Transatlantic Travelogues
(A colloquium in honor of Inge Wimmers)
April 22, Friday, 2005
Music Room, Rochambeau House, 84 Prospect St.
Brown University
The Transatlantic Project at Brown
with the cooperation of:
The Department of French Studies
and the co-sponsorship of:
the Lectureship Committee and
the Cogut Humanities Center
10:00am – 12:00 noon
Julio Ortega (Hispanic Studies, Brown): Introduction
Henry F. Majewski (French Studies, Brown): Translating George Sand: Renaissance Venice in French Romantic Style
Leonor Simas-Almeida (Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Brown): The narrator's mediation and the reader's affective response in José Saramago's 'Levantado do Chão'
Sanda Golopentia (French Studies, Brown): Translating orality: Romanian voices
Adela Pineda Franco (Boston University): José Juan Tablada in Japan with Pierre Loti
3:00pm – 5:00pm
Isabelle De Courtivron (MIT): Bilingual Writers: Exile and the Incomplete Return
Christopher Middleton (The University of Texas at Austin): Poetry between languages
Calin-Andrei Mihailescu (University of Western Ontario, Canada): Ego West! The Essay as Travel and Exile in María Zambrano and E.M. Cioran