Week 4
"The Importance of Voice: Making Translations 'Sound' Good" by Ms. Erica Friedman
The Japanese Studies Program is pleased to offer a series of four workshops in SS21 on the J-Pop Translation & Adaptation. Each workshop focuses on a key aspect of translation & adaptation in the field of Japanese popular culture, in particular that of manga. While this workshop series presents Japanese materials, many of the takeaways will be relevant to anyone aspiring to work professionally as a translator. The language of instruction will be English, and everyone is welcome, even those who do not have Japanese language backgrounds. Each workshop will include hands-on activities focusing on strategies and methodologies for translation & adaptation. Those who attend all four workshops will receive a certificate of participation.
Please register in advance by contacting the series organizer, Dr. Catherine Ryu at .
This workshop series is supported by the Asian Studies Center Virtual Speaker Program and is organized by the MSU Japanese Studies Program
In recent decades, people living in Southeast Asia have witnessed major shifts from predominantly subsistence agriculture to industrializing economies, with attendant changes in migration, crop production systems, and major infrastructure (roads, dams, industrial estates). This series of four webinars will explore how communities in the region are experiencing the economic, social, and cultural dislocations of these transformations. We will focus on forests, rivers, documentarians and writers, and Imaging Environmental Futures.
Speakers:
Moderator:
Video Recording: youtu.be/GLhMZsANTyo
Co-sponsored by
Dr. Shamsul Bari (Bangladesh) served for over
twenty years with the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),
including as the Regional Director for Central
Asia, South West Asia, North Africa and the
Middle East. In 2008 he was appointed
Independent Expert on the situation of human
rights in Somalia by the United Nations
Human Rights Council and served in that role
until 2014. Shamsul Bari is a Ph.D and a
Barrister at Law. He has practiced law at the
Dhaka High Court and has taught previously
at the Universities of Chicago and Minnesota.Shamsul Bari, Chairman, Research Initiatives, Bangladesh (RIB), and a former Director of UNHCR
Speakers:
Micah R. Fisher, Fellow, East-West Center, Research Program
Naw Pe Tha Law, Advocate, Chiang Mai
Courtney Work, Associate Professor, National Chengchi University
Ahmad Dhiaulhaq, Senior Researcher, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
Moderator
Daniel Ahlquist, Assistant Professor, James Madison College, Michigan State University
Sponsored by the Luce Foundation, East-West Center, MSU Asian Studies Center, UH CSEAS, Chiang Mai University, Center for Chinese Studies UHM
Helen Zia is a Fulbright Scholar and a graduate of Princeton University's first coeducational class. She attended medical school but quit after completing two years, then went to work as a construction laborer, an autoworker, and a community organizer, after which she discovered her life's work as a writer.
Helen Zia is the author of Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People, a finalist for the prestigious Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize and referred to by President Bill Clinton in two separate speeches in the Rose Garden. She coauthored, with Wen Ho Lee, My Country Versus Me, which reveals what happened to the Los Alamos scientist who was falsely accused of being a spy for China in the "worst case since the Rosenbergs." She was Executive Editor of Ms. Magazine and is a founding board co-chair of the Women's Media Center. Her articles, essays and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, books and anthologies, receiving awards for her ground-breaking stories.
Sponsored by the Asian Pacific American Studies Program and the Asian Studies Center.
Helen Zia is a Fulbright Scholar and a graduate of Princeton University's first coeducational class. She attended medical school but quit after completing two years, then went to work as a construction laborer, an autoworker, and a community organizer, after which she discovered her life's work as a writer.
Helen Zia is the author of Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People, a finalist for the prestigious Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize and referred to by President Bill Clinton in two separate speeches in the Rose Garden. She coauthored, with Wen Ho Lee, My Country Versus Me, which reveals what happened to the Los Alamos scientist who was falsely accused of being a spy for China in the "worst case since the Rosenbergs." She was Executive Editor of Ms. Magazine and is a founding board co-chair of the Women's Media Center. Her articles, essays and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, books and anthologies, receiving awards for her ground-breaking stories.
Sponsored by the Asian Pacific American Studies Program and the Asian Studies Center.
Helen Zia is a Fulbright Scholar and a graduate of Princeton University's first coeducational class. She attended medical school but quit after completing two years, then went to work as a construction laborer, an autoworker, and a community organizer, after which she discovered her life's work as a writer.
She is the author of Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People, a finalist for the prestigious Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize and referred to by President Bill Clinton in two separate speeches in the Rose Garden. She coauthored, with Wen Ho Lee, My Country Versus Me, which reveals what happened to the Los Alamos scientist who was falsely accused of being a spy for China in the "worst case since the Rosenbergs." She was Executive Editor of Ms. Magazine and is a founding board co-chair of the Women's Media Center. Her articles, essays and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, books and anthologies, receiving awards for her ground-breaking stories.
Dr. Ali is the author of Delusional States:Feeling Rule and Development in Pakistan's Northern Frontier. She received her PhD from Cornell University. Her research interests include Environmental Education, Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Anthropology of Islam and Muslim Societies, Postcolonial and Cultural Studies, and Social Studies Education.
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