This Tuesday, Luise von Flotow  (PhD, Michigan, pictured at left participating in Monday’s panel), Professor and Director of the School of Translation and Interpretation at the University of Ottawa, gave a Rackham Centennial Alumni lecture tracing the effect of what in the 1980s was labelled feminist translation on the developing discipline of Translation Studies.

On Thursday, the Penny W. Stamps Lecture Series welcomed YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES. The Seoul-based duo, known for videos that “translate” across languages, media, and genres to question contemporary social and cultural conditions, as they addressed students at the Michigan Theater in conjunction with their installation currently on view at the UM Museum of Art.

As part of his theme semester course on Spain and the Modern Arab World, Professor Eric Calderwood has organized a lecture series about various “translations” of Spain’s Islamic past by modern Spanish and Arab writers and musicians. The first lecture this Friday featured Johnathan Glasser on Andalusian music in North Africa.

• Video Contest: Where in your world do you see translation?
• Translate a Poem Into Another Medium

These contests are sponsored by other units:

• Comparative Literature Prize in Literary Translation
• Translating Homer: Contexts for Classics Translation Prize
• “It’s GRΣΣΚ to Me!” Modern Greek Program Translation Contest
• German Department Open-Book Translation Contest