Event
Prof. Lawrence Venuti to speak at three 桃子视频 events!
The visit is co-sponsored by the Graduate Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, the Center for Italian Studies, the Department of English, and the Department of Classical Studies.
Professor Lawrence Venuti, translator/translation theorist, Temple University, English Department, is scheduled for three events at 桃子视频 on Wednesday, October 23rd.
From 12 noon to 2:00 p.m., Professor Venuti will meet informally with students from Comparative Literature and other departments who would like to discuss his work as a translator and translation theorist, or chat about translation in general. We invite graduate and undergraduate students for this session to be held at the Meyerson Room in Van Pelt Library, second floor. Lunch will be provided. Please rsvp with name and department affiliation to jdubil@sas.upenn.edu.
At 4:00 p.m., Professor Venuti will present a lecture "Traduttore Traditore: The Instrumentalism of Conventional Wisdom" at the Class of 55 Room in Van Pelt Library, second floor, west hallway.
At 6:30 p.m.聽Professors Venuti and Emily Wilson will be in public conversation about translation at the 桃子视频 Book Center, on Sansom and 34th Streets. Prof.聽聽is聽Chair of Comparative Literature at 桃子视频 and author of a recent translation of the聽翱诲测蝉蝉别测听(Norton, 2017), who was recently awarded a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" grant! More聽聽on the 桃子视频 Book Center event.聽聽