Updated at 7:33 p.m., Friday, January 19, 2007
Star scholars in UH symposiums on translation next week
Advertiser Staff
The University of Hawai'i-Manoa is hosting an International Symposium on Translation Reading on Monday and Tuesday.From 7:30 to 9 p.m. Monday is "Reading in Other Words: A Literary Event" at the Center for Korean Studies Auditorium. Academic stars who are also translators — Hosam Aboul-Ela, Yunte Huang (he translated Ezra Pound's "The Pisan Cantos" into Mandarin), and UH's own Puakea Nogelmeier, Susan Schultz, S. Shankar and Reina Whaitiri — will read literature in translation.
On Tuesday, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the Art Auditorium, will be a roundtable discussion on "Translation: Theory, Practice, Trope" with celebrated literary theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Aboul-Ela, Huang and Hawaiian translator Noelani Arista. More information: S. Shankar, 956 3077, subraman@hawaii.edu.
