TOMORROW: Translation Studies Conference at Barnard

[The Center for Translation Studies]

Greetings from the Center for Translation Studies at Barnard College!

We write to remind you that our 5th annual conference starts tomorrow, Friday, May 1 and continues through Saturday, May 2.

The conference schedule is below, and more details are available on our website, at barnard.edu/translation/translation-in-transition

This event is free and open to the public - please spread the word!

Friday, May 1 - Please note new location: Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd floor, Barnard Hall (Campus Map)

2:00-4:00pm	Panel: Frontiers and Futures of Translation: The Machine Age, the Age of the Digital Humanities John Cayley (Brown University): "The Translation of Literary Process" Miguel A. Jiménez-Crespo (Rutgers University): "Translated Texts in Digital Spaces: Collaborative Translation and the Challenges to Translation Theory" Audrey Lorberfeld (University of Washington): "Are You My Mother? An Exploration of Bibliographic Relationships of Translated Documents" Mairi McLaughlin (University of California - Berkeley): "The History of News Translation and its Place in our Discipline" Moderated by Peter Connor (Barnard College)
4:00-4:30pm	Coffee
4:30-6:30pm	Panel: Sites, Nodes, Networks, and Habitats of Translation Michelle Woods (State University of New York - New Paltz): "Archiving Agency: the Materiality of the Translation Biblio-System" Ahmad Ayyad (Al-Quds University): "Translation and Political Marketing: Selling the Geneva Accord to the Palestinians and Israelis" Janet Hendrickson (Cornell University): "To Show the Truth by Allowing it to be Seen Hiding: the Functions of Lexical Excess in Anne Carson's Nox" Corine Tatchiris (University of Massachusetts - Amherst): "Branding World Literature: Translation at the Intersection of the Market and Academia" Moderated by Brian O'Keeffe (Barnard College)

Saturday, May 2 - James Room, 4th floor, Barnard Hall (Campus Map)

10:00am-12:00pm	Panel: Figures and Fables of the Translator Bahareh Gharehgozlou (Kent State University): "Translation Criticism: English Translation of The Shahnameh by Dick Davis" Adriana Vega Mackler (University of Connecticut): "Vistas of the Present: Translation and Representation in Salvador Benesdra and Rodolfo Rabanal" Meg Matich (Columbia University): Iceland: Rewriting Notions of Ice and Fire through Poetry Translation" Marko Miletich (University of Texas - Arlington): Dragomans Gaining Footing: Translators as Usurpers in Two stories by Rodolfo Walsh and Moacyr Scliar" Moderated by Heather Cleary (Whitman College)
12:00-1:00pm	Break
1:15-3:15pm	Panel: Topoi: The "Otherwheres" of Translation Brian James Baer (Kent State University): "Translation and the Un-making of Literary Studies" Nimrod Reitman (New York University): "A Diva on Mute: Pasolini's Medea" Jamille Pinheiro Dias (Stanford University/University of São Paulo): "Utopias and Dystopias of Translation in the Ontological Turn: Implications of the Method of Controlled Equivocation" Jenine Abboushi (Lebanese American University): "The Chosen Language: West Asia's New Non-native Productions" Moderated by Bret Maney (University of Pennsylvania)
3:15-3:45pm	Coffee
3:45-5:45pm	Panel: Generation, Alteration, Translation Carolyn Shread (Mount Holyoke College): "Translation: Epigenesis of the Text" James Petterson (Wellesley College): "Emmanuel Hocquard: 'Taches Blanches' in Translation" Geoffrey Bennington (Emory University): "The Angel and the Beast" Moderated by Nimrod Reitman (New York University)
5:45-6:00pm	Coffee
6:00-7:00pm	Round-table Topic: "Teaching Translation" Susan Bernofsky (Columbia University) Peter Connor (Barnard College) Marguerite Feitlowitz (Bennington College)
7:00-7:15pm	Closing Remarks Peter Connor (Barnard College)