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Tomorrow's Translation Studies colloquium

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Tomorrow from 3 – 4:30 p.m., in room 291 of the Undergraduate Library, there will be a colloquium dealing with Issues and Trends in Terminology and Computer-Assisted Translation.

Speaking will be Jost Zetzsche, co-founder of International Writers’ Group, and Barbara Inge Karsch, owner of BIK Terminology. You can read more about the speakers at the Center for Translation Studies’ page for the event.

A reception from 4:30 – 5:00 in the Literatures and Languages Library will follow the event. The event is cosponsored by the School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, University Libraries, and the Department of Linguistics. This colloquium is free and open to the public — we hope to see you there!

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Intensive Foreign Language Instruction Program (IFLIP) – Winter 2012

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Want to learn a new language or brush up on old one? The Intensive Foreign Language Instruction Program (IFLIP) at the UIUC is a great (and fun) way to do so. Once again the program is offering winter session courses. Here are some key facts about the opportunity:

·         Open to members of the University community and to the general public.

·         Classes meet Monday through Friday, 3 hours a day, for two weeks (except holidays).

·         Taught by advanced graduate students or faculty.

·         Courses focus on conversational skills, travel preparation and language survival skills.

·         There is minimal homework, no attendance policy, and no academic credit.

Please register by December 9, 2011.

·         Classes with fewer than 10 participants by December 9, 2011, are subject to cancellation.

WINTER SESSION

JANUARY 3-13, 2012

Languages and levels offered:

Chinese, Elementary

French, Intermediate

German, Elementary

Italian, Elementary

Japanese, Elementary

Portuguese, Elementary

Spanish, Elementary

Spanish, Intermediate

Spanish, Advanced

*All classes meet 9AM-Noon, Monday-Friday

For more information, see http://www.slcl.illinois.edu/resources/iflip/ or contact SLCL@illinois.edu

Register at http://go.illinois.edu/iflip/register

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Literature from Rio Panel (Cityscapes of Rio and Bahia Symposium)

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The Center for Translation Studies is co-sponsoring a Symposium titled Cityscapes of Rio and Bahia, Brazil at the Americas Society of New York. This event will feature contemporary Brazilian writers and translators and scholars of Brazilian literature, who will discuss currents in poetry, fiction, essays and song lyrics from the two cities. Elizabeth Lowe, Director for the Center for Translation Studies, will moderate the panel on Rio de Janeiro on November 14. She is the guest academic editor of Review 83, which will be launched on November 15.

The symposium opens on Thursday, November 10, 7:00 p.m. with Writing from Bahia; continues with the above program; and concludes Tuesday, November 15, 7:00 p.m., with a launch of Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas (Rio and Bahia). Visit http://as.americas-society.org/calevent.php?id=1173 and/or http://as.americas-society.org/calevent.php?id=1175 .

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Oct. 26: Janice Harrington reads at Illini Union Bookstore

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On Wednesday, October 26 at 4:30 p.m., poet Janice N. Harrington will be reading from her work at the Author’s Corner on the second floor of the Illini Union Bookstore.

Harrington’s most recent book is The Hands of Strangers: Poems from the Nursing Home, published by BOA Editions. According to a blurb on the publisher’s page for the book:

The Hands of Strangers portrays the tensions and moments of grace between aged nursing home residents and their healthcare workers.  What does it mean to be a nurses’ aide in a nursing home, the lowest of the low, the typically-female worker who provides physical care for the devalued bodies of the elderly? What is it to live one’s remaining life on a county ward as an indigent elder?  The poems show women in motion: they lift bodies, push wheelchairs, give treatments, and  perform the myriad tasks of caretaking.  The poems show aides as anonymous figures laboring under routines, time clocks, and a distant medical hierarchy.  They also tell the stories of how the nursing home industry reshapes lives, bodies, and identities of both aides and the aged.

Harrington teaches in the Creative Writing program at UIUC, and is also the author of Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone (winner of the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize) and several children’s books, Going North, The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County, and Roberto Walks Home.

