The Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan will launch the 2021-22 Mellon Sawyer Seminar: Sites of Translation in the Multilingual Midwest on Monday, February 1 at 2 PM EST.

Funded by the Mellon Foundation, the seminar series draws on interdisciplinary resources within and beyond the University of Michigan to explore various midwestern histories, practices, and cultures of translation.

Join us via Zoom 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 and Translation and Memory: Hispanofilipino Literature and the Archive in the US Midwest.

Learn more about the project and upcoming events by visiting the Mellon Sawyer Seminar: Sites of Translation in the Multilingual Midwest website.

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