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GRADUATE STUDENT TRANSLATION CONFERENCE
Columbia University, Friday March 28th - Sunday March 30th, 2008
This three-day graduate student conference on translation has many events open to the public. These are listed below. This site will be updated as more information becomes available. For more information about the Graduate Student Translation Conference itself, please contact us
| Friday, March 28 |
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7:30pm |
Translation Reading with Circumference and Words Without Borders, featuring: Karen Emmerich, translator of Poems (1945-1971) by Miltos Sachtouris; Idra Novey, translator of The Clean Shirt of It by Paulo Henriques Britto; Lisa Lubasch, translator of Paul Éluard's A Moral Lesson; Peter Wortsman, translator of Heinrich Heine, Robert Musil, and others.
Conference Opening Remarks by Henry Pinkham, GSAS Dean
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| Saturday, March 29 |
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2 - 3:30pm |
Round Table 1: Multilingualism and Translation
Elizabeth Beaujour, Debashree Dattaray, Karen Van Dyck, Alyson Waters, Meg Furniss Weisberg.
Moderator: Lytton Smith
301 Philosophy Hall
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Round Table 2: Translation and Publishing
Jennifer Kronovet (Circumference), Chad Post (Open Letter, Dalkey Archive Press), Jill Schoolman (Archipelago Books), Robert Weil (W.W. Norton).
Moderator: Idra Novey
413 Dodge Hall
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| 4 - 5:30pm |
Round Table 3: Translation and Canon Formation
David Bellos, Christina Burneo, Ram Devineni, Dedi Felman.
Moderator: Karen Emmerich
413 Dodge Hall
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Round Table 4: Translation and the Academy
Susan Bernofsky, Jason Grunebaum, Alfred MacAdam, Richard Sieburth.
Moderator: Mary Kate Hurley.
301 Philosophy Hall
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| 6:15 - 7:30pm |
Keynote: Charles Simic in conversation with Michael Scammell
Introduced by Catharine Nepomnyashchy, Director, Harriman Institute. This event is sponsored by the Harriman Institute.
Casa Italiana, Teatro
Map: www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/tour/casa_italiana/map.html
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| Sunday March 30 |
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| 2 - 3:30pm |
Round Table 5: Translation and Theory
Emrah Efe Cakmak, Patricia Dailey, Anna Guercio, Frances Pritchett.
Moderator: Audrey Truschke
301 Philosophy Hall
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Round Table 6: Translation:
Ethics, Censorship, Speaking Out
Thomas Anessi, Nathalie Handal, Lucas Klein, Becka McKay, Eliot Weinberger.
Moderator: Stefania Heim
413 Dodge Hall |
The Graduate Student Translation Conference is supported and funded by generous contributions from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Harriman Institute, the Graduate School of the Arts, the Center for Literary Translation at Columbia University, the Writing Division, the English Department, Open Letter, Circumference, and Words Without Borders.
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