Written Arts Program, Spanish Studies, LAIS Program, Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative, and Asian Studies Program Present

Translation Made Me: What I Learned from Translating Maturana, Varela, Anzaldúa, Glissant, and Many Others

I am a poet, but before being a poet, I was a translator, and I still am. Having published translations in the humanities and literature from English, French, and Spanish to Japanese, my verbal matrix of creation has been shaped by translation, through translation. This talk will reveal some of my secrets and ultimately the meaning of Japan's modernity for its language.

Keijiro Suga is currently the visiting chair of Asian Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is professor of critical theory at Meiji University in Tokyo, where his research focuses on the analysis of cultural production in contemporary global society. The author of ten books of essays and a prolific translator from English, Spanish, and French, he was awarded the prestigious Yomiuri Prize for Literature in 2009 for his travelogue Transversal Journeys.

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For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].

Time: 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Olin Humanities, Room 102

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