Friday, November 22, 2024, 3pm-7:30pm. Symposium: Translating the Multilingual, organized by Prof. Paola Iovene (EALC) with support from the Center for East Asian Studies with a Title VI National Resource Center Grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The symposium will take place in the afternoon of Friday, November 22, and consists of two parts: a 90-min panel conversation with Jennifer Feeley, May Huang, and Tammy Lai Ming Ho at 3PM, followed by a tea/coffee break, and a keynote lecture by Tammy Lai Ming Ho at 5PM, followed by a reception.
Thursday, November 21 at 4:30pm. Poetry reading with Tammy Ho (Hong Kong) as part of symposium. Translating the Multilingual will focus on the translation of texts that are not linguistically homogeneous: texts that mingle Mandarin with Cantonese and English, for instance, and as such present peculiar challenges to the translators. The aim of the symposium is to learn about the diverse strategies adopted by the translators and to brainstorm on how to reconceptualize translation in light of these practices.
Wednesday, November 13 at 12pm. Harper Memorial 130. "A Multitude of Voices: Editing Isabella Andreini’s “Lettere” in English Translation.” Please join us to hear from Professor Caterina Mongiat Farina (De Paul University) who will discuss her recent book edition and translation (together with Paola Di Santo) of Andreini’s Letters. This presentation will introduce the many voices of Isabella’s Letters and how they challenged and inspired this edition in English translation. This is the second event of Hot Off the Press! Recent Research in Early Modern Italian Studies, and is co-sponsored by TAPS and Translation Studies.
Tuesday, October 29 at 6pm at South Asia Institute. Translating South Asia: An evening in Chicago. Join International Booker Prize winning translator Daisy Rockwell, JCB Prize winning Malayalam translator Jayasree Kalathil, and others read from their translations from Bangla, Hindi, Malayalam, Panjabi, Sinhala, Tamil, and more. South Asian Literature in Translation (SALT) and the South Asia Institute (SAI) are thrilled to host this first-of-its-kind event in Chicago to celebrate the literary richness of South Asia.
Tuesday, October 29 at 12:30pm at 5733 S University Ave. A Bridge of Words / Puente de palabras: A Reading and Conversation with Irma Pineda & Wendy Call. Join us for a lunchtime talk at The University of Chicago’s Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture. Critically acclaimed Oaxaca-based poet Irma Pineda will share readings from her trilingual Isthmus Zapotec/Spanish/English collection, Nostalgia Doesn’t Flow Away Like River Water (Deep Vellum, 2024), translated to English by Wendy Call. Following the reading, Pineda and Call will discuss the process of translation and bilingual writing, advocacy of the preservation of indigenous languages and cultures in Mexico, and the place of poetry in activist work. Hosted and moderated by Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Rachel Galvin. A light lunch will be provided.
Past events can be viewed on the Translation Studies Youtube Channel
Monday, May 6th at 4:30pm at the Social Sciences Tea Room (201). Michael Cooperson will be visiting UChicago to speak about Translation Al-Hariri's "Impostures."
Wednesday, April 10th at 4:30pm at the Franke Institute for the Humanities. Giancarlo Huapaya, founder of Cardboard House Press, will be visiting UChicago to speak about "Bookmaking, Editing, Translating, and Cartonera Publishing."
Wednesday, February 28th at 4:30pm in the Social Sciences Tea Room (201). UChicago Literary Translation Prize Reading with poet-translator Oksana Maksymchuk and Student Prize Winners. Refreshments will be served.
Monday, January 22, 6pm in the Logan Center for the Arts, Penthouse Room 901. Translator and poet Rebecca Kosick will speak about "The Secret Art of Poetry: Hélio Oiticica." Kosick's translations of Oiticica's poetry appear alongside his artwork and facsimiles of his handwritten poems in a new volume. Presented by the Open Practice Committee in the Department of Visuals Arts and Translation Studies.
