B9: Translationality

Seminar Leader: Sandra Berman, Princeton University

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

Sandra Bermann, Princeton University: “Translationality”

Meredith Finkelstein, New York University – Tisch School of the Arts: “The Grammar of Protocols: Translating Information in Empire”

Gabriela Stoicea, University of Illinois: “Translation as Medium: The Search for Social Meaning in Contemporary Romanian Advertising”

Valerie Karno, University of Rhode Island: “Legal Translation in Dictee”

Seo-Young Jennie Chu, Harvard University: “Dislocation and Echolocation in Dictee”

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

Thomas Beebee, Pennsylvania State University: “Inside the Black Box: Transmesis and Postcolonial Reason”

Amira El-Zein, Tufts University: “‘Love in Two Languages’: A Translation Theory”

Michael Wood, Princeton University: “The Fiction of Translation”

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

Soelve Curdts, Princeton University: “Signs, Subjects, and the Age of Translation”

Cecile Chu-chin Sun, University of Pittsburgh: “Translationality and Transnationality: A Chinese Pespective”

Jacob B.P. Edmond, Harvard University: “Translation and the Globalization of Poetry”