Description:

Comparative Literary Studies presents

Translation Practices Across Institutional Borders: From the Scholar to the Public

An all day symposium featuring

Mukhtar H. Ali university of illinois  
Xena Amro northwestern  
Micol Bez northwestern  
Laura Brueck northwestern  
Clare Cavanagh northwestern  
Ryan Dohoney northwestern  
Susan Harris words without borders
Rebecca Johnson northwestern  
Ishan Mehandru northwestern  
Paul Naylor  hill museum & manuscript library 
Mauro Nobili university of illinois  
Yopie Prins university of michigan  
Soumya Shailendra northwestern  
William West northwestern

SCHEDULE

January 27, 2023

10:00-10:15
Breakfast and Welcome Remarks by Xena Amro

10:15-11:45
Panel I: Faculty in Dialogue 
Translation Practices and Pedagogy 
Moderator: Clare Cavanagh
Frances Hooper Professor in the Arts & Humanities

Laura Brueck chair, south asian literature & culture
 
Rebecca Johnson  director, middle east & north african studies, associate editor of the journal of arabic literature

William N. West department of english

Ryan Dohoney department of musicology

11:45-12:45
Lunch Break

12:45-2:30
Panel II: Graduate Students in Dialogue
Experiences, Challenges, & Methodologies 
Moderator: Rebecca Johnson

January 27, 2023

10:00-10:15
Breakfast and Welcome Remarks by Xena Amro

10:15-11:45
Panel I: Faculty in Dialogue 
Translation Practices and Pedagogy 
Moderator: Clare Cavanagh
Frances Hooper Professor in the Arts & Humanities

Laura Brueck chair, south asian literature & culture
 
Rebecca Johnson  director, middle east & north african studies, associate editor of the journal of arabic literature

William N. West department of english

Ryan Dohoney department of musicology

11:45-12:45
Lunch Break

12:45-2:30
Panel II: Graduate Students in Dialogue
Experiences, Challenges, & Methodologies 
Moderator: Rebecca Johnson

Ishan Mehandru northwestern 
and Soumya Shailendra northwestern: 
Translators’ Adda: 
Notes Towards Finding a Translational Public

Xena Amro northwestern: 
On Translating an Arab Surrealist Magazine

Micol Bez northwestern: 
Translation, (In)commensurability
 and Epistemic Virtues

2:30-2:45
Coffee Break

2:45-4:15
Panel III: Editors and Translators
Bridging the Divide Between Academia and the Public 

Susan Harris editorial director,
 words without borders: 
Reading the World: 
Publishing Literature in Translation

Yopie Prins english and comparative literature, university of michigan: Translating Michigan 

Mukhtar H. Ali department of religion, 
university of illinois, urbana-champaign:  Knowledge Transmission and the Art of Translating Islamic Mystical Texts

Mauro Nobili department of history, 
university of illinois, urbana-champaign; 
and Paul Naylor cataloger of west african manuscripts at hmml: Maktaba: Making West African Manuscripts Accessible in the Classroom

5:00-7:00
Reception in Harris Hall, 108

Translators’ Adda: 
Notes Towards Finding a Translational Public

Xena Amro northwestern: 
On Translating an Arab Surrealist Magazine

Micol Bez northwestern: 
Translation, (In)commensurability
 and Epistemic Virtues

2:30-2:45
Coffee Break

2:45-4:15
Panel III: Editors and Translators
Bridging the Divide Between Academia and the Public 

Susan Harris editorial director,
 words without borders: 
Reading the World: 
Publishing Literature in Translation

Yopie Prins english and comparative literature, university of michigan: Translating Michigan 

Mukhtar H. Ali department of religion, 
university of illinois, urbana-champaign:  Knowledge Transmission and the Art of Translating Islamic Mystical Texts

Mauro Nobili department of history, 
university of illinois, urbana-champaign; 
and Paul Naylor cataloger of west african manuscripts at hmml: Maktaba: Making West African Manuscripts Accessible in the Classroom

5:00-7:00
Reception in Harris Hall, 108