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Thursday, October 29 • 2:00pm - 3:15pm
Trafficking in Smoke Signals? Attempts at Conveying Ethnicity in Translation

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How do we as English-speaking translators do justice to texts from sources that are Native American, Middle Eastern, Caribbean, European, Asian or African in origin? What pitfalls, what , what strategies can we determine that will allow us to offer a nuanced and thus viable translation for an audience unfamiliar with the source culture?
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Marilya Reese

Professor of German, Northern Arizona University
I was born in Oklahoma but educated in NJ, Germany, & Sweden in three languages until my Ph.D. from UT Austin in 1990 . Since then, I've been in Flagstaff at NAU. I was trained in literary translation by my dissertation director, ALTA co-founder A. Leslie Willson. If I had to name... Read More →

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Michael Rulon

Lecturer of French, Northern Arizona Univeristy
Michael Rulon earned his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is now Lecturer of French at Northern Arizona University, specializing in French for the science professions, 19th-century French literature, and Francophone literature... Read More →

Thursday October 29, 2015 2:00pm - 3:15pm MST
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