| Description | When students encounter differences in their everyday lives (in the form of experiences, ideas, narratives, religious traditions, texts, languages, etc.), they make creative interpretive decisions as they restate, rephrase, and recast what they don’t know in terms of what they do know. In other words, they come to understand difference through everyday acts of translation. In this syllabus workshop, we will think collectively about how to teach translation through a range of approaches, where translation can be a specialized skill, an object of theoretical reflection, and even an everyday practice of making sense of difference.
This is a UW Translation Studies Hub event.
Jane Mikkelson (Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, and Comparative Literature, Yale University) researches and teaches premodern literary cultures of Islamicate South Asia and the Near East. Her essays and translations (from Persian and Russian) have appeared in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East; Journal of South Asian Intellectual History; Asymptote; and Exchanges.
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