Welcome to the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication

The Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication offers a diverse curriculum that allows undergraduates to develop their understanding of translation issues from varied perspectives. Students develop skills in language use and an understanding of the complexity of communicating across cultures, nations, and linguistic borders. Navigate this Web site with the buttons to the left to learn more about the program and the requirements for an undergraduate Certificate of Proficiency.

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Job openings for student translators can now be found under Opportunities

Translation Events at Barnard College

Geneva International Students Program (GISP) offers an interdisciplinary study abroad semester at the University of Geneva. For more information contact Ainsley.Brown@unige.ch or visit the GISP website...

Regulations for the Undergraduate Certificate in Translation and Intercultural Communication
The requirements for the certificate, posted on this site under "Courses," can also be found in the Undergraduate Announcement.

 

Upcoming Events and Deadlines

SPRING 2012

Translation Lunch Series
Noon
216 Aaron Burr Hall
Lunch is provided. Please register with Rebecca Aguas.

 

PART I

February 6
Learning the New Time: Reading Western Clocks in Early 19th-century Japan
Yulia Frumer
Ph.D. Candidate, Program in History of Science

February 13
Between Translation and Commentary: Non-Arabic Renderings of the Qur'an in Early 20th-century Egypt and South Asia
Amin Venjara
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Religion

February 27
"For nother is there anie matter more straunge in the englishe tungue": Translating Euclidean Diagrams at the Dawn of "Englishe Geometrie"
Michael Barany
Ph.D. Candidate, Program in History of Science

March 5
Translating Roberto Bolaño
Natasha Wimmer
Translator

March 12
Writing in Translation
Rebecca Walkowitz
Rutgers University

PART II

March 26
Translating, Editing, Publishing
Mitzi Angel
Publisher, Faber & Faber

April 2
Breeding Lyrics from the Dead Land: Sophocles’ ‘Ode on Old Age’
Oliver Taplin
University of Oxford

April 9
Horatius Interpres: Varieties of Translation in Horace’s Poetry
Adam Gitner
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Classics

April 16
Translating Verne: A Triple Betrayal
Bill Butcher
Author

April 23
Nonfictional Discourse and the Translating Subject
Catherine Porter
Cornell University

April 30
Translation 101: Fish Source
David Bellos
Department of French and Italian

The series will continue in the next semester.