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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 […]

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

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!

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

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