Un/Translatables - Speakers

We are pleased to announce the following speakers:

• Authors: Susan Bernofsky; Charles Bernstein will read from Showtime; Bettina Brandt, Mark Harman: "Polar Opposites from Prague? Retranslating Kafka and & some Rilke", and Yoko Tawada.

• Leslie A. Adelson: "Rusty Rails and Parallel Worlds: Trans-Latio in Yoko Tawada's Das nackte Auge (2004)"

• Andrea Bachner: "Between the Visual and the Sonic: Rewriting Rilke's 'Ur-Geräusch'"

• Heike Bauer: "A Strategy of Un/Translatability: Method and Politics in Magnus Hirschfeld’s 'German' Sexology"

• Nina Berman: "Evaluating the Semiotics of Cross-Cultural Representation: Cultural Translation in German-Language Writings"

• Tom Cheesman: "'… nicht dunkel, sondern Gold!' (Erich Fried): on un-re-translatability"

• Ken Frieden: “Translations at the Origins of Modern Yiddish Literature”

• Willi Goetschel: "Translation and the Text’s Alterity"

• Kathryn Hellerstein: "China in New York’s Yiddish Translations: Modernist Adaptation and Appropriation

• Barbara Kosta: "The Translatability of Images and Cultural Competency: Fatik Akin's 'On the Edge of Heaven' and Ulrike Ottinger's 'The Korean Wedding Chest'"

• Anita Norich: "Yiddish Translation Matters" 

• Ann Marie Rasmussen: "'Stelzen, Stolzen': Linguistic Metaphors and Puns in the Medieval Sex Badges"  

• Simon Richter: "Trans(fel)lating the Body of Christ: Gerard Reve, Jürgen Hillner, Paul Verhoeven, and The Fourth Man"

• Gerhild Scholz Williams: "Between News and Novel: Culture as Process of Translation"

• Azade Seyhan: "Mapping Geographies of Translation: The Multilingual Imagination in German/European Culture(s)"

• Larry Silver: "Hendrik Goltzius Translates the Renaissance"

• Lawrence Venuti: "Genealogies of Translation Theory: Locke and Schleiermacher"

• Xiaojue Wang: “Feng Zhi’s 1949 Entsagung: Translating Rilke and Goethe Across the Cold War Divide in China”

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