, Francophone Studies, and Comparative Literature, UCLA
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September 29 | 4:00-5:30pm | Wolverine Room, Michigan Union
A WRITER BETWEEN WORLDS: TRANSLATING KAHLIL GIBRAN, Lecture by Juan Cole, Professor, History Department, University of Michigan
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October 13 | 12:00 – 1:00 pm | Institute for the Humanities
HUMAN RIGHTS SINGULAR-PLURAL: TRANSLATING DALIT AUTOBIOGRAPHY FROM HINDI, a brown bag discussion by Christi Merrill, Associate Professor, Departments of Comparative Literature and American Culture, University of Michigan
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October 29 | 4:00 – 6:00 pm | Kerrytown Concert House
Panel Discussion and Performance by Pavel Lion
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November 9 | 10:00am – 7:00pm | Kuenzel Room, Michigan Union
TRANSLATING TESTIMONY: Negotiating RIGHTS ACROSS LANGUAGES, an interdisciplinary symposium featuring War Crimes Tribunal translator Ellen Elias-Bursac.
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November 12 | Time: 3:00-5:00pm | Language Resource Center, Modern Languages Bldg 2001B
SEEING LANGUAGES DIFFERENTLY: THE CAPL PROJECT & CULTURAL VISUAL LITERACY, a presentation by Michael R. Shaughnessy, Associate Professor of German & Chair of Modern Languages at Washington & Jefferson College.
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November 12 | Time: 7:00pm | Museum of Art's Helmut Stern Auditorium
SUBTITLING CAN BE 'DISTERBING': MEMORIES OF AGANO AND ITS ABUSIVE TRANSLATION, a screening of Sato Makoto's documentary and colloquium by Abe Mark Nornes, subtitler of the film and Chair of the Department of Screen Arts & Culture and Professor in Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan.
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November 20 | Time: 12:00-1:30pm | 2024 Tisch Hall
TRANSLATING MARX AND FREUD, a brown bag with Andrew Parker, Professor of English at Amherst College. Please see the pre-circulated paper, entitled “Translating Revolution: Freud, Marx and the Mameloshn.” (PDF)
Winter 2010 Events
January 22 | 12:00 – 1:00 pm | 2022 Thayer
ISSAC BASHEVIS SINGER AND THE YIDDISH DIFFERENCE, OR: WHY YENTL SINGS, a brown bag with Anita Norich, Professor, Department of English, University of Michigan
January 28 | 4:00 – 6:00 pm | Location: TBD
Lecture by Carol Maier, Professor of Spanish Translation, Institute for Applied Linguistics Graduate Studies Coordinator, Kent State University
January 29 | 12:00 – 1:30 pm | 2024 Tisch Hall
Translation brown bag with Carol Maier, Professor & Graduate Coordinator, Modern and Classical Language Studies, Kent University
February 10 | Time/Location: TBD
Brown bag with Crisca Biernert, Associate Director and Multicultural Coordinator CRLT Center for Research on Learning and Teaching University of Michigan
February 22 | 4:00pm | Location: TBD
Lecture by Karen Van Dyck, Kimon A. Doukas Professor of Hellenic Studies,Columbia University
March 19 | 10:30am – 3:30pm | 3222 Angell Hall
A panel discussion on "BETWEEN LANGUAGES: THE TRANSLATIONAL LIVES AND AFTERLIVES OF ARABESQUOT"
April 23 - 25 | Time/Location: TBD
Graduate Student Translation Conference
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