Some more resources on Harrington and her work:

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Open Access Week 2011

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Open Access Week

Open Access Week 2011 is this week from October 24th-28th, and it’s a celebration for everyone:  If you read journal articles, publish journal articles, or think you might publish some day in the future, Open Access is for you!

What is “open access” you may ask? The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, the leading advocate for Open Access, defines it in their Open Access guide as

The free, immediate, availability on the public Internet of those works which scholars give to the world without expectation of payment – permitting any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full text of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software or use them for any other lawful purpose.

Interested in learning more? Visit the Library’s Scholarly Commons for information and advice on open access and your rights as an author.  And if you want to find open access journals that you can use, check out the Directory of Open Access Journals: it lists open access journals in all disciplines, including Languages and Literatures journals and Linguistics journals.

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Andrew Ervin and Andy Frazee to read at UIUC

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Two UIUC alumni will be returning tomorrow, October 19th for a reading at the Illini Union Bookstore’s Author’s Corner, at 4:30 p.m.

Andrew Ervin is the author of last year’s Extraordinary Renditions, and Andy Frazee has written two books of poetry, The Body, the Rooms and That the World Should Never Again Be Destroyed by Flood.

Below are links to some resources on Ervin and Frazee’s work:

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John Warner to read at UIUC

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This coming Monday, October 17th, John Warner will be reading at the Illini Union Bookstore’s Author’s Corner at 4:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public, and is part of the Carr Reading Series.

Warner is the author of the recent novel The Funny Man, as well as a comical creative writing guide, Fondling Your Muse, and So You Want to Be President? and My First Presidentiary (with Kevin Guilfoile). Warner is also editor of McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.

We’ve gathered some more resources on Warner’s work:

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Tomorrow: LetterMPress at Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Calling all lovers of typography!  Tomorrow, October 12th, The No. 44 Society at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library will host a presentation by the LetterMPress Project.  From the RBML:

“Local graphic artist and web designer John Bonadies will talk about his “LetterMPress” project. Check out the video!

LetterMpress™ will be a virtual letterpress environment—released first on the iPad—that will allow anyone to create authentic-looking letterpress designs and prints.

The design process is the same as the letterpress process—you place and arrange type and cuts on a press bed, lock the type, ink the type, and print. You will be able to create unlimited designs, with multiple colors, using authentic vintage wood type and art cuts. And you can print your design directly from LetterMpress or save it as an image for import it into other applications.

The Soybean Press is looking to collaborate with him on some digital projects.

Please join us for a fascinating look at how a digital tool can breathe new life into old wooden type.

All are welcome and refreshments will be served.”

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IPRH film series for fall 2011: "Borders"

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The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities will be sponsoring a series of film screenings during the fall semester, starting October 6. IPRH’s theme for this year is “Borders” (about which you can read more at the IPRH’s Annual Themes page), and the films selected for the series all relate to this theme.

The schedule for the fall series:

  • October 6: The Lord Is Not On Trial Here Today (Jay Rosenstein, 2010)
  • October 27: No Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2007)
  • November 3: The Commitments (Alan Parker, 1991)
  • November 17: Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)

All screenings will be held at Krannert Art Museum at 5:30 p.m. in Room 62 (the Auditorium). Read more, including synopses, at the IPRH’s film series page.

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Upcoming Conference: The Dialectics of Orientalism in Early Modern Europe

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Next Friday-Saturday, October 7-8, a conference on The Dialectics of Orientalism in Early Modern Europe will take place at the University of Illinois. You can read a summary of the conference’s themes and concerns at the homepage for the conference.

You can also view a program for the conference, with synopses of the presentations (click on titles of presentations to read more).

Keynote speakers are Roberto Dainotto of Duke University, Barbara Fuchs of UCLA, and Nabil Matar of the University of Minnesota.

Members of the UIUC community do not need to register to attend; otherwise, information on registration is available here (please note that the deadline for registration is Oct. 2, this coming Sunday).

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