Past Events

Please join Prof. Baba Badji and the graduate students from his current grad seminar "Translation as Critique" for the upcoming day-long symposium dedicated to Translation as Critical Encounter: The Space Between Words. The event will take place on Friday, 21 November, from 10-6, in the CCA seminar room on the 6th floor of the Academic Building-West Wing. It will feature a morning faculty roundtable on Global Translation: Publishing Across Borders and the Space in Between; a fantastic afternoon line up of graduate student panels and formal feedback on their work; and an afternoon presentation on AI and creativity by Prof. Miguel Jiménez-Crespo. It promises to be a full and fabulous day of conversation, exciting new graduate student scholarship, and a happy reunion for all at Rutgers dedicated to translation. Please join Prof. Badji and his students, and so many of our fantastic colleagues from literatures and languages here at Rutgers!

Rutgers University, New Brunswick | 9.6.25 | 8-5.30

"Stealth Translation, or, How to Cross the Policed Border" with Adhira Mangalagiri on April 23rd, 5-7pm, Academic Building West 4052

Followed by discussion lead by Prof. Anjali Nerkelar

 

This talk explores translation conducted in gestures of guise and guile. I theorize such gestures as “stealth translation,” a translational practice concerned with slipping through the policed border. Much of translation theory has tended to champion visibility – of both the translator and the foreign – as an ethical stance against ethnonationalism. Our times, however, seem to call for a more tactical, covert inhabitance of the threshold between visibility and invisibility, so that difference may better evade forces of surveillance and expulsion. Focusing on the heavily regulated and prohibitive China-India border, this talk plots an eclectic lineage of interlingual tricks, hidden identities, and secret codes captured in Chinese and Hindi texts as offering translational strategies for eluding mechanisms of border control. 

 

Adhira Mangalagiri is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at New York University. Her book States of Disconnect: The China-India Literary Relation in the Twentieth Century (Columbia UP, 2023) explores possibilities for transnational literary relation beyond the hyper-connective paradigms of globalization and against the insularity of exclusionary nationalisms. Her next book project studies the politics of visibility in translation theory sited at the policed China-India border. Her research has appeared in Comparative Literature Studies, the Journal of World Literature, the International Journal of Asian Studies, Economic & Political Weekly, among others, and she is a General Editor of Comparative Critical Studies. 

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a hybrid Korean Translation Workshop

Please join the Department of Italian for a presentation of the English translation of Porpora Marcasciano's Book AntoloGaia. With Professor Ben Sifuentes-Jaureguí and the book's two translators, Dr. Francesco Pascuzzi and Dr. Sandra Waters. Wednesday, 27 March 2024, 4 p.m., AB-4052.

“Abysmally ignorant” was how the United States Army Military Government in Korea (USAMGIK) was described by its own men. Occupying the southern half of the Korean peninsula from 1945 to 1948 without much knowledge of the country’s language, culture, or history, USAMGIK quickly devolved into “a government of, for, and by interpreters.” This talk examines the figure of the translator/interpreter in the literature produced during the occluded years of the US occupation, both by major Korean writers and by American servicemen in Korea. Analyzed together, these works reveal the emergence of English in US-occupied Korea as the way and the power, and translation as a process of establishing a monopoly over meaning. In that sense, translation functioned less as a means of moving between two languages than as a procedure of publicly legitimating an internal authority hyper-recognizable to members of the Korean community and largely invisible to American forces. Tracing the continuity of this figure of the translator, who is at once heteronomous and introverted, the talk will address the significance of the US Occupation for the formation not only of the South Korean state but of its enduring power elite.

Zoom registration

https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMsduqhrTkpHd1Ag-j7X6vt8EaW1BOGooKM

   

Machine Translation: Post-Editing and Creativity | April 5th, 5:30-6.45 p.m. | Professor Ana Guerberof Arenas, University of Groningen, The Netherlands   

Zoom link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEqceuuqjIpHtf71PfF3zSTV5FYb7zVdqkA  

 

We are excited to invite you to our upcoming event titled “Translation and Interpreting in Indigenous Languages: Career Opportunities for the Community”, which will take place on April 21 afternoon and 22 morning at The Language Center in downtown New Brunswick. The event is an initiative of The Language Bank and is possible thanks to an IDEA Innovation Grant and aims to raise awareness about the importance of providing access to careers in translation and interpreting and creating appropriate resources for indigenous, endangered, and minority languages, with a particular emphasis on calling for the participation of the community. 

We are honored to have an impressive line-up of speakers who are experts in the field, and they will share their experiences and knowledge with the attendees. The speakers include: 

Daniel Kaufman, Endangered Language Alliance  Eleanor Castillo Bullock, GAMAE International Inc.  Karola Ranger, Interpreter, NJ Courts  Charles Häberl, Professor, AMESALL, Rutgers  Laura Ramírez Polo, Assistant Teaching Professor, Spanish and Portuguese, The Language Bank, Rutgers  Shaheen Parveen, Assistant Teaching Professor, AMESALL, Rutgers 

The event will provide plenty of opportunity for open discussions and brainstorming, allowing us to gather opinions and feedback from the community. We believe that your participation will add value to the event and contribute to its success. 

Please RSVP by April 15 to confirm your attendance: https://forms.gle/rfHGKgZcgWyMA6rp9 

 If you have any questions or require further information, please do not hesitate to contact us at ramirez.laura@rutgers.eduor haberl@amesall.rutgers.edu and visit our website: https://sites.rutgers.edu/indigenous-translation  

We look forward to seeing you at the event.  

Please spread the word as much as possible, especially among members of the community and speakers of indigenous, endangered, and minority languages!

To celebrate the United Nations' International Translation Day, we have organized a series of activities on translation and interpreting that will take place on Friday, 30 September 2022. We are grateful for the generous support of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, their Translation and Interpreting Program, the new Rutgers Translation Studies Initiative, the Department of English, The Language Center, and the Program in Comparative Literature. Please click on the image to get detailed information on the events and a link to registration. 

There will be translation/interpretation projects, workshops, and showcases in English, Chinese, French, Spanish, Korean, Russian, and more. Refreshments provided throughout the day; all participants will be entered in a raffle for translationrelated prizes!

This year’s event includes both in-person and online projects.

Find further details on our website.

http://sites.rutgers.edu/translate-a-thon

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