Boston University Geddes Language Center has made its entire 2020 lecture series in literary translation available in free access online. On the agenda:
Each Language… It’s Own Melody
Robert Pinsky
How “Bad” Translations Made “Good” Literature: The Dostoevsky On The Pampas Case
Adel Adel Fauzetdinova
Translating Yiddish Literature In The Americas: Transnational Perspectives
Chantal Ringuet
Translation as Hallucination
Ilan Stavans
Syntax and Microsuspense: Translating Word Order
Jennifer Croft
Crossing the River from One’s Native into an Acquired Language
Danuta Borchardt (transcript)
From Berberova to Slavnikova: My Decades Translating Russian Women Writers
Marian Schwartz
Tongue-Tied Internationalism: Adventures with a Soviet Setting, an Egyptian Novel, and an Indian Press
Margaret Litvin
Guillermo Martínez & Alberto Manguel
Writing in Two Voices. Guillermo Martinez and Alberto Manguel on Alicia/Alice and The Murders in Wonderland
Translating Classics: Balzac and Pla
Peter Bush
Listen and watch on BU.edu.
