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Program Graduate Marko De La Garza ’20 at the 2023 Observatorio Instituto Cervantes Symposium

May 30, 2023 by UMass Boston's Translation Certificate Program

We’re pleased to announce that our program graduate Marko De La Garza will be presenting at the 2023 Observatorio Instituto Cervantes Symposium on June 2nd. His presentation is titled “How AI Web Development and Translation Programs Are Impacting the Global Spanish Community and the Spanish Language” (Zoom).

To attend:

  • RSVP: https://bit.ly/RSVP-Observatorio
  • or email: info-observatory@fas.harvard.edu

The Cervantes Institute at Harvard University organizes its eighth annual symposium, with the general theme “Spanish in/for Science and Technology,” and an attractive program including two keynote lectures by prestigious researchers: Roger Fu (John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences at Harvard University) and Pilar Manchón (Senior Director of Engineering, AI Research Strategy, at Google Research). The conference will also feature a range of experts from the fields of Spanish language and Hispanic cultures, as well as from the sciences, who will share unpublished papers covering a variety of topics related to the general theme chosen this year.

  • June 1st Keynote Lecture (1pm, ET): “Las estrellas a través de las araucarias: La etnoastronomía mapuche-pewenche” by Roger Fu (Harvard University)
  • June 2nd Keynote Lectutre (1pm, ET): “La importancia de la lengua española en la IA Generativa” by Pilar Manchón (Google Research)

See attached program for further details: simposio_programa_2023_-_vf_2

https://cervantesobservatorio.fas.harvard.edu/en/activities/other/2023-observatorio-instituto-cervantes-symposium

 

 

 

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Book Launch and Transcreation Workshop at UMass Boston | May 10, 11am-12:30pm 

May 3, 2023 by UMass Boston's Translation Certificate Program

At this interactive event, three CLA Faculty will present recent and forthcoming book projects related to translation as a form of poetic praxis, invention, and research. At the end, there will be a Transcreation Activity inviting audience participation—no experience with poetry or translation required.

  • Isabel C. Gómez (Associate Professor, Latin American & Iberian Studies) 

Cannibal Translation: Literary Reciprocity in Contemporary Latin America (Northwestern UP 2023) excavates a network of Latin American translation projects that resist assimilation by digesting, transforming, and challenging source materials.

  • Patrick Barron (Professor, English) 

Gianni Celati: Selected Essays and Dialogues (University College London Press, forthcoming 2023) is a selection of Italian writer and filmmaker Gianni Celati’s critical work from the late 1960s to the near present translated into English & ranging in topic from environmental perception and archaeological conceptions of historical knowledge to street theater, slapstick comedy, photography, and translation.

  • Daniel C. Remein (Associate Professor, English)  

The Heat of Beowulf (Manchester 2022) investigates twentieth-century poets Jack Spicer’s and Robin Blaser’s encounter with Beowulf as a comparative horizon by which to understand the multisensory, synesthetic, ecopoetical world of the Old English poem.

Integrated Science Complex (ISC) Room 3300 

**refreshments provided** 

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“Multimodal Transcreation, Message Accessibility, and Empowering Minorities in Crisis” – Friday, April 21 at 12 pm ET via Zoom

April 18, 2023 by UMass Boston's Translation Certificate Program

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Translation Conversation Series: Belén Gopegui and Mark Schafer Present Stay This Day and Night with Me

April 5, 2023 by UMass Boston's Translation Certificate Program

Thursday
April 6th
1 PM
VIRTUAL EVENT
Click here for more information and event registration.

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