Winter reception 2010

Our Winter Reception took place yesterday at Bill Johnston’s house. Thanks to Bill for hosting - it was a delightful celebration of the end of the semester!

Professors David Hertz and Paul Losensky were both

in a cheerful holiday mood!

Everybody likes to party in the kitchen

Professor Vivian Halloran with students

Laila Amine and Julie Le Hagarat

Our chair Bill Johnston entertains new graduate

students Avi Lang, Allison Posner, and Sally

Morrell

Ilinca Zarifopol Johnston Colloquium Fall 2010

Our second IZJ colloquium of the semester will take place on Friday, December 3, 1:30pm-3:00pm, at the Slocum Room of the Lilly library (1200 East 7th Street). Come join us for this colloquium of translations and a round-table discussion. A reception with light refreshments will follow the presentations in BH 901.

Presenters	Translation
Ashley Pérez	Max Aub’s Impossible Sinai
Karen Jallatyan	Aghasi Ayvazyan’s Kids
Julie Le Hégarat	Virginie Despentes’s King Kong Theory
Catherine Riccio	Günter Seuren’s Winter Piano for Dogs
Meg Arenberg	Abdilatif Abdalla’s Sauti ya Dhiki

Our first P.A.B.S.T. event!

Our Inaugural P.A.B.S.T. (Poetry and Beer Sharing Time) took place today from 5:30 to 7:00 at Nick's in the Hump Room. Thanks to all those who read and those who attended!

Bill Johnston reads from his translation of

Witold Gombrowicz's Bacacay

Ilinca Zarifopol Johnston Colloquium Fall 2010

The Department of Comparative Literature and the Student Advisory Board cordially invite you to the first Ilinca Zarifopol Johnston Colloquium of the 2010/2011 academic year.

When?  Friday October 29, 2010, 1-3pm

Where? The Slocum puzzle room of the Lily Library

What?  Holly Schreiber, Julie Le Hegarat, and Juyoung Jin will present their recent papers. A reception with refreshments and food will follow.

ALTA 2010 Conference

Our department was well represented at this year's ALTA conference in Philadelphia (October 21-24). Professor Bill Johnston organized and moderated a panel—"Everyday Worlds, Everyday Words: Translating the Quotidian in 20th Century Prose"—for Magdalena Mullek and Urszula Paleczek, two of our students currently working on the Certificate in Literary Translation. Magdalena discussed translating the banal in Pavol Rankov's novel Stalo sa prvého septembra (alebo inokedy), and Urszula in Inga Iwasiow's novel Bambino. A big thank you goes out to Bill for organizing and moderating our panel and to Lizi Geballe for taking pictures and for her moral support!