Theme Semester Newsletter #3

Just in time for the translation theme semester, the Language Resource Center has launched their new Language Bank, to provide translation services to the university community. This online resources matches Michigan students, faculty, staff interested in translating with those around campus and in the area who are looking for translation or interpretation. Do you have a translation or interpretation project? Click here to request a translator. Would you like to volunteer to translate? Sign up here!

If you haven’t yet seen it, we recommend taking a look at the exhibit entitled “Translating Homer: From Papyri to Alexander Pope” presented by the Special Collections and Papyrology Libraries, open now through October 7 in the Audubon Room, Hatcher Graduate Library. See this press release for more information. Coming up next Monday at 4pm, there will be a panel discussion of the exhibit with UM faculty members. The panelists will include Pablo Alvarez (UM Library), Richard Janko (Classical Studies), Karla Mallette (Romance Languages and Near Eastern Studies), Yopie Prins (Comparative Literature), Ruth Scodel (Classical Studies), and Sean Silver (English Literature). Click here to see the poster.

Following the panel discussion next Monday, please join us for a reception, 5:30-7pm, also in the Hatcher Library Gallery, to celebrate the Translating Homer exhibit and the launch of the theme semester.

We also invite you to join us for Translation Mondays at 2435 North Quad. In September we join forces with the Global Scholars program to co-host film screenings followed by informal discussion. Looking ahead to October, we will feature a reading on October 1 by various translators, celebrating the second issue of the undergraduate magazine of literary translations, Canon Translation Review. On October 8 we follow up with a panel of translators, editors, and professors: “How to Become a Literary Translator.” As the semester continues, be on the lookout for an evening of fun with translation (translation karaoke!), a panel on medical and technical translation, and a presentation about the invention of Google Translate.

As always, please contact Patrick Tonks with any questions about the theme semester or any of the events listed here.

Upcoming Events, September 19-25

Translating Homer: Panel Discussion with UM faculty – in response to the special collections exhibit in the Hatcher Library Audubon Room. Followed by a reception. See this poster for more information.
Monday, September 24th, 4pm, Graduate Library Gallery

North Quad Translation Mondays – After the success this past Monday of our first film screening, followed by lively discussion of the documentary Speaking in Tongues, we are happy to announce a second screening this coming Monday. We hope you’ll join us for movie-themed snacks and a showing of We Still Live Here (Âs Nutayuneân), a remarkable story of language revival and cultural translation by the Wampanoag of Southeastern Massachusetts..
Monday, September 24th, 7-9:30pm, 2435 North Quad