Living in Languages Colloquium 2025  - Invitation to participate

Living in Languages Colloquium 2025  - Invitation to participate 

The Department of English and the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures will be presenting the fifth Living in Languages Colloquium in the upcoming Spring of 2025.  It will once again be focused on issues of “translation” broadly understood, in a literal but also expanded sense that can address not only questions of reading and ideology, nor only core theorists whose focus on this topic remains vital, but also translation understood as exile, displacement geographical and linguistic, and translation in our era of twitter consciousness, warring media bubbles, and the screen as public space. 

This event will take place in early April – Wednesday and Thursday April 2 -3 -- on the University at Albany campus