Monday, October 30th at 12pm in Wieboldt 408. Award-winning translator Daniel Hahn (UK) discusses the world of translation and the exciting new South Asian Literature in Translation project he co-founded with Jason Grunebaum (UChicago). Hahn is the former Chair of the Translators Association (UK) and the British Centre for Literary Translation. Light refreshments will be served.
Wednesday, October 18th at 12pm. Acclaimed writer and translator Adalber Salas Hernández (Venezuela/Mexico City) discusses the process of translating and being translated. Rosenwald 405. Brown bag lunch. Light refreshments will be served.
Wednesday, October 4th at 4:00 pm. Reading & Discussion. Ukrainian poet-translators Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky read from and discuss their anthology Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine
Rosenwald 405. Refreshments will be served.
Monday, May 1, 2023, 4:30pm. Translation Studies Lecture in Honor of Farouk Mustafa given by Claire Paulian (Université Paris Cité), "De-Europeanizing Ovid's Metamorphoses."
Monday, April 24, 2023, 4:30pm. Experimental Translation Workshop with Matvei Yankelvich (poet, translator, editor of World Poetry Books and founder of Ugly Duckling Presse). Please email faculty organizer Rachel Galvin (rachelgalvin@uchicago) to register.
Thursday, April 20, 2023, 5pm. Reading and Conversation with Cuban American writer Achy Obejas (novelist, poet, translator, self-translator).
“Literary Transversals: Modern East Asian and Diasporic Literature” held in-person and over Zoom, this two-day conference brings prominent scholars together at the University of Chicago’s Hyde Park campus and online to explore new cross-disciplinary theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of East Asian literature. Organized by Susan Dan Su and Emily Jungmin Yoon, PhD candidates in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago | April 22-23, 2022
Reading and conversation with Uzbek journalist, novelist and poet Hamid Ismailov, moderated by Leah Feldman, with interlocutors Hoda El Shakry and Vu Tran | April 8, 2022 at 4:00pm
Jazmina Barrera Reading & Conversation on Translation & Non-Fiction with Prof. Lina Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas , hosted by Lit & Luz Festival and UChicago Translation Studies | November 4, 2021 at 5:00pm
Inaugural Translation Studies Lecture in Honor of Farouk Mustafa, "Language, Translation, and the Politics of Solidarity with Palestine," featuring Michelle Hartman (McGill) and Sophia Azeb (UChicago) | November 14, 2021 at 5:00pm
A Dialogue on the Politics of Translation in a Pandemic with Naoki Sakai (Cornell) in conversation with Thomas Lamarre (UChicago) | April 30, 2021 at 3:00pm
Exploratory Translation Colloquium Series: “Napoleon Rivers, Black Studies & Translation as (Anti-Racist) Activism” with John Keene moderated by Jennifer Scappettone | March 2nd 2021 at 6:00pm
Exploratory Translation Colloquium Series: "East-West, On-Off Page Transit" with Haun Saussy, Jennifer Scappettone in conversation with Jonathan Stalling & Sawako Nakayasu | February 23, 2021 at 6:00pm
Exploratory Translation Colloquium Series: "Translation and Language Justice in Border Zones" with JD Pleucker, Jen Hofer (Antena Aire Collective) & Don See Choi, moderated by Rachel Galvin | February 16, 2021 at 6:00pm
Exploratory Translation Colloquium Series: "Triple Translation and Decolonization" with Rosa Alcalá, Walther Maradiegue & Edwin Lucero Rinza in conversation and moderated by Edgar Garcia | January 20, 2021 at 6:00pm
A Dialogue on Translating: Are They Women? with Nisha Kommattam and Margaret Sönser Breen, Hosted by the Department of Comparative Literature's Spring Dialogue Series | January 15, 2021, 3:00pm
Raquel Salas Rivera on Self-Translation, hosted by the Center for Latin American Studies, with support from the Creative Writing Program | November 10, 2020 at 4:30pm
A Conversation on Literary Translation with Olivia Lott, Gabriela Jáuregui, Sophie Hughes, and Lucía Cornejo. Hosted by Rachel Galvin. Co-hosted with Lit & Luz Festival | October 5, 2020
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