| 2007 Faculty
Fellows Conference:
Translation and Representation
Friday,
March 23rd
Alumni
House
Free and open to the public!
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here for speaker biographies and abstracts
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schedule!
(as of February 10, 2007)
Keynote
Speakers:
Lawrence Venuti
(English, Temple University)
Author of The Translator's Invisibility: A History
of Translation (2005) and The Scandals of Translation:
Towards an Ethics of Difference (1998)
"Translation,
Intertextuality, Interpretation"
Mary Louise
Pratt (Social & Cultural Analysis and Spanish, New York University)
Author of Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Trasculturation
(1992)
"Beyond Translation: Toward a Geolinguistic
Imagination"
Wayne State
Speakers include:
Michael Goldfield,
Professor of Political Science - "Translation, Representation,
and (Mis)Interpretation in Marx's Kapital"
Barrett Watten,
Professor of English - "Translating Authority: Adorno's Cultural
Work in The Authoritarian Personality"
Aaron Retish,
Assistant Professor of History - "Peasants In a Modern State:
Pwer and Identity in Russia's Age of War and Revolution 1914 - 1921"
Jeffrey Abt,
Associate Professor of Art and Art History - "Picturing Writing
Pictures: From Representation to Translation in the Historiography
of Egyptology"
James Thomas,
Professor of Theatre - "Translation of The Wisdom of Rehearsal
by Russian director Anatoly Efros (1925 - 1987)"
Victor Figueroa,
Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures - "A
Revolution by Any Other Name? Pan-Caribbean Representation of the
Haitian Revolution"
Anne Duggan,
Associate Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures - "The
Tragic Story: An Exercise in Translation"
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