Today and Tomorrow! Crossing Worlds: Translation, Eventfulness, and the Political

[The Center for Translation Studies]

Greetings from the Center for Translation Studies!

We're thrilled to present Crossing Worlds, Translation, Eventfulness, and the Political - a two-day conference starting TODAY!

Full schedule: barnard.edu/translation/crossingworlds

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 (James Room, 4th floor of Barnard Hall) and May 3 (Columbia Maison Française, Buell Hall), 2014 (click locations for maps)

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).