Travelling ideas and their baggage
To travel is a privilege not afforded to all. While that might seem a bit hyperbolic in times like these, it is in fact a reality for most of the world.
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From Text Choice to the Individual Word – the Political Decisions of a Translator
Within the framework of the Resonance program organized by the Goethe-Institutes in France, Justine Coquel and Anna von Rath chatted with Lucie Lamy, who, together with Jean-Philippe Rossignol, translated May Ayim’s works into French.
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Author meets translator: a conversation with Marion Kraft and Eva Bonné
A warm invitation to the next “Author meets Translator” event: A conversation with Marion Kraft and Eva Bonné about politically sensitive writing and translation.
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Author Meets Translator with Mithu Sanyal and Alta L. Price
On 20 September 2023, we spoke with Mithu Sanyal and Alta L. Price as part of our event series “Author meets Translator”. You can read the conversation here.
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Race and Technology
Chude-Sokei explores the historical connections between race and technology. He looks back to the time of the transatlantic trade in enslaved people and works his way through various historical stages to current issues surrounding artificial intelligence.
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Translator Meets Author with Mithu Sanyal and Alta L. Price
A warm invitation to the next poco.lit. Event: A conversation with Mithu Sanyal and Alta L. Price about language, cultural appropriation, cancel culture and humour.
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We are part of the Goethe-Institut’s Resonance Program
We continue to develop our project macht.sprache. for politically sensitive translation! As part of the Goethe-Institut’s Resonance Program, we will start laying the foundation for expanding macht.sprache. to include the language pair German-French.
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Tomb of Sand
Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree was unexpected. It’s a tale that hits like a lost, slow-moving freight train. A rambling, chugging adventure in prose that diverts again and again before pulling you back to its core. It is a tale of Partition sprinkled throughout with magical realism.
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Writing and translating are not neutral: an interview with Kavita Bhanot
Kavita Bhanot is a writer, editor, translator, teacher, and activist based in Birmingham, UK. We were lucky enough to chat to her about her work and her perspective on translation – translation as a political act, a form of violence, and a tool to foster dialogue when used responsibly.
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Translation and connection: an interview with Marion Kraft
As part of our macht.sprache. project, we organized a workshop at the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin in early September 2022. This gave us the opportunity to speak with German and American studies scholar Marion Kraft about her translation work. We discussed Audre Lorde, linguistic changes, new translations and team translations.
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