BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:BU: Translating J.V. Foix’s Daybook 1918: The Strangeness of Minority PRODID:-//Harvard events data//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_648731_0 SUMMARY:BU: Translating J.V. Foix’s Daybook 1918: The Strangeness of Minority DESCRIPTION:
Translation Seminar
Lawrence Venuti, Professor of English at Temple University, is a translation theorist and historian as well as a translator from Italian, French, and Catalan. He is the author of The Translator’s Invisibility: A History of Translation (2nd ed., 2008), The Scandals of Translation: Towards an Ethics of Difference (1998), and Translation Changes Everything: Theory and Practice (2013), as well as the editor of The Translation Studies Reader (3rd ed., 2012), an anthology of theory and commentary from antiquity to the present. His translations include Antonia Pozzi’s Breath: Poems and Letters (2002), Massimo Carlotto’s crime novel The Goodbye Kiss (2006), and J. Rodolfo Wilcock’s collection of real and imaginary biographies, The Temple of Iconoclasts (2014). In 2008 he won the Robert Fagles Translation Prize for his version of Ernest Farrés’s Edward Hopper: Poems.
Sponsors: Boston University Modern Languages and Comparative Literature
Website: http://www.bu.edu/translation/guest-lecturers/
LOCATION:Boston University School of Theology, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 625 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20160219T180000Z DTEND:20160219T200000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR