Sawad Hussain: Selling literature: What鈥檚 a translator got to do with it?
11:30 a.m.
This seminar will examine the marketing tools that today鈥檚 translators are expected to master and whether these expectations are fair to begin with.
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11:30 a.m.
This seminar will examine the marketing tools that today鈥檚 translators are expected to master and whether these expectations are fair to begin with.
4 p.m.
Ryan Cordell – Bibliography & the Sociology of Large Language Models. Drawing on experiments from the Viral Texts project, study the relationship between bibliography and AI.
5 p.m.
Join a panel of three distinguished translators -Sawad Hussain, Shelley Fairweather-Vega, and Takami Nieda – for an engaging discussion on translating literature for young people.
3:30 p.m.
This talk discusses Finland’s unique cultural heritage and its contemporary expression as a new NATO member and an important collaborator with the Nordic Defense Cooperation.
4 p.m.
Explore the origins, adaptations, and history of Hans Christian Andersen鈥檚 tale 鈥淭he Emperor鈥檚 New Clothes,鈥 framing it as a clever parable that questions political authority.
4 p.m.
“Mosquitoes, earwax, and bird baths”
Professor David Hu – School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Tech
Host: Sarah Keller
4:30 p.m.
Sawad Hussain will highlight how she has courted authors and editors, and then played guardian and censor to bring literary works from Arabic into English.
5 p.m.
A series of online talks and discussions on the international impact of the second Trump presidency featuring Jackson School and other UW faculty and guest speakers. Topic: Migration, featuring Mark Ward, U.S. Foreign Service (ret.); Instructor Oregon State University.
6:30 p.m.
Join award-winning graphic novelist and all-around champion of Black culture, John Jennings for a conversation about the current history of Black speculation.
3:30 p.m.
This talk will draw on ethnographic fieldwork to explore the social lives of low-wage women workers in Karachi, Pakistan.