Translation and the Poetry Traditions of China and Tibet - Event 2

Translation and the Poetry Traditions of China and Tibet

Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies, Seminar Room

Wesleyan University. 343 Washington Terrace. Middletown, CT 06549

Friday, February 8, 10:00 am

Workshop on Translation and the Poetry Traditions of China and Tibet

A workshop focused on the problems and prospects of translating premodern and contemporary poetry from the Chinese and Tibetan. Presentations and conversations will cover the processes of literary and cultural translation. Examples will draw upon classical and contemporary expressions of religious, cultural, and political thought and commentary across multiple traditions. Presentations consider translations as readings, interpretations, and arguments about the source text, its author, its time and place, and about its reception in new spaces.

Eleanor Goodman, “Working with Words: Reading and Translating Chinese Migrant Worker Poetry”

Ian Boyden, “Bearing Witness: Translating the Poetry of Tsering Woeser”

Kurtis R. Schaeffer, “Tibetan Buddhist Poetry: Playing with Translations”