Events
2012 - 2013
FALL 2012
Translation Lunch Series will be held on Mondays at noon in 216 Aaron Burr Hall. Lunch will be provided. Please register with Rebecca Aguas.
 September 17, 2012
https://webshare.princeton.edu/users/piirs/pdf/TRA%20Buchholz%209-17-12.pdf
Benjamin Buchholz, Graduate Student, Department of Near Eastern Studies;
Foreign Area Officer, US Army
September 24, 2012
103: Rhythm in Arthur Waley’s Translation of Chinese Poetry
Thomas Mazanec, Ph.D. candidate, East Asian Studies
October 1, 2012
104: The Histories and Strategies of Translation of the Mahabharata, Great Indian Epic
Frederick Smith, University of Iowa
Cosponsored with the Program in South Asian Studies
October 8, 2012
No Meeting
October 15, 2012
105: Naomi in Ruth
Ronald Hyman, Rutgers University, emeritus
October 22, 2012
106: Renaissance Mistranslation and Literary Creation
Francois Rigolot, Department of French and Italian
 November 5, 2012
107: Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Can We Find It, and Could We Converse?
Seth Shostak, SETI Institute
November 12, 2012
108: Solomon au feminin: Medieval French Bible Translation and the Case of Christine de Pizan’s Proverbs 31:10-31
Jeanette Patterson, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of French and Italian
November 19, 2012
109: Translating the Foreign Accent of the Immigrant: Gringlish, Gralbanian and Contemporary Greek Literature
Karen Van Dyck, Columbia University
November 26, 2012
110: Translating the Dog: Function and Meaning in Animal Communication
Mark Feinstein, Hampshire College
December 3, 2012
111: Translating Western Anatomy in Early Nineteenth-Century Japan
Mathias Vigouroux, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of East Asian Studies
December 10, 2012
112:Translation in Endangered Language Documentation and Revitalization
Saul Schwartz, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology
SPRING 2013
The Translation Lunch Series will be held on Mondays at noon in 216 Aaron Burr Hall--unless otherwise noted. Lunch will be provided. Please register with Rebecca Aguas.
 February 4, 2013
113: Terence and the Invention of Translation
Leon Grek,
Comparative Literature
February 11, 2013
114: Lee’s Miserables: Censoring Victor Hugo for the Confederate States of America
Jessica Christy ‘13
Department of Religion
February 18, 2013
115: Proustofuturism: Imagined Languages in Marcel Proust's Correspondence with Reynaldo Hahn
Rubén Gallo, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures; Director, Program in Latin American Studies
February 25, 2013
116: The Power of Language--The Language of Power: Leveraging Core Humanitarian Principles to Improve Multilingual Communication in the Field
Barbara Moser-Mercer, University of Geneva
March 4, 2013
117: Child Language Brokering in Princeton's Hispanic Immigrant Community
David Abugaber ‘14
Linguistics
March 11, 2013
118: Double Exposure: Lin Shu's Translation of Oliver Twist and the Social Vision of Chinese Fiction
Michael Gibbs Hill, University of South Carolina
March 18, 2013
Spring Break
 March 25, 2013
119: Do Publishers Have a Theory of Translation? What We Think About When We Think About Commissioning a Translation
Helen Conford, Penguin Press, London
April 1, 2013
120: Futile but Necessary Interdisciplinary Translations: The Case of Legal Language
Elizabeth Mertz, University of Wisconsin Law School
April 8, 2013
121: Nineteen Ways of Translating Sarrasine
Jordan Stump, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
April 15, 2013
122: Translating and Transposing Medieval French Lais
Sophie Marnette, University of Oxford
April 22, 2013
123:Translating Diglossia: A Cultural and Ethical Question
Christine Raguet, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
April 29, 2013
124: Translating Italian Poetry: Leopardi and Montale
Jonathan Galassi, Farrar, Straus Giroux
219 Aaron Burr Hall
*note room change
The series will continue in the next semester.
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