Rethinking Translation

RETHINKING TRANSLATION SPEAKERS: Magdaléna Platzová, Writer; Alex Zucker, Translator Moderator: Jonathan Bolton, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University Life after Kafka, Magdalena Platzová’s newest novel, tells the story of...

RETHINKING TRANSLATION SPEAKER: Shahla Ujayli, Author; Michelle Hartman, McGill University The Rethinking Translation seminar, together with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, is pleased to host a conversation between Syrian...

RETHINKING TRANSLATION SPEAKER: Colton Valentine, Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows What does it mean to translate an author into one of her own languages? This talk explores that question through the case of Vernon Lee, a late-Victorian polymath...

RETHINKING TRANSLATION SPEAKER: Yasmine Seale, Fellow, Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library Yasmine Seale is a poet, artist, and translator. She has published numerous translations from Arabic, among them The Annotated Arabian...

RETHINKING TRANSLATION SPEAKERS: Daniel Hahn

RETHINKING TRANSLATION SPEAKERs: Alex Averbuch, Davis Center, Harvard University; Anne Fischer, Independent Translator This conversation between translator Anne Fisher and poet Alex Averbuch will touch on such questions as collaboration and curation, as...

RETHINKING TRANSLATION SPEAKER: Jennifer Nelson, Hilles Bush Fellow, Harvard Radcliffe Institute and Associate Professor Department of Art History University of Delaware Memes, among other things, are an efficient technology for the construction of the...

RETHINKING TRANSLATION SPEAKERS: Bakhtyar Ali (Author); Kareem Abdulrahman (translator, Kurdish affairs analyst) Politics has at least two faces in Ali’s works. While his characters are in a constant search to prove their humanity, politics often appears...

RETHINKING TRANSLATION SPEAKER: Iman Mersal, Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature in Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta Iman Mersal is Egypt’s―indeed, the Arab world’s―great outsider poet. Over the past...