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May 2019
Resonances: Writers on the Classics (PEN World Voices Festival)
Many authors draw on stories from the past in order to write about the present. Join acclaimed writers Niviaq Korneliussen, Bridgett M. Davis, Gabrielle Bell, and Willivaldo Delgadillo as they read their own words and share the works of the literary giants on whose shoulders they stand. This evening will be moderated by writer and translator Esther Allen. Presented in partnership with Baruch College’s Great Works of Literature and Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Programs
Find out more »New Approaches to José Martí
With Alejandro de la Fuente, Silvio A. Torres-Saillant, Juliet Hooker and Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof. Latin American Studies Association Conference, Boston, Massachusetts.
Find out more »Translation and Justice in the Americas
With Esther K. Whitfield, Jacqueline Loss, and Radamés Molina. Latin American Studies Association Conference, Boston, Massachusetts.
Find out more »June 2019
José Martí as a U.S. Writer
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute: José Martí and the Immigrant Communities of Florida in Cuban Independence and the Dawn of the American Century Center for José Martí Studies, University of Tampa
Find out more »March 2020
Territory and Translation: On the antecedents of a poem by César Vallejo
Princeton Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication Monday Lunch Series
Find out more »April 2020
The Translation Symposium at Bard College
Panel: Interpreting on the Page Marguerite Feitlowitz (Bennington College) Esther Allen (Baruch College) Barbara Epler (Publisher / Editor-in-Chief, New Directions) Wyatt Mason (Bard College / Hannah Arendt Center) Peter Filkins (Bard College / Simon’s Rock)
Find out more »May 2020
Translating the Future
Amid the turmoil of 1970, the PEN “World of Translation” conference—billed as the first international translation conference in the United States— altered perspectives and created new realms of literary possibility for the English-speaking world. In the turmoil of the present day, “Translating the Future” (launched May 12, 2020) will reflect on how literary translation—the “language of languages” as Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o calls it—has changed since 1970, and invite a collective, international envisioning of what it might become over the next…
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