5th Biennial Graduate Student Translation Conference
Friday, May 8th
2-4—Opening Roundtable: “The Future of Literary Translation” with Kaija Straumanis (Open Letter) and Benjamin Paloff (UMich) (Rackham West Conference Room)
4-5:30—Keynote address: Professor Sean Cotter (UT Dallas), “Translating after Eastern Europe” (Rackham West Conference Room)
7:00—“Translators Read their Favorite Translations” at Literati Bookstore (http://www.literatibookstore.com/)
Speaker: M. Asaduddin
Date: April 10, 2015, 12-1:30 pm
Location: 2015 Tisch Hall, Comp Lit Library
CREES Noon Lecture: “The Other Stories in Anna Karenina: A Translator’s Perspective.”
Speaker: Rosamund Bartlett, Writer, Scholar, and Translator
Date: 3/18/2015, 12-1:30 pm
Location: 1636 International Institute/SSWB
East Asia Immersion Workshop SHIFTING MEANINGS: Translation in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Date: 03/16/2015; 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Location: 1636 International Institute/SSWB
Speaker: Florence Vatan, Associate Professor of French and Italian, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Date: January 30, 2015, 12 pm
Location: 2015 Tisch Hall, Comp Lit Library
Speakers: Esther Allen, Laurence Marie, Jadranka Vrsalovic-Carevic
Date: January 22, 2015, 6-8pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Translation at Work: Michigan Conversations on Literary Translation
Speaker: Jill Schoolman (Archipelago Press), Dwayne Hayes (Absinthe)
Date: November 6th, 2014; 5:00PM to 8:00PM
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery (Room 100)
Speaker: Abdilatif Abdalla Poetry Reading (in Swahili with translation read by Kelly Askew)
Date: Wednesday Nov. 5th
Date: October 24-26, 2014
Location: North Quad, Language Resource Center
CSAS Scholarly Lecture Series: Translation, Bilingualism and Hinglish
Deep in the Woods: Translating Upendranath Ashk’s Hindi novel Falling Walls
Date: October 24th, 2014
Speaker: Daisy Rockwell, writer and artist
Location: Comparative Literature Seminar Room, 2018 Tisch Hall
Thinking Other People’s Thoughts: Comprehension, Translation, Versification
Date: October 20th, 2014
Speaker: Brian Holton, Tentie Translation, Roxburghshire, Scotland
Location: 1644 School of Social Work Building
RIW in Literary Translation Workshop with Rachel Tzvia Back
Speaker: Rachel Tzvia Back, Poet, Translator
Date: 09/17/2014; 12:00 PM
Location: Comparative Literature Library, 2015 Tisch Hall
