B15: Cultural Mis/Myth/Translation

Seminar Leader: Madelaine Hron, University of Michgian

Friday, April 16, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Crowne Plaza Room 159

Miriam Margala, University of Rochester: �(Mis) Translation and the Trials of the Foreign�

Lorenz Auf der Maur, Zurich University: �Trans-lating Ethiopia Across Three Continents�

Madelaine Hron, University of Michigan: �Myth-Translating the Immigrant Experience: From Voodoo-Flix to Zombi-Fiction�

Rainer Köppl, University of Vienna: �The Politics of Mis-translation and the Mis-translation of Politics�

Saturday, April 17, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Crowne Plaza Room 159

Anat Zanger, Tel-Aviv University: �Myth/Mis Reading Joan of Arc�

Elizabeth Gruber, Lock Haven University: ��Why Dream of Marriage with a Foreigner�: Marriage and Miscegenation The Merchant of Venice�

Lan Dong, University of Massachusetts � Amherst: �Inter- and Intranational Translation of Mulan: Transmission and Transformation�

Sunday, April 18, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Crowne Plaza Room 159

Robert Dulgarian, Emerson College: �Crowning Injustice: Humanism, Tacitism, and (In)fidelity in the Poppea of Busenello an Monteverdi�

Antonia Navarro-Tejero, Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages: �Misunderstanding Womanhood: Colonial/Patriarchal Hangover in South-Asian Mythology�

Benzi Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong: �Myth/Mis/Translation Reconsidered: Diaspora, Dialogue, and Dialectics�

Teresa Hron-Vleggaar, Amsterdam Conservatory of Music: �Contemporary Music through Non-Western Techniques: �Enriching Our Outlook� or �Mistranslating� Music?