B2: Critical Translation Studies: New Crossings

Seminar Leaders: Lydia Liu, University of Michigan, Christi Merrill, University of Michigan, and Yopie Prins, University of Michigan

Friday, April 16, 10:30 AM  – 12:30 PM, Grande Ballroom 2

Lydia Liu, University of Michigan: “Who was the Barbarian?”

Jonathan Zwicker, University of Michigan: “Commodities of the Imagination: Translation and the Literary Market”

Patricia Sieber, Ohio State University: “Translating Early Chinese Song-Drama circa 1829: Print Technology, Philology, and the Formation of Comparative Literary Studies”

Geeta Patel, Wellesley College: “Translating Capital: Compensation for Death and the Recuperation of Life”

Saturday, April 17, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Grande Ballroom 2

Yopie Prins, University of Michigan: “Notes on Metrical Translation”

Virginia Jackson, New York University: “Longfellow’s Languages”

Meredith Martin, University of Michigan: “‘Singing From the Other Side’: Hopkins’s Foreign Meters in Owen’s England”

Martin Harries, New York University: “Bertolucci’s Translations of Marx’s Mole”

Sunday, April 18, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Grande Ballroom 2

Sherry Simon, Concordia University: “Montreal: Translating a Divided City”

Karen Van Dyck, Columbia University: “Diaspora Literature and Translation Theory”

Shaden Tageldin, University of California – Berkeley: “Transplanting Englishness into Egypt: Muhammad al-Siba’i’s Translations of Carlyle and Dickins, 1911-1912”

Christi Merrill, University of Michigan: “Seeds of Discontent: Re-creation and the Bounds of Ownership”