INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL STUDIES GRADUATE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM

Fall 2006 Speaker Series: Cultural Translation

Cultural translation involves not only the art and craft of the 'literary' or 'technical' translation, but also the many cultural formations that emerge through the global flow of capital, ideas, technologies, exiles, emigrants and refugees. Multiple types of translational identities are produced as global subjectivities become increasingly defined by communication across languages and cultures. Presentations in this series will engage the subject of cultural translation in as broad a way as possible addressing cultural translation across issues of diasporic displacement, nation, gender formation, political practice, hybridity, migration, indigeneity, looking at cultural institutions and practices, communities, the reading of “foreign” films, and translation from one medium to another.

All presentations are free and open to the public.

Time: 12:00pm – 1:20pm Place: East-West Center, Burns Hall 2118

Wed. Sept. 13^th – Vicente Rafael, Department of History, University of Washington
"Translating 'Freedom' on the Eve of the Filipino Revolution"

Wed. Sept. 20^th – Kyle Ikeda, Department of East Asian Languages and Literature, University of Hawaii at Manoa

“Challenges of Representing the Polylinguality of Okinawan Literature in Translation”

Wed. Oct. 4^th – Cristina Bacchilega, Department of English, University of Hawaii at Manoa

"_Legendary Hawai'i_as Cultural Translation"

Wed. Oct. 11^th – Subramanian Shankar, Department of English, University of Hawaii at Manoa

"Postcolonialism and the Problem of Translation"

Wed. Nov. 1^st – Leilani Basham, Department of Hawaiian Language, University of Hawaii at Manoa

“Mele Lähui: Poetic Expressions of the Hawaiian People and Nation”

Wed. Nov. 8^th – David Mozina, Department of Religion, Harvard University

TBA

Wed. Nov. 15^th – Kathy Ferguson, Women’s Studies and Political Science, UH Manoa

"Race, Class and Jewishness in Early 20th Century Radical Immigrant Politics."

Wed. Nov. 29^th – Linda Lierheimer, Department of History, Hawaii Pacific University

“Miraculous Translation in Early Modern France”

Wed. Dec. 6^th – Fred Lau, Department of Music, UH Manoa

“TBA”