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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

5:00pm Reception, Rochambeau Library