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June 7, 2008
"Literary Translation - A Seminar on the Art, Craft
and Business"
Facilitated by Alison Dundy, New York University
A panel of experts involved in different aspects of
literary translation - translators, teachers and
publishers - discuss their interconnected work of
brining literature in translation to an English-reading
audience.
Panelist: Marjoljn de Jager, award-winning translator;
Emmanuelle Ertel, French Department, New York
University; Dedi Felman, Ediotr, Words without Borders;
Jill Schoolman, Publisher, Archipelago Books.
April 22 - 27, 2008
"Gender and Translation" TRACALA Roundtable
Facilitated by Wangui wa Goro
34th Annual Conference oft h ALA (African Literature
Association)
at Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL
March 19 - 21, 2008
"Translation as Revelation"
Invited Speaker at the 37th Annual French Literature
Conference
"Stealing the Fire in French and Fracophone Literature
and Film:
Adaptation, Appropriation, Plagiarism, Hoax"
Facilitated by Prof. Jeanne Garane of the Dept. of
Languages,
Literatures and Cultures, University of South Carolina,
Columbia SC
March 6, 2008
"A Child Rembers World War II",
a personal recollection of Learning in Retirement,
an ongoing program at Sacred Heart University, Stamford, CT
February 1, 2008
AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs)
Annual Conference,
New York City, NY
Member of "Translation in MFA Programs" panel, chaired by B.J.
Epstein
May, 2006
"Festival of Words," Norwalk Community College,
Norwalk, CT
Reading of Assia Djebar's "RAIS, BENTALHA...A year
later"
December 2, 2005 and February 23, 2006
City University of New York, New York, NY
Presentation and Q&A session on
CHILDREN
OF THE NEW WORLD
with Assia Djebar and introduced by Prof. Judith Miller
(NYU).
October 19, 2002
ALTA Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois
Bilingual Poetry Reading by Translators Series; a reading of five poems by the Dutch poet, Huub Beurskens.
May 29, 2002
Radio Interview with Djamila Addar (Montreal, Canada)
“Le Printemps de Tahar Djaout”; see http://www.kabyle.com/
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May 27, 2002
LIBERTÉ-Algérie: newspaper
interview by Belloula Nassira,
"Tahar Djaout a séduit l'élite et les universités
américanes"
May 2001
Voice-over (Dutch) for Cibic Plus
, a video commercial: Lexicomm International, Ltd.
April 4-8, 2001
ALA (African Literature Association), Annual Conference,
Richmond, Virginia. Roundtable The Creative Circle: Writer, Critic,
Translator . Presenter: “Cultural Sensitivity in Translating
African Literature”.
April 13-16, 2000
ALA (African Literature Association), Annual
Conference, Lawrence, Kansas. Roundtable En/Gendering
Translations:
Translating and Publishing African Women’s Texts.
October 21-24, 1999
ALTA, Annual Conference, New York City.
Panel Facilitator: The State of Publishing Translations of
Francophone
Literature in the USA.
June 25, 1999
The Beacon School
Commencement Speaker for the Graduating
of the Class of 1999.
May 25, 1999
New York Circle of Translators
Translating Literature of Other Cultures, New York,
New York.
October 15-18, 1997
New York University
"Yari Yari", Black Women and the Future, a Conference.
Panelist on The Creative Process and Economic Issues in Publishing,
Moderator: Margaret Busby.
July 31, 1997
Franklin Bowles Gallery, Prince Street, New York, NY.
Lecture-Presentation on Louis Aragon and Marc Chagall.
Translation of poems by Aragon accompanying 25 Chagall etchings
exhibited
in the Gallery.
June 26-27, 1997
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
For "The Festival of Arts and Ideas"
Interpretation /
Translation for the performance of the Group KI-YI
and for the KI-YI
Drummers Workshop.
April 16-20, 1997
ALA (African Literature Association),
"FESPACO Nights
in Michigan: African Film and Literature"
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan presentation of an
original
documentary video, "Learning through the Arts: a day in the life of
students
at the Village KI-YI Mbock", Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
Produced with a grant from the N.E.H., Summer 1996.
April 8-10, 1997
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Education
Department, Washington, D.C.
Moderator and interpreter, Prince Williams Cable Broadcast (9 April)
from Hylton High School, presenting the Ki-Yi Mbock Theater Group.
May 17-19, 1996
Skidmore College
"La Francophonie", A Workshop
for Teachers,
Co-taught with Professors Eloïse Brière (SUNY-Albany)
and Hédi
Abdel-Jouad (Skidmore College).
May 2, 1996
Drew University
Delivered keynote address, "La
Littérature
francophone",
to the inductees of Pi Delta Phi, National French Honor Society.
November 4-5, 1995
New York University
A Colloquium--"A New Generation
of French Women Novelists",
7 Francophone and 7 American women writers/translators.
Readings in French and English. Roundtable discussions.
May 24, 1995
PEN American Center
"Francophone: Translating the 'Other'
French Cultures"
Readings and discussions with 3 translators: presented by the PEN
Translation
Committee.
April 4, 1995
Drew University
Departments of Women's Studies, French
& Italian, and African Studies.
Presenting and translating for Werewere Liking:
"Nouvelles
Tendances
dans l'Ecriture Africaine".
March 22-30, 1994
New York University
Tisch School of the Arts--Africana
Studies Program
BLACK CINEMA - A Celebration of Pan-African Film
Translation of Conference Papers and Panel Interpretation for:
Fanta Regina Nacro (Burkina Faso)
Sarah Maldoror (Guadeloupe)
Clément Tapsoba (Burkina Faso)
November 9, 1993
Vassar College
"From the Strange to the Familiar"
Panel Presentation on Translation, Transformation, Transculturation
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