EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE: 4 p.m., Tuesday, October 9, 2012

EVENT: Luise von Flotow, professor and director of the School of Translation and Interpretation at the University of Ottawa, will deliver a lecture on women in translation studies, as part of the Rackham Centennial Alumni lecture series.

Her research traces and describes the movement of Canadian writing, both fiction and nonfiction, into Latin America via translation. It examines the scope of this cultural transfer, the trajectories along which it moves, the agents and networks that promote it, and the images of Canada circulated as a result.

Von Flotow received her Ph.D. in 1991 from the University of Michigan. She is the author of “Translation and Gender: Translating in the Era of Feminism” and editor of “Translating Canada” and “Translating Women.”

The lecture, part of the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Translation Theme Semester, is free to the public.

PLACE: Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery www.umich.edu/~info/mapsAndDirections.html#anchor_centralCampus

SPONSORS: Department of Comparative Literature, Rackham Graduate School–Rackham Centennial Alumni Lectures, and the LSA Translation Theme Semester

WEB LINK: http://translation.lsa.umich.edu