BU Literary Translation Seminar Series
The Boston University Literary Translation Seminar, offered every spring at BU for almost 40 years, was given shape and nurtured for its first three decades by the distinguished poet and translator Rosanna Warren. The Lecture Series in Literary Translation that accompanies this seminar gave rise to Warren’s anthology The Art of Translation: Voices From the Field (1989). Our guest lecturers have shared both practical and theoretical approaches to translation. They have included many of the most celebrated writers, translators, and translation scholars of the era. This year, we have a full schedule of exciting, edifying lectures lined up!
Lectures are held Fridays 1-3pm in STH 625, at 745 Commonwealth Avenue, and are open to the campus community and the public.
Schedule:
March 16, 2018: Kerim Yasar
Burn While Reading: Subtitle Translation and Poetics of the Impossible
March 23, 2018: Charlie Louth
Poem upon Poem: Poets Translating Poets
April 6, 2018: Michael Katz
Translation Matters:
April 13, 2018: Anthony Chambers
Tanizaki’s Reader on Style: Theodore Dreiser, National Character, and Translation
April 20, 2018: Lindsey D. Snyder
Surely You Gesture: Translating Shakespeare into American Sign Language
For more information, click through to https://www.bu.edu/translation/guest-lecturers/ or send an email to kenalba@bu.edu.