The second Humanities in Cultural Affairs workshop, "Cultural Affairs in Translation," will be co-chaired by Russell Valentino, Indiana University (IU) Professor in Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures. The workshop will bring together three professors outside of Indiana University: Esther Allen Professor of Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures at Baruch College, Christopher Merrill…

Translation, scholarship, and original writing can function as reciprocal props, platforms, and opportunities for performance. Panelists will talk about the myriad paths they’ve traveled, as their translation work has led them to write biographies, literary and cultural studies, memoirs, poems, and fictions (in which translators may be starring characters!). This will be a discussion about…