Rethinking Translation examines theories and approaches to translation, as well as the creative work of translating across languages and aesthetic boundaries. Seminar participants study and compare translations and engage with invited translators, performers, and writers, as well as scholars from a wide range of disciplines such as music, art, religion, folklore, philosophy, and modern and ancient literatures.

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Past Events 2012 - 13

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Ghassan Zaqtan, poet and Fady Joudah, poet and translator
Reading and Discussion
Lawrence Venuti, Temple University
“Translation, Intertextuality, Interpretation”
Christian Wiman, Editor of Poetry magazine
“On Translating Osip Mandelstam”
Stefania Heim, Columbia University
"Translating Poetry"
Richard Beaudoin, Harvard University, and Constantine Finehouse, pianist
“Writing Across Music”

Past Events 2011 - 12

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Christian Hawkey, Pratt Institute
“On Translating, Being Translated, and Creating Ventrakl”
Susan Howe (poet) and David Grubbs (musician)
“Frolic Architecture”
David Ferry, Wellesley College and Richard Thomas, Harvard University
"Translating Vergil"
Jeffrey Schnapp, Harvard University
“Intermedia Translation Practices and Forms of Contamination”