Tag Archives: Lectures
Why Translation Matters
Thursday, October 15, 2009 Memorial Union, Room 109, 4:00 p.m. David S. Luft, Horning Professor in the Humanities, OSU Professor Luft will present the first in a series of five lectures on the theme of translation. He will introduce this … Continue reading
A Life in Translation
Thursday, November 15, 2009 Memorial Union, Journey Room, 4:00 p.m. Professor Michael Henry Heim, University of California, Los Angles Michael Henry Heim published his first translation, a collection of Chekhov’s letters, in 1972 and has regularly published translations of contemporary … Continue reading
Translation, Intertextuality, Interpretation
Thursday, February 11, 2010 Memorial Union, Journey Room, 4:00 p.m. Lawrence Venuti, Temple University Intertextuality enables and complicates translating, preventing it from being an untroubled communication and opening the translation to interpretive possibilities that vary with audiences in the receiving … Continue reading
The Future of Translation
Thursday, May 13, 2010 Memorial Union, Journey Room, 4:00 p.m. Burton Pike, City University of New York Literary translation is a complex activity that has always been dependent on changes in culture and language. Over the past century these changes … Continue reading
Translation Is Writing: Borges in/on Translation
Thursday, May 27, 2010 Memorial Union, Journey Room, 4:00 p.m. Suzanne Jill Levine, University of California, Santa Barbara This lecture illustrates how essential Borges’ broad understanding of translation was to his poetics and practices as a writer. The implications of … Continue reading