Oct 17, 2021
Online
Translation as Educational Inflection Point: How Do We Make this Happen?, Part 2
Translation as Educational Inflection Point: How Do We Make this Happen?, Part 2
We’ll discuss how translation study and practice can help in opening up/complicating “majors” and other courses of interdisciplinary study, paths to/modes of political engagement, resistance to repressive structures (of thought, historical assumptions/blind spots, generic/canonical “rules” and “boundaries”), and activism (including for language rights, on behalf of the forcibly displaced, of refugees, of authors suffering censorship and worse).
What networks can we establish to connect our undergrads and provide opportunities? Format: We ask that participants share descriptions of readings, exercises, and assignments. How do students connect translation classroom work to the rest of their complex, often multilingual, multiethnic, multiracial lives? What do they want to create? How best can we abet them?
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Organizers
Marguerite Feitlowitz’s most recent translation is Small Bibles for Bad Times: Selected Poems and Prose by Liliane Atlan (2021). Supported by an NEA Fellowship, she is translating two books by Chilean poet Ennio Moltedo. She has also translated Griselda Gambaro, Salvador Novo, and Luisa Valenzuela. A Professor at Bennington College, she is Founding Director of the multi-disciplinary translation program. Regina Galasso is Associate Professor and Director of the Translation Center at UMass Amherst. She is the author of Translating New York: The City’s Languages in Iberian Literatures, winner of the MLA Northeast Annual Book Award. She is preparing This is a Classic: Translation and Survival and a monograph on Edward Hopper in Iberian literatures.