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February 23, 2023: Panel Discussion on Blackness in Translation

FOR A VIDEO OF THIS PANEL, CHECK BACK SOON! In a virtual panel held on February 22, 2023, three speakers shared their groundbreaking research on the literary and cultural translation of Blackness. Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez (Michigan State University) is the author of Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mapping of Afro-Atlantic Literature. Ryan James Kernan (Rutgers University) is the […]

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Fall 2022: December 7 Panel Explored Translation, Gaming, and Digital Humanities

Organized as part of the Fall 2022 seminar “Building Translation Networks in the Midwest with HathiTrust,” coordinated by Christi Merrill, the December 7 hybrid panel brought together cutting-edge scholars, translators, and designers to explore the intersection of translation, gaming, and the digital humanities. The event began with the opening remarks by Yopie Prins, who contextualized

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WATCH: Want to Learn How to Play “Tower of Babel: HathiTrust Edition”?

Watch the recording of our November 11 game drop of “Tower of Babel: HathiTrust Edition”! For written instructions click here. Interested in learning more about gaming multilingual works in the digital library? Join us on December 7 for a panel discussion and on December 8 for South Asian Game Night and Multilingual Midwest Challenge!

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Fall 2022: Gaming Multilingual Works in the Digital Library

Please join us for our Fall 2022 Hybrid Events:  November 11 2:00-3:00 PMLanguage Resource Center, 1500 North Quad Game Drop! Learn to play the educational game Tower of Babel: HathiTrust Edition that fosters discovery of fun finds across languages in the digital library. The first hour (2-3 PM) members of the development team will introduce

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WATCH: Fall 2021 Symposium on “Translation and the Making of Arab American Community”

By Graham Liddell On November 12, 2021, an all-day symposium entitled “Translation and the Making of Arab American Community” was held at the University of Michigan. The event brought together civil servants, journalists, poets, literary translators, and academics to discuss the multiple levels at which translation operates in Arab American communities in the Midwest, and

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WATCH: Fall 2021 Virtual Panel Discussion on “Visualizing Translation” Photography Exhibit

On October 9, a virtual panel discussion with photojournalists Peyman Azhari and Theon Delgado, Sr., offered an enriching behind-the-scenes look at capturing the photos featured in “Visualizing Translation: Homeland and Heimat in Detroit and Dortmund.” It also shed light on the curatorial logic behind putting these two projects in conversation.

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Visualizing Translation: Photography Exhibit opens at Ann Arbor Public Library (October 9, 2021)

In October and November 2021, the Ann Arbor District Library will host a photography exhibit, curated by UM Professor Kristin Dickinson. Entitled Homeland and Heimat in Detroit and Dortmund, the exhibit brings together photographs of Southwest Detroit (created by photojournalist Theon Delgado) and Northern Dortmund, Germany (created by photojournalist Peyman Azhari). Shedding light on each

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WATCH: “Translation and Migration”: A Virtual Conversation with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (October 1, 2021)

On October 1, 2021 UM Professor William Stroebel talked with author Karla Cornejo Villavicencio about translation and migration in her debut book of creative non-fiction, The Undocumented Americans. They discussed the he roles, methods, and uses of translation lurking behind and inside the pages of her book: translation between languages, translation between dialects and registers,

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Translation for the Community: U Michigan celebrates Tenth Annual Translate-a-Thon (October 1-2, 2021)

REGISTER HERE to participate on October 1-2, 2021! We invite community members of all ages and languages to participate in the annual Translate-a-Thon at the University of Michigan on October 1-2, 2021. A Translate-a-Thon is a short, intense, community-driven translation marathon, where volunteers interested in translation come together to translate materials for the benefit of

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