"Translation and the Global Communities of Scholars" 2010 seminar series is sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature and the programs of Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture (PIC) and the Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP). Seminal figures are being invited. Joshua Price describes the issues thus: "The past few decades have witnessed an accelerated formation of scholars in each of these interdisciplines. One of the consequences in the sciences and humanities is the enhanced possibility for communication among practitioners, researchers, and readers. The formation of new global communities of scholars implies a host of challenges including the prominence and even hegemony of certain linguistic traditions, the development of an academic lingua franca, the use of scholarly journals as watch dogs and gate-keepers for the disciplines, and the increasing contestation of disciplinary boundaries."
The Department of Comparative Literature presents a conference on "Inhabiting the Transnational," Friday, February 20, in LT 1506 (9:00-12:30 p.m.) and in LT 1406A (1:30-4:30 p.m.). For questions and program information please contact Gisela Brinker-Gabler (gbrinker@binghamton.edu) or Annemarie Fischer (afische3@binghamton.edu). Free and open to the public.
Sandra Bermann
Workshop sponsored by the Dean of Harpur College, Comparative Literature, and the Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP). Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 4:30-6:30 pm, LN 1106 (Faculty Lounge). "Re-vision and/as Translation: The Poetry of Andrienne Rich" by Sandra Bermann (Comparative Literature, Princeton)
Workshop sponsored by the Dean of Harpur College, Comparative Literature, and the Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP). Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 4:25 p.m., LN 1106 (Faculty Lounge). "What is 'translating' anyway? (and how it is similar to and different for other things language users do?)" by H. Stephen Straight (Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics)
Workshop sponsored by the Dean of Harpur College, Comparative Literature, and the Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP). Wednesday March 18, 2009, 4:25 p.m., LN 1106 (Faculty Lounge). "Linguistic Migrations/Transmogrifications: The Meandering of Cultures" by Carrol F. Coates (Romance Languages & Literatures, Binghamton)
Workshop sponsored by the Dean of Harpur College, Comparative Literature, and the Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP). Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 4 – 6 PM, LN 1106 (Faculty Lounge). “Translating the Orient from 'The Thousand and One Nights' to Le Hip-hop” by David Damrosch (c. Comparative Literature, Harvard)
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Debates on globalization as a key concept imagining the world in the 21th century are running deep in all social sciences and cultural studies today. In this context translation has emerged as the new transdisciplinary discipline that shapes current debates on cultural globalization. The workshop, jointly organized by Comparative Literature and the Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP), will explore the literary, philosophical, cultural and anthropological dimensions of translation. It will reflect on how translation reshapes our thoughts on both national and international identities. Invited speakers are: Monika Mehta (“Remaking Race and the Nation State In Kaante”), David Damrosch (“Translating the Orient from ‘The Thousand and One Nights’ to Le Hip-hop”) , Carrol Coates (“Linguistic Migrations/Transmogrifications: The Meandering of Cultures”) and Sandra Berman.
In spring 2009 19 students graduated with a major in Comparative Literature and 3 students graduated with a minor in Comparative Literature.
Katie Radzik (double major English/Comp Lit) will be starting an M.A. in Comp Lit at the University College in London, UK, in fall 2009.
Jennifer Mora (double major Comp Lit/Art History) will be starting an M.A. in Arts Administration at NYU, NYC, in fall 2009.
Matthew Unhjem (double major Comp Lit/Spanish) has gotten a Fulbright to teach English in Santander, Spain, in 2009/2010.
The Comparative Literature Graduate Research Awards 2008-2009 went to Julia Friday, Gulru Gozacan, Ana Haber, Jessie Kabwila Kapasula and Nilima Rabl.
Jessie Kabwila Kapasula has been invited to be the "African Visiting Scholar of the Month" in the College of Human Sciences at UNISA, University of South Africa. She will stay at UNISA from July 16 to August 16, 2009 and deliver a lecture on "The Colour of Liberatory Feminist Agency in Contemporary Africa. The Transnational Perspective of Dangarembga and Adichie." Also she will present a feminist theory training workshop on "Violence, Women and African Cinema." UNISA is a distance education university, with headquarters in Pretoria/Tshwane, South Africa. With approximately 200,000 enrolled students, it is one of the world's mega universities.
Markus Zisselsberger received the University award for Distinguished Dissertation in the Humanities for his dissertation "Fragments of One's Own Existence: The Reader W. G. Sebald." Only one award is given every year in the Humanities (2008/09).
Gregory Sevik received the University award for Excellence in Teaching for 2008/2009.
Irmak Ertuna received the University award for Excellence in Teaching for 2008/2009.
Ayse Temiz received the University award for Research in 2007/2008.
Kenneth Roon received the University award for Service in 2007/2008.
Vern Walker received the University award for Distinguished Dissertation in the Humanities for his dissertation "Pacificism's Precarity." Only one award is given every year in the Humanities (2007/08).
Ken Roon's essay "John Rechy's Borderless City of Night" was published in The Idea of the City: Early Modern and Post-Modern Locations and Communities, edited by John Fitzpatrick, Cambridge Scholars Press, Newcastle upon Tyne (UK), 2009.
Alison Heney's article "Seeking the Ancient Spirit in Modern Art: A Comparative Consideration of Wassily Kandinsky, Jane Harrison and Virginia Woolf" was published in Issue 27 of the peer-reviewed journal genre: "Ancient and Modern Narrative" issued by the Department of Comparative World Literature and Classics at CSULB.
Alison Heney's paper, "Because the last room is his room': 'Bluebeard' and Ingeborg Bachmann's Malina," was nominated to be considered for the 2008 Horst Frenz prize of the ACLA. She gave this paper at the 2008 ACLA meeting. The prize includes a $250.00 gift certificate for books and a $250.00 travel grant to attend the following year's ACLA conference, as well as publication of the paper in the Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature.
Kim Allen Gleed was appointed Associate Professor of English at Harrisburg Area Community College (Harrisburg Campus).
Amy Smith was appointed tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas.
Jeongyun Ko was appointed Visiting Professor at the Department of English of Kutztown University, Kutztown, Pennsylvania.
Markus Zisselsberger was appointed tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida.
Ben Van Wyke, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Translation Studies at University of Purdue and Indiana, Indianapolis.
| 2009 | Mark Harris | The Continuity of Readings: Thematic Approaches to the Short Fiction of Julio Cortazar |
| 2009 |
Carolyn Timmsen Amory |
Human Vocality: Monody, Magic, and Mind |
| 2008 | Heikki Kujansivu | Returning Thirds: On Reading Literature (Committee: Brett Levinson, Neil Christian Pages, Rosemarie LaValva) |
| 2008 | Schnabl, Ruth | Gravity-Bound: The Articulation of the Body in Art and the Possibility of Community (Committee: William Haver, Brett Levinson, William Spanos |
| 2008 | Walker, Vern | Pacifism’s Precarity (Committee: Gisela Brinker-Gabler, William Haver, Neil Christian Pages) |
| 2008 | Temiz, Ayse Deniz | Gens Inconnus: Political and Literary Habitations of Postcolonial Border Spaces (Committee: William Haver, Brett Levinson, William Spanos) |
| 2008 | Zisselsberger, Markus | Fragments of One’s Own Existence: The Reader W.G. Sebald (Committee: Neal Christian Pages, Gisela Brinker-Gabler, Ingeborg Majer-O’Sickey) |
