Translation Studies Symposium

12:00-12:30: Welcome (lunch available)

12:30 pm-1:30 pm: Thinking Translation in a German Key: Herder, Schleiermacher, Heidegger, Benjamin, and Kafka

Moderator: Hans Shen

• Aaron Saint John (doctoral candidate, German Studies),
  • “Translation and the Philosophy of Language in Friedrich Schleiermacher, Walter Benjamin, and Martin Heidegger”
• Jessica Bond (PhD student, Comparative Literature),
  • "Beautiful Failures: The Sublimity of Odradek and the Music of Translation"

1:30-1:45: break

1:45-2:45: A Conversation with Scholar Translators: Professors Michael Lazzara and Archana Venkatesan, interviewed by Anna Li and Linfeng Yang

2:45-3:00: break

3:00-4:30: East and West, High and Low

Moderator: Borui Liu

• Yingwei Mu (doctoral candidate, German Studies),
  • “The Yijing Between China and the West”
• Harvey Loh (doctoral candidate, German Studies),
  • “Cosmopolitan Translation Techniques: A Linguaphilic Tradition of Translational Transnationalism from the Classics to Video Games”
• Wendy Feng (PhD Student, Comparative Literature),
  • “Gendered in Translation: The Curious Case of Jiāorén”

4:30-4:45: break

4:45-5:45: War, Violence, and Translation

Moderator: Jo Kan Jacqueline Ho

• Megan David, (MA student, Comparative Literature),
  • “Translation in Crisis”
• AJ Mata (MA Student, Comparative Literature),
  • “The Interpreter’s Ambivalent Position: Mediating the Commander’s Speech in David Diop’s Frère d’âme