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2020 Program Sessions

546. Is Translation a “Loaded Gun”?

1:45 PM–3:00 PM Jan 11, 2020 (US - Pacific)

WSCC - 616

Session Information

Description: Speakers reflect on Dickinson’s poem “My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun” in translation: Why translate this work now? What is carried over? What’s left standing in corners, in transit?

Speakers

Stephen Eric Berry, independent researcher

Anne-Lise François, U of California, Berkeley

Barbara Mossberg, U of Oregon

Adalberto Muller, Fluminense Federal U, Rio de Janeiro

Presider

Antoine Cazé, U de Paris

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