Barnard Center for Translation Studies_Upcoming Events_Spring 2013
Susan Johnson
Barnard College’s Center for Translation Studies is excited to announce a number of upcoming events occurring at Barnard this spring. The topics range in discussion, travelling across different medias, languages, and contexts. Our speakers and lecturers come from a variety of backgrounds—they are published authors, as well as distinguished professors from various universities, including University of North Carolina, University of Georgia, Arizona State University, Cornell, Harvard, and Barnard College.
Unless otherwise noted, all events are free and take place on the Barnard College campus.
For more information or if you have any questions, please contact Peter Connor, Brian O'Keeffe, or Phillip John Usher, by email at: barnardtr...@gmail.com
Monday, February 18, 2013
Jack Kerouac's Bilingualism: Biographical and Critical Perspectives
6:00 PM
Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall
On the Road, Jack Kerouac’s immortal contribution to Beat literature, became a cultural touchstone for generations of American readers. But few people realize that Kerouac began writing his masterpiece in French. Imagine how vastly different the landscape of postwar American literature would look had he not switched to English. Hassan Melehy and Joyce Johnson discuss Kerouac’s life and work with an emphasis on his constant cultural and linguistic translation between French and English. Hassan Melehy is associate professor of French at UNC, Chapel Hill. Joyce Johnson is the author of two books about her relationship with Kerouac, Door Wide Open and Minor Characters, as well as of the biography: The Voice is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac (2012). Introduced by Rachel Adams, a professor of English at Columbia University.
Contact: Professor Phillip John Usher; pus...@barnard.edu
Monday, February 25, 2013
The Canon & It’s Double: Elfriede Jelinek in Translation & Performance
7:00 PM
Glicker-Milstein Black Box Theatre, Diana Center
On the occasion of the performance of her translation of Jelinek’s Jackie at The Women’s Project, Gitta Honegger considers the Nobel Prize-winning author’s distinctive “speechscapes” and the challenges they pose both to literary translation and to their translation to stage performance. Gitta Honegger is a professor of Theatre at Arizona State University.
Contact: Professor Hana Worthen; hw2...@columbia.edu
Friday, March 1, 2013
Theory and Translation: (1) Spatialities of Translation
6:00 PM
Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall
*By Invitation Only*
This event constitutes the first meeting of a new seminar series dedicated to the topic of “Theory and Translation.” Over the upcoming two years, major topics in translation theory will be selected for discussion. In this first session, the topic to be addressed is “Spatialities of Translation.” How might our ideas about translation, which literally means ‘a carrying across,’ change if we consider it as a traversing of space, be it a map, a maze, or some liminal or transitional state? Seminar participants will attempt to reshape the theory and practice of translation by creatively rethinking its very coordinates. Bruno Bosteels is professor of Romance studies at Cornell University. Tom Conley is Abbott Lawrence Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
The Galley Slave’s Dilemma
6:30 PM
Ella Weed Room, 2nd Floor Milbank Hall
Join the Center for Translation Studies as distinguished scholars and translators discuss the life and work of Juan Latino. Born in 1518, this African ex-slave was the first person of sub-Saharan African descent to publish a book of poems in a “Western” language. Focusing on the “Austriad,” Latino’s poem about the epoch-defining Battle of Lepanto, this conversation unpacks the literary text in order to explore issues of identity and translation. Andrew Lemons is completing his dissertation in the department of comparative literature at Princeton. Sarah Spence is professor of classics at the University of Georgia. Elizabeth Wright is associate professor of Spanish at the University of Georgia.
Contact: Professor Phillip John Usher; pus...@barnard.edu
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