Troubling Translation(s), a graduate student conference, will convene Friday, February 21 2:30 to 7 PM and Saturday, February 22 10 AM to 6 PM. The conference will gather in the South Asia Studies Seminar Room (rm 551, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center). Panels will engage with "translation" understood capaciously, examining the material and linguistic processes, acts, and politics of translation in a range of contexts and foci.
This event will be held virtually via BlueJeans: https://bluejeans.com/5719363213. The meeting will go live at 12pm, and participants will be muted on entry, but can unmute themselves for Q&A.
A digital anthropologist examines the online lives of millions of people in China, India, Brazil, and across the Middle East—home to most of the world’s internet users—and discovers that what they are doing is not what we imagine.
Please join the Middle East Center for a talk by Dr. Hisham Aidi, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, who will discuss race, music, and the Global Andalus.
Sponsored by the Middle East Center, Department of Music, Penn Forum for Global Islamic Studies, and the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, University of Pennsylvania.
Geosocial Encounters connects documentary artists with researchers and scholar-filmmakers in the environmental humanities. What can video art, experimental documentary, and sensory ethnography teach us about the practice of critical urban, spatial, and environmental research? Conversely, how are scholar-filmmakers utilizing audiovisual tools and contributing to these genres of film and video art?
