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Japan Translates: Words between Languages from Classics to Hyperculture
Graduate student symposium organized by Jordan Smith.
Saturday, October 25, 2008
8:30 AM - 6:30 PM
306 Royce
Panel One:
8:45-10:30
"Translation of Multi-lingual Texts and Translationscapes"
Panel Two:
10:45-12:30
"Gender and Japanese Women's Language and Culture in Translation"
Lunch
12:30-1:30
Presentations:
1:30-1:50
Yoshihiro Nihei, Japan Foundation- Translation Support from the Japan Foundation
Representative, Babel- UCLA Translation Society
Representative, ALTA- Association of Literary Translators of America
Panel Three:
2:00-3:45
"Reflections on Co-translation and the Translation Process"
Keynote Address:
4:00-5:30
Professor Indra Levy, Stanford University
"Between Cultural Translation and a Culture of Translation"
Address to be followed by open discussion.
