Literary Translation Seminar
UNI HU 540
Professor Rosanna Warren
A seminar featuring presentations by translators and commentators on translation from a variety of languages. The Friday lectures, which registered students are required to attend, are also open to the public. Students who take the full Monday and Friday course receive four credits. Competence in a second language is required.
Workshops (registered students): Mondays, 1–4 p.m.
Lectures (open to the public): Fridays, 1–3 p.m.
Spring 2008
Anna Zielinska-Elliott
When East is West and West is East: Translating Murakami in Poland
January 25
Frederick Ahl
The Politics of Translating Greek and Latin Poetry
February 1
Mary Ann Caws
French Contractions: In the Aphoristic Mode
February 8
David McCann
Performance Dimensions of Korean Poetry: Reading, Writing, Translating
February 15
Humphrey Tonkin
The Semantics of Invention: Translation into Esperanto
February 22
Maxim D. Shrayer
Translating Jewish-Russian Literature
February 29
Vincent Katz
Translating Latin Love Poetry:The Challenges of Sextus Propertius
March 7
Patrick Barrron
Well-disposed Silences: Translating Andrea Zanzotto
March 28
Avraham Balaban
The (Lost) Movement from Hebrew Into English
April 4
Peter Cole
The Dream of the Poem: Translating Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain
April 11
Damion Searls
Translation and Virginity: On St. Jerome, Origins, Originals and Translating Rilke
April 18
Erica Weitzman
Strange Fates: Translating Contemporary Poetry from Albania and Kosovo
April 25
Lectures at 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Sixth Floor, Room 625
For further information, call or email Deirdre Habershaw, University Professors Program
(617) 358-1763, dhabersh@bu.edu
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