Center for Translation Studies, Spring 2012 calendar of events

[Susan Johnson]

The Center for Translation Studies at Barnard College announces its
Spring, 2012 program.

EVENTS

Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 7 p.m., Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard Hall
“The Journey of the ‘Russian Columbus’ from Victorian England to
Bollywood”
A Lecture by Anindita Banerjee, Cornell University

Film screening: “Journey Beyond Three Seas” (“Хождение за три моря”),
will be shown on Sunday, Feb. 12, at 5:00-7:30 p.m. on the Barnard
College campus *at a location to be announced.*

Details/updates at:
www.barnard.edu/translation/russiancolumbus or see our new Facebook
page for the updated venue.


Wednesday, March 21, 2012, 7 p.m., Ella Weed Room, 223 Milbank Hall
"Ethics of Translation: Kristian Smeds’s *Mental Finland*:
A Talk and Discussion with Assistant Professor Hana Worthen and
Director Kristian Smeds"

Details at:
www.barnard.edu/translation/mentalfinland


Friday, April 6, 2012, 6 p.m., Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard Hall
"Swedish Poetry Today: A Reading and Panel Discussion with Anna
Hallberg, Jörgen Gassilewski, and Johannes Göransson"

Details at:
www.barnard.edu/translation/swedishpoetry


Monday, April 16, 2012, 7 p.m., Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard Hall
“When a Text is a Song: Translating Kabir Oral Traditions in North
India”
A lecture by Linda Hess, Stanford University

Details at:
www.barnard.edu/translation/kabir-oral-traditions


Friday, April 20, 2012, James Room, Barnard Hall
“Conflicts in Translation: A Tribute to Serge Gavronsky”
With Serge Gavronsky, Mary Ann Caws, Lydia Davis (BC ‘70), Suzanne
Jill Levine, and Richard Sieburth.

Details TBA at:
www.barnard.edu/translation/gavronsky


Friday and Saturday, May 4-5, 2012, James Room, Barnard Hall
Conference: “Pedagogies of Translation: Current Methods and Future
Prospects”

Program and other details at:
www.barnard.edu/translation/pedagogies

All events are free and open to the public, and are supported by a
grant from the Mellon Foundation. For more information, contact us at
trans...@barnard.edu or (212) 851-5979.

You can also visit us on Facebook.

We hope to see you at our events this term!

Best regards,
Susan Johnson
Coordinator
Center for Translation Studies at Barnard College