Events: March 2008 Archives

As part of the English Department's Spring Lecture Series, Rey Chow will be presenting "Translator, Traitor; Translator, Mourner (or, Dreaming of Intercultural Equivalence)" on Thursday, March 27th at 5:30pm in Tuttleman 101.

Rey Chow is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Brown University, where she teaches in the Departments of Comparative Literature and Modern Culture and Media. She is the author of seven books, including The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Columbia UP, 2002), The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work (Duke UP, 2006), and Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films: Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility, (Columbia UP, 2007), and over seventy articles.  Her work has been widely translated and anthologized.

A pre-talk reception will take place from 4:00-5:00pm in 821 Anderson Hall. 

Canadian poet Lisa Robertson will visit Temple as part of the Poets & Writers Series.

Robertson's books of poetry include The Men: A Lyric Book, XEclogue, Debbie: An Epic, The Weather, and Rousseau's Boat.  She writes essays and collaborative texts for the visual arts, and these have been collected in the book Occasional Works and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture.

Robertson has taught or held residencies at many universities, including Naropa’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. After 4 years living in France, where she began translating the poetry of Eric Suchere and Michele Bernstein's Situationist novel Tous les chevaux du roi, she is now visiting artist at California College of the Arts.

The event is free, open to the public, and will take place on Thursday, March 20th, 8:00pm, Temple University Center City Campus (TUCC), 1515 Market Street, room 222.