Events

Name: Anne Carson and Alexander Nehamas on “The Question of Translation” | Event
Start: 2005-03-09T18:15:00-05:00
End: 2005-03-09T19:15:00-05:00
Location: Anne Carson and Alexander Nehamas on “The Question of Translation” | Event

Anne Carson and Alexander Nehamas on “The Question of Translation”

General Programming

dateMarch 9, 2005 timeWednesday, 6:15pm EST location Faculty Room, Columbia University, Low Memorial Library

Notes

Free and open to the public
No registration necessary

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Carson and Nehamas discuss the principled limitations of translation, what it omits and what it distorts. They also look at the political effects of these limitations, examining, as an example, the skewed translation of Joan of Arc's testimony and how it was used in her own trial, ultimately condemning her to death.

Participants

Featured Speaker Anne Carson Distinguished Poet-in-Residence New York University
Featured Speaker Alexander Nehamas Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities Princeton University