Join the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan as we launch our 2021-22 Mellon Sawyer Seminar: Sites of Translation in the Multilingual Midwest.

Funded by the Mellon Foundation, the seminar series draws on interdisciplinary resources within and beyond the University of Michigan to explore various midwestern histories, practices, and cultures of translation.

Join us via Zoom to meet the Sawyer Seminar team, learn about our shared project, and hear about this semester’s seminars: Jewish Multilingualism in the Midwest: Yiddish Translations of Urban Experience and Translation and Memory: Hispanofilipino Literature and the Archive in the US Midwest.

Presenters will include Barbara Alvarez (UM Library), Maya Barzilai (Middle East Studies and Judaic Studies), Kristin Dickinson (German and Middle East Studies), Julie Evershed (Language Resource Center), Julia Irion Martins (Comparative Literature), Marina Mayorski (Comparative Literature), Philomena Meechan (Language Resource Center), Christi Merrill (Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature), Benjamin Paloff (Slavic Languages and Comparative Literature), Yopie Prins (English and Comparative Literature), Marlon James Sales (Critical Translation Studies), and Silke-Maria Weineck (German and Comparative Literature).