2022 EVENTS
Feb 11-15: “Brazilian Modernism at 100” film series / Brooklyn Academy of Music (co-presented by Triple Canopy)
As guest programmer, will introduce films & participate in 2 post-screening talks:
Feb 11: Macunaíma film screening / Panel with Rodrigo Séllos and Ananda Lima / 7pm ET
Feb 12: Searching for Makunaíma film screening / Q&A with director Rodrigo Séllos / 7pm ET
Feb 18: Searching for Makunaíma post-screening discussion / Princeton University / 5pm ET
May 1: Tropicália reading organized by Ananda Lima, with Yohanca Delgado, John Keene, Gwen Kirby, Simeon Marsalis, & Milo R. Muise / 6pm ET (online)
2021 EVENTS
Mar 9: “On the Art of Translation” with Kathryn Crim / University of California, Berkeley / 4pm PT (online)
May 20: “How Do We Create a Philosophy of Translation?” with Heather Cleary / Center for Fiction / 7pm ET (online)
Nov 30: “Translating the Forest” with Flora Thomson-DeVeaux & Pedro Meira Monteiro / Paraty International Literary Festival (FLIP) + Brazil LAB, Princeton University / 16h Brasília, 2pm ET (online)
FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 7pm
Post-theater talk with playwright Ildiko Nemeth
Near to the Wild Heart, theatrical adaptation
New Stage Theatre Company, New York, NY
MONDAY, MARCH 2, 8pm
Translation Awards Presenter
PEN America Literary Awards
The Town Hall, New York, NY
FRIDAY, MAY 8, 8pm ET
Reading with Mónica de la Torre, Alejandro Albarrán Polanco, Rachel Galvin
Ugly Duckling Presse & Proxyco Gallery (online)
THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1pm PT
Lido em LA / Read in LA: Brazil in Translation
University of California, Los Angeles (online)
THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 7pm ET
Women in Translation Month Event
Discussing process of The Paris Review “Art of Translation” interview for Issue 233
With editor Rhian Sasseen on Instagram Live (here)
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2pm ET
“Clarice Lispector, 100 Years” centennial tribute
with translators Idra Novey & Johnny Lorenz, keynote by Jhumpa Lahiri
Brazil Lab, Princeton University, YouTube channel
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2pm GMT / 9am ET
After Clarice: Reading Lispector’s Legacy in the Twenty-First Century
Book preview & Lispector centenary celebration
Oxford University Brazilian Society, YouTube channel 2019
THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 5pm
Writers’ Forum Translation Symposium
With Anna Moschovakis, Patricio Ferrari, Matvei Yankelevich
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 7pm
Moderator, Talking Translation with Ana Luísa Amaral & Margaret Jull Costa
413 Dodge Hall, Columbia University, New York, NY
FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 11am - 12:30pm
Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil Symposium
New York Botanical Garden, Stone Mill
SATURDAY, SEPT 21, 8pm
McSweeney’s 57 Issue Launch
Books Are Magic, Brooklyn, NY
FRIDAY, OCT 21, 3pm
”’Ai, que preguiça…’: O trabalho danado de traduzir Macunaíma
University of São Paulo, Brasil
SATURDAY, NOV 9, 11am
”A Tradutora Aprendiz: Levando a poética híbrida do Macunaíma para o inglês”
Panel with Jaider Esbell and Pedro Meira Monteiro
Amazonian Poetics conference, Brazil LAB
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 8pm
Writing Translation: reading with Anna Moschovakis & Aditi Machado
The Poetry Project, New York, NY
TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 5:30p
"Channeling Clarice Lispector: Translation as a Faithful Performance" Lecture & Workshop
Sarah Lawrence University, Bronxville, NY
THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 6pm
Translation Salon: Katrina Dodson on Clarice Lispector and Reg Gibbons on Antigone
Bookends & Beginnings, Evanston IL
FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 3pm
"The Making of Macunaíma: on Intercultural Translation" Lecture
Department of Spanish & Portuguese
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 7pm
"Diasporic Translations," Bennington Translates Series
Bennington College, Bennington, VT
THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 7pm
Women in Translation Month Reading
WORD bookstore, Brooklyn, NY
FRI - SAT, SEPTEMBER 28-29
Translation Now Conference
Boston University, Boston, MA
OCTOBER 10 - NOVEMBER 14
Translator in Residence
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
OCTOBER 31 - NOVEMBER 3
American Literary Translators Association Conference
Bloomington, IN
Fri., Nov. 2 “Feedback Loop: Translator-Writer-Translator” panel
Sat., Nov. 3 “Translating the Work of the Dead” panel
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8
Brazilian Literature in Translation, conversation with John Keene
Iowa Translation Workshop Visitor Series
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 6pm
In conversation with Carolina de Robertis
Mills College, Oakland, CA
THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 4pm
Rediscovering Clarice Lispector
Center for Latin American Studies
University of California, Berkeley
SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1 - 5pm
Introduction to Literary Translation Workshop
Northern California Translators Association
Golden Gate University, San Francisco, CA
THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 5pm - 6:30pm
"Performing Clarice Lispector: On Translating the Complete Stories"
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
FRIDAY - SATURDAY, MARCH 24 - 25
"The Clarice Factor: Aesthetics, Gender, & Diaspora in Brazil" Conference
Columbia University, New York, NY
TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 7:30pm
GUTS Reading Series with Anna Joy Springer
Dixon Place, New York, NY
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 7pm
"On Translating Clarice Lispector"
In conversation with Susan Bernofsky & Minna Proctor
Columbia University, New York, NY
TUESDAY, APRIL 4
Guest speaker, "Translating America" course
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5
Guest speaker, "Devouring & Being: Anthropophagy & Cannibalism" graduate seminar
New York University, New York, NY
TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 4pm - 5:30pm
“Rediscovering Clarice Lispector Through Translation”
Five College Literary Translation Seminar
Smith College, Northampton, MA
THURSDAY, APRIL 13, noon-1:30pm
"Tupi or Not Tupi: a Crosslinguistic Translation of Mário de Andrade's Macunaíma"
Brown University, Providence, RI
FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 8pm
Us&Them Reading Series
Molasses Books, Brooklyn, NY
FRIDAY, MAY 5, 7pm
PEN World Voices Festival
Translation Slam with Noemi Jaffe & Gregory Pardlo
Nuyorican Poets Cafe, New York, NY
JUNE 4 - 23
Banff International Literary Translation Residency
Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity, Canada
TUESDAY, JULY 4, 6:30pm - 8pm
Clarice Lispector panel, Disquiet International Literary Program
São Luiz Teatro Municipal, Lisbon, Portugal
WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 6:30pm
Salad For President Book Launch
In conversation with author Julia Sherman
Omnivore Books, San Francisco, CA
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 7pm
Book launch for This House, by Ana Martins Marques, translated by Elisa Wouk Almino
Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop, Brooklyn, NY
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2:30 - 3:45pm
"Deviant Translations: Renewing the Language of Clarice Lispector and Mário de Andrade's Macunaíma in English"
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7
“The Brazil Boom: Translating Brazilian Fiction For New Audiences”
"Kitchen Table Translation: Migration, Diaspora, Contexts"
American Literary Translators Association Conference
Minneapolis, MN
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28
"Forms of Faithfulness in Literary Translation"
"Researching Literary Translations"
American Translators Association Conference, Literary Division Guest Speaker
Washington, D.C.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 4pm
"Tradução Intercultural: Desafios"
Panel with Eliane Peixoto & Marta Peixoto (in Portuguese)
Itaú Conexões Conference, Sala Multiuso, Instituto Itaú Cultural
São Paulo, Brazil
NOVEMBER 17 - 18
"After Clarice: Lispector's Legacy" Conference
University of Oxford, England
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1:30pm
"Translation in the Age of World Literature"
20/21st Century Colloquium, English Department
Yale University, New Haven, CT
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10, 5pm
Clarice's Hour
Discussion with Performance by Group .BR
Punto Space, 325 West 38th St., New York, NY
DECEMBER 18, 8pm
Clarice Lispector discussion, Meet the Author Book Club
Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA
THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 7pm
The Elliott Bay Book Company
1521 Tenth Avenue
Seattle, WA
more info
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 7:30pm
In conversation with Lidia Yuknavitch
Powell's City of Books
1005 W Burnside
Portland, OR
more info
THURSDAY, JANUARY 28
In conversation with Jay Ponteri
Marylhurst University
Portland, OR
THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 7:30pm
IN TRANSLATION series
Hosted by Julia Clare Tillinghast & Jay Ponteri
Mother Foucault's Bookshop
523 SE Morrison
Portland, OR
more info
THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 7pm
Architecture of Life Reading Series
Hosted by Corrine Fitzpatrick & David Wilson
Berkeley Art Museum
Berkeley, CA
MONDAY, APRIL 11, 6:30pm
PEN Literary Awards Ceremony
Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th
The New School
New York, NY
more info
SUNDAY, MAY 15, 1pm
Northern California Book Awards, ceremony & book signing
Koret Auditorium, Main Library
San Francisco, CA
FRIDAY - SUNDAY, JUNE 3 - 5
Bay Area Book Festival
Berkeley, CA
Friday, June 3, 6pm, Introduction to Welcome to This House, dir. Barbara Hammer
Pacific Film Archive, more info
Saturday, June 4, 7:30pm, Post-screening conversation with Ramona Nadaff & Idra Novey
O Amor Natural, dir. Heddy Honigmann
Pacific Film Archive, more info
Sunday, June 5, 11:45am, "The Art of Translation" panel
With Amara Lakhous, Jung Young-Moo, & Idra Novey, moderated by Michael Holtmann
Bernard Osher Studio, event video
June 5, 5pm, Host of "Emerging Voices: Young Authors Writing Competition Winners" panel
The Marsh Cabaret, more info
MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 7pm
Language & Thinking Program Faculty Reading
Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7 - 9
American Literary Translators Association Conference
Marriott Oakland City Center
Oakland, CA
more info
Friday, Oct. 7, 11am, Panel on Translation as Performance, OCC 208, Marriott City Center
Friday, Oct. 7, 12:35-1:45pm, National Translation Award Finalist Reading, E.M. Wolfman Books
Saturday, Oct. 8, 3:45-5pm, Us&Them: A Writer/Translator Reading Series, OCC 201, Marriott City Center
Saturday, Oct. 8, 7pm, Multi-Lingual Reading, Mills College, Greek Theater
Sunday, Oct. 9, 11:15am, Panel on How to Share an Author, Junior Ballroom 4, Marriott City Center
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1:40pm
"Translating the ‘Idiorrhythms’ of Clarice Lispector” Presentation
Panel on Language Variation and Polyphony in Literature in Portuguese and in Translation
American Portuguese Studies Association Conference
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
WEDNESDAY - THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19 - 20
LispectorFest
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN
more info
October 19, 4pm
"Rediscovering Clarice," Keynote Address
Hodges Library Auditorium
October 20, 4pm
"Performance & Interpretation: A Workshop on Translating Clarice Lispector"
1210 McClung Tower
MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, noon
Workshop on translating Clarice Lispector
Brazilian Studies Reading Group
Warren Center for the Humanities
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 7pm
"Clarice Lispector Translated," in conversation with Earl Fitz
Curb Center Workshop Room
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
more info
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 7pm
Clarice Lispector Reading & Lecture
Unity—McLaughlin-Walsh Hall
Santa Clara University
Santa Clara, CA
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 8am
American Translators Association Conference
Acceptance of the Lewis Galantière Award for Literary Translation
Hyatt Regency, 5 Embarcadero Center
San Francisco, CA
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 6pm
Pre-show Clarice Lispector discussion with Group .BR
Inside the Wild Heart theater production
Immersive Gallery, 132 Bedford
New York, NY
more info
NOVEMBER 16 - DECEMBER 20
Translation Residency in Brazil
For a new translation of Macunaíma: the Hero Without a Character, by Mário de Andrade
Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, the Amazon (near Manaus)
Sponsored by the Fundação Biblioteca Nacional / Brazilian National Library Foundation
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 10am-4pm
Literary Translation Workshop (in Portuguese & English)
Biblioteca Nacional, Av. Rio Branco, 219– Centro
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
more info
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 4pm
“Macunaíma--O ‘herói da nossa gente’ traduzido” (in Portuguese)
Discussion of new translation of Macunaíma
With André Botelho (UFRJ) and Eduardo Jardim (PUC-Rio), moderated by Rachel Bertol
Biblioteca Nacional, Av. Rio Branco, 219 – Centro
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
more info
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2pm-6pm
Literary Translation Workshop (in Portuguese & English)
Casa Guilherme de Almeida, Centro de Estudos de Tradução Literária
Rua Cardoso de Almeida, 1943 – Sumaré
São Paulo, Brazil
more info
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2pm
"Desafios em traduzir Macunaíma para o inglês"
Lecture on new translation of Macunaíma (in Portuguese)
Auditório do Centro Cultural do IEL
Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Campinas, Brazil
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 7pm
"A hora de Clarice," Clarice Lispector celebration (in Portuguese)
In conversation with Yudith Rosenbaum (USP)
Livraria Martins Fontes
Av. Paulista, 509 – Bela Vista
São Paulo, Brazil
more info
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 3pm
"Literatura brasileira traduzida: Machado de Assis, Mário de Andrade, & Lygia Fagundes Telles"
Panel discussion on translating Brazilian literature into Arabic, English, and Serbian (in Portuguese)
With recipients of the Brazilian National Library Foundation Translation Residency Grant:
Ana Kuzmanovic (Serbia), Katrina Dodson (US), and Mark Gamal (Egypt), moderated by Simone Homem de Mello
Casa Guilherme de Almeida, Centro de Estudos de Tradução Literária
Rua Cardoso de Almeida, 1943 – Sumaré
São Paulo, Brazil
more info
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 6:30pm
"Perto do coração clariciano" Lecture on Clarice Lispector (in Portuguese)
VIII Seminário de Pesquisa, Departamento de Teoria Literária e Literatura Comparada
Sala 107, Prédio de Letras
Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
São Paulo, Brazil
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 4pm
"A hora de Clarice," Clarice Lispector celebration
Conversation with Paloma Vidal (in Portuguese)
Instituto Moreira Salles
Rua Marquês de São Vicente 476 – Gávea
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
more info
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