2:00-3:00 PM EST || February 1, 2021
We are excited to announce the launch of our two-year Mellon Sawyer Seminar: Sites of Translation in the Multilingual Midwest. Funded by the Mellon Foundation, this seminar series draws on interdisciplinary resources within and beyond the University of Michigan to explore diverse midwestern histories and cultures of translation.
Join us via Zoom at 2pm on February 1, 2021 to meet the Sawyer Seminar team, learn about our shared project, and hear about this semester’s seminars: Jewish Multilingualism in the Midwest: Yiddish Translations of Urban Experience (directed by Maya Barzilai) and Translation and Memory: Hispanofilipino Literature and the Archive in the US Midwest (directed by Marlon James Sales).
Presenters will include Barbara Alvarez (UM Library), Maya Barzilai (Middle East Studies and Judaic Studies), Kristin Dickinson (German and Middle East Studies), Julie Evershed (Language Resource Center), Julia Irion Martins (Comparative Literature), Marina Mayorski (Comparative Literature), Philomena Meechan (Language Resource Center), Christi Merrill (Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature), Benjamin Paloff (Slavic Languages and Comparative Literature), Yopie Prins (English and Comparative Literature), Marlon James Sales (Critical Translation Studies), and Silke-Maria Weineck (German and Comparative Literature).