Rethinking Translation

HISTORY OF THE BOOK SPEAKER: Michael Legaspi, St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary With comment by Gabriel Parlin (Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard). Co-sponsored by the Early Modern Workshop .

RETHINKING TRANSLATION SPEAKERS: Faculty, staff, and student translators at Harvard University Last year’s reading received such enthusiastic praise that we have decided to repeat the event, with new, recent, and forthcoming translation work from faculty...

RETHINKING TRANSLATION SPEAKERS: Shin Hae-uk, Poet and Professor of Creative Writing, Dongduk Women's University; Oh Eun, Poet We invite you for a reading with two of Korea’s most adventurous contemporary poets: Shin Hae-uk, author of Biologicity (2024...

RETHINKING TRANSLATION SPEAKER: Brad Harmon, Johns Hopkins University Brad Harmon will speak about translation, translators... and the people out there who at times *don't* like them. Q&A will follow! Brad Harmon translates from Swedish, other languages...

RETHINKING TRANSLATION SPEAKER: Veronika Tuckerová, Harvard University Please join us in celebrating our colleague Veronika Tuckerová's new book, Reading Kafka in Prague: On Translation, Samizdat, Censorship, Export, and Dissent (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025...

RETHINKING TRANSLATION SPEAKER: Susannah Wright and Scott McGill, Rice University Translators and classicists Susannah Wright and Scott McGill will workshop translations in progress by Harvard students in this session, open to observation by the public...

HISTORY OF THE BOOK SPEAKER: Richard Calis, University of Utrecht Co-sponsored by the Early Modern Workshop .

RETHINKING TRANSLATION SPEAKER: Marek Torčík Memory Burn : Czech author Marek Torčík discusses his prize-winning memoir with Jonathan Bolton and Veronika Tuckerova, Department of Slavic Languages in Literatures About the Speaker Marek Torčík (1993) is a...

RETHINKING TRANSLATION SPEAKERS: Yassin Adnan , Alexander Elinson, and Luke Leafgren Longlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2017, Hot Maroc is a vital portrait of the challenges Moroccans, young and old, face today. Where press...

GERMAN STUDIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES SPEAKERS: Richard Sieburth (New York University), Christian Lehnert (University of Leipizig) Richard Sieburth will present his translations and engage in discussion with Christian Lehnert. About the Speakers Richard...