B15: Cultural Mis/Myth/Translation

Seminar Leader: Madelaine Hron, University of Michgian

Friday, April 16, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Crowne Plaza Room 159

Miriam Margala, University of Rochester: “(Mis) Translation and the Trials of the Foreign”

Lorenz Auf der Maur, Zurich University: “Trans-lating Ethiopia Across Three Continents”

Madelaine Hron, University of Michigan: “Myth-Translating the Immigrant Experience: From Voodoo-Flix to Zombi-Fiction”

Rainer Köppl, University of Vienna: “The Politics of Mis-translation and the Mis-translation of Politics”

Saturday, April 17, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Crowne Plaza Room 159

Anat Zanger, Tel-Aviv University: “Myth/Mis Reading Joan of Arc”

Elizabeth Gruber, Lock Haven University: “‘Why Dream of Marriage with a Foreigner’: Marriage and Miscegenation The Merchant of Venice”

Lan Dong, University of Massachusetts – Amherst: “Inter- and Intranational Translation of Mulan: Transmission and Transformation”

Sunday, April 18, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Crowne Plaza Room 159

Robert Dulgarian, Emerson College: “Crowning Injustice: Humanism, Tacitism, and (In)fidelity in the Poppea of Busenello an Monteverdi”

Antonia Navarro-Tejero, Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages: “Misunderstanding Womanhood: Colonial/Patriarchal Hangover in South-Asian Mythology”

Benzi Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong: “Myth/Mis/Translation Reconsidered: Diaspora, Dialogue, and Dialectics”

Teresa Hron-Vleggaar, Amsterdam Conservatory of Music: “Contemporary Music through Non-Western Techniques: ‘Enriching Our Outlook’ or ‘Mistranslating’ Music?”