In The Politics of Collecting, Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise of US museum collections and conceptual art forms. Investigating historical legal and property claims, she argues that regimes of expropriation—rather than merit or good...
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A conversation with Hang Tu, Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies, National University of SingaporeHow does emotion shape the landscape of public intellectual debate? In Sentimental Republic, Hang Tu proposes emotion as a new critical framework to approach a post-Mao cultural...
Data visualization best practices and tools do not always discuss accessibility, which can exclude many groups of people. This workshop will review ways to make your visualizations more accessible. We will work through a visualization together and add features to...
Sawad Hussain will highlight how she has courted authors and editors, and then played guardian and censor – sometimes against her better judgments – in order to bring literary works from Arabic into English. She will discuss the roles and...
Not So Simple! Translating Young Adult Literature as Resistance and Entertainment with Sawad Hussain
There is a common misconception in literary publishing that books for children and young adults are “simple” and are, therefore, easy to translate. But translating literature for younger people is not simple at all. How does the process of “curating”...
Drawing on experiments from the Viral Texts project ( https://viraltexts.org), this talk will reflect on the relationship between bibliography & AI in two directions. First, the talk will consider how bibliographic methods can help scholars, as D.F. McKenzie wrote of...
What exactly sells in translation and what role does a translator play in the selling of their translation? With the public profile of the translator becoming more visible, this seminar will pick apart the marketing tools that today’s translators are...
Please join us as this year’s Undergraduate Research Grant awardees share their research with the GWSS community. This event is an opportunity to engage with emerging scholarship in gender, women, and sexuality studies and to celebrate the work of our...
Representation is not a passive act of recording; it is an active, constructed practice. In Science, Technology, and Society Studies (STS), this refers to the visuality participate in the construction of techno reality; in humanities, it involves examining how different...