Call for Participants

[Russell Valentino]

We are seeking applicants for the first University of Iowa Graduate Student 
Translation Colloquium. Join us March 30-April 2, 2006, in lovely Iowa City, 
Iowa (home of the International Writing Program, the Writers Workshop, the 
Translation Workshop, and the Playwrights’ Lab) for a thrilling weekend of 
roundtables, workshops, talks by translation luminaries, and more.

If you are a graduate student who translates and would like the opportunity to 
share your work and your ideas about translation with your peers, please send 
a CV, a sample of your work (up to 5 poems or 5-10 pages of prose) the 
original text, and a brief (1-page) statement indicating which workshop(s) you 
are interested in participating in and how your work fits into the workshop’s 
topics. We offer a small stipend to those chosen to participate.

Workshops will include the following (for complete workshop descriptions, send 
email to rebecca-mckay at uiowa.edu):

Translating the Americas
Drama and Translation
Inside Out: Translating Out of Your Native Language
Paraphrase/Imitation/You Call that Translation?
Translating Sub-, Counter-, & Microcultures
Words and Art: Translating mixed media
Translating Ancient Languages Living and Dead
India When Will You Send Your Eggs to America?: Translating South Asian 
Languages

Application materials must be received by January 15th, 2006. Send to:

Rebecca McKay
Dept. of Cinema and Comparative Literature
E210 AJB
Iowa City, IA  52242

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