University of Iowa Graduate Student Colloquium and Carnival

Scheduled Events, free and open to all

Friday, March 31

4:00 p.m. Bilingual poetry reading featuring Cole Swensen (Iowa Writers' Workshop) and Nathalie Stephens (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), Shambaugh House, 430 N. Clinton St.

7:00 p.m. Bilingual reading with Vassilis Alexakis and Alyson Waters (Foreign Words)

at Prairie Lights Bookstore, 15 S. Dubuque St.

Saturday, April 1

1:00 p.m., Lucas Dodge Room, IMU
Roundtable discussion: Translation: Process vs. Product
featuring: Russell Valentino (Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, University of Iowa), Alyson Waters (managing editor of Yale French Studies, lecturer in the French department, Yale University), and Daniel Balderston, (Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Iowa)

5:00 p.m., Lucas Doge Room, IMU
Keynote address,  Michael Henry Heim (Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UCLA; translator of Chekhov, Mann, Kundera, Kis, and many others) "How to Tell if You Are Ready to Translate from a Language"

Sunday, April 2

1:00 p.m., Lucas Dodge Room, IMU
Roundtable discussion: The Ethics of Translation
featuring Michael Henry Heim and Nathalie Stephens

6:00 p.m. 101 Becker Communication Studies Building
Poet and translator Niloufar Talebi (http://www.thetranslationproject.com/) will be showing films she has made based on her translations of Iranian poets

For more information, go to http://intl-programs.uiowa.edu/projects/colloqium/

or contact Rebecca McKay at rebecca-mckay@uiowa.edu