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”...
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Not So Simple! Translating Young Adult Literature as Resistance and Entertainment with Sawad Hussain
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...
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...
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...
What lessons can be learned from the past, when movie theaters were filled with cinephiles and VHS technology created an alternative cultural space? Underscoring the margins of cinema and media studies, three scholars discuss the long-lasting legacies of the film...
Global Asias at the University of Washington is a dynamic interdisciplinary initiative that explores the transnational and transcultural connections shaping Asian and Asian American experiences across the world. Bringing together scholars, artists, and communities, Global Asias fosters critical conversations on...
Grief over the loss of a child is well known to be especially difficult and intractable. Across cultures, people have long turned to poetry in times of mourning. Years after the loss of his five-year old son, Ralph Waldo Emerson...
Join us for a retrospective reflection on the future of African women and football followed by a Q&A featuring guest speaker Martha Saavedra, faculty and associate director of the Center for African Studies at the University of California in Berkeley. This...