Two More Events at the Center for Translation Studies!

[The Center for Translation Studies]

Greetings from the Center for Translation Studies at Barnard College! We're wrapping up Spring 2014 with two great events in one week!

- On Monday, April 28, Barnard's own Peter Platt will present his new book in conversation with Phillip John Usher of the Center for Translation Studies.
- On Friday, May 2 and Saturday, May 3, the Center for Translation Studies and the Columbia Institute for Comparative Literature and Society will present a conference, Crossing Worlds: Translation, Eventfulness, and the Political.

For more information on these events, please see below or visit barnard.edu/translation/calendar
Both of these events are free and open to the public, so don't hesitate to spread the word!


"From Translation All Science Had Its Offspring" : The Florio Translation of the Essays of Michel de Montaigne
On the occasion of the publication of Shakespeare's Montaigne, a modernized and annotated edition of John Florio’s 1603 translation of Montaigne’s Essays (NYRB, 2014), please join us for an evening with with the book's co-editor, Peter Platt, Department of English, Barnard College, in conversation with Phillip John Usher, Department of French, Barnard College

Monday, April 28, 2014 - 6:30 PM - James Room, 4th Floor, Barnard Hall, Barnard College (Broadway and 117th, New York City)

Information: barnard.edu/translation/florio

Organized by The Center for Translation Studies at Barnard College and New York Review Books, with the participation of the Department of English and the Department of French, Barnard College.


Crossing Worlds: Translation, Eventfulness and the Political, a conference organized by the Center for Translation Studies at Barnard College and the Columbia Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, with the generous co-sponsorship of the Maison Française, the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, the Department of French and Romance Philology, and the Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University.

May 2 and 3, 2014 (Held at Barnard College and the Columbia Maison Française)

With the participation of: Emily Apter (NYU), Tamara Chin (Brown), Peter Connor (Barnard), Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Columbia), Karen Van Dyck (Columbia), Brent Edwards (Columbia), Nergis Ertürk (Penn State), Stathis Gourgouris (Columbia), Michael Hill (University of South Carolina), Lydia Liu (Columbia), Rosalind Morris (Columbia), Brian O'Keeffe (Barnard), Avital Ronell (NYU), Naoki Sakai (Cornell), Shaden Tageldin (University of Minnesota), Phillip John Usher (Barnard), Hent de Vries (Johns Hopkins), and David Wills (Brown).

Information: barnard.edu/translation/crossingworlds