Welcome and Introductions
Mellon Research Seminar
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September 6, 2016
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September 13, 2016
Bethany Wiggin presenting "Mixing Water and Oil: Environmental Humanities on the Lower Schuylkill River", Kimberley Thomas responding
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September 20, 2016
Candace Barrington presenting "Translation Trouble: Chaucer and the Subaltern", Jacqueline Burek responding
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September 27, 2016
Christine Poggi presenting "Projections: Mona Hatoum’s Cartographic Practice", André Carrington responding
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October 4, 2016
Susie Hatmaker "The Radical Abundance of Silica: Potential for a Digital Ethics", Rahul Mukherjee responding
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October 11, 2016
Brian Long presenting "Symeon Seth between Islamicate Culture and Eleventh-Century Byzantium", Heather Sharkey responding
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October 18, 2016
Judith Kaplan presenting "From Lexicostatistics to Lexomics: Basic Vocabulary and the Study of Language Prehistory"; Beth Linker responding
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October 25, 2016
Damien Stankiewicz presenting "Is Europe Lost in Translation?: Lessons from the Micro-Politics of Meaning at the French-German Television Channel ARTE"; Laura Kunruther responding
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November 1, 2016
Roundtable discussion of Walter Benjamin’s “The Task of the Translator” (1921; translated by Harry Zohn, 1968), and Bruno Latour, “Introduction” to Reassembling the Social (2005).
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November 8, 2016
Avery Slater presenting "Crypto-Monolingualism: Machine Translation and the Poetics of Automation"; Judy Kaplan responding.
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November 15, 2016
Sheila (Bridget) Murnaghan presenting "Wonders Never Cease: Translating Greek Tragedy in the 21st Century", Lily Kass responding
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November 29, 2016
André Carrington presenting "ALIEN SOUNDS | THE WAR OF THE WORLDS AS AUDIOFUTURISM"; Jim English respondiné
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January 17, 2017
Beth Linker presenting "The American Slouch: Human Posture, Visual Translation, and the Making of an Epidemic"; Leon Hilton responding
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January 24, 2017
Rahul Mukherjee presenting "Translating Radiations: Popular Detectives across the World", Susie Hatmaker responding.
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January 31, 2017
Heather J. Sharkey presenting "The British and Foreign Bible Society’s Arabic Bible Translations: A Study in Anglo-American Rivalry and Language Politics"; Ali Karjoo-Ravary responding
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February 7, 2017
Tour of Translated Objects in the Penn Museum collections, curated by Steve Tinney
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February 14, 2017
Kimberly Thomas presenting "The invisibility of non-riparian actors in a transboundary river system"; Jim English responding
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February 21, 2017
Leon Hilton presenting "Fernand Deligny’s Traces"; Brian Long responding
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February 28, 2017
Lily Kass presenting "Between Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Caractacus on a Circular Route (1759-1797)"; Filippo Trentin responding
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March 14, 2017
Filippo Trentin presenting "Aesthetics of Contingency: Clark, Deleuze and Postwar Modernism"; Chris Poggi responding
DATE CHANGE: April 11, 2017
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March 21, 2017
Laura Kunreuther presenting "Conduits, Ear-witnesses, and Transparent Voices: On the Labor of UN Field Interpreters"; Candace Barrington responding
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March 28, 2017
Ali Karjoo-Ravary presenting "The King’s Alchemy: The Aesthetics and Language of Rule"; Sheila (Bridget) Murnaghan responding
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April 4, 2017
Jacqueline Burek presenting "English Universal History: Ranulph Higden, John Trevisa, and the Forms of the Polychronicon"; Avery Slater responding
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April 11, 2017
Filippo Trentin presenting "Aesthetics of Contingency: Clark, Deleuze and Postwar Modernism"; Chris Poggi responding
Previously scheduled for March 14, 2017
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April 18, 2017
Ann Farnsworth-Alvear presenting "Translating Ethical Practices to Unethical Contexts: Intractable Conflicts among IRB Guidelines, Intellectual Property Law, Translation Rights, and Class Inequalities"; Damien Stankiewicz responding
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April 25, 2017
Last meeting- open discussion and wrap up.