Presented By: Germanic Languages & Literatures
Revisiting Architecture in Translation
Keynote for Germanic Languages & Literatures Graduate Student Conference: De/Limiting Translation
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7
5:30-7:00 pm Keynote: Esra Akcan
Esra Akcan is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Architecture at Cornell University and board member at the Institute for Comparative Modernities. Akcan's research on modern and contemporary architecture and urbanism foregrounds the intertwined histories of Europe, West Asia, and Northeast Africa and offers new ways to understand architecture's role in global, social, and environmental justice. She has written extensively on critical and postcolonial theory, racism, immigration, reparations and transitional justice, architectural photography, translation, neoliberalism, and global history. Her book Architecture in Translation: Germany, Turkey and the Modern House (Duke University Press, 2012) offers a new way to understand the global movement of architecture that extends the notion of translation beyond language to visual fields. It advocates a commitment to a new culture of translatability from below and in multiple directions for cosmopolitan ethics and global justice."
5:30-7:00 pm Keynote: Esra Akcan
Esra Akcan is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Architecture at Cornell University and board member at the Institute for Comparative Modernities. Akcan's research on modern and contemporary architecture and urbanism foregrounds the intertwined histories of Europe, West Asia, and Northeast Africa and offers new ways to understand architecture's role in global, social, and environmental justice. She has written extensively on critical and postcolonial theory, racism, immigration, reparations and transitional justice, architectural photography, translation, neoliberalism, and global history. Her book Architecture in Translation: Germany, Turkey and the Modern House (Duke University Press, 2012) offers a new way to understand the global movement of architecture that extends the notion of translation beyond language to visual fields. It advocates a commitment to a new culture of translatability from below and in multiple directions for cosmopolitan ethics and global justice."
Co-Sponsored By
- Institute for Research on Women and Gender
- History of Art
- Comparative Literature
- International Institute
- Department of Film, Television, and Media
- Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies
- Romance Languages & Literatures RLL
- Department of American Culture
- Department of History
- Department of English Language and Literature
- Slavic Languages & Literatures
- Alamanya: Transnational German Studies
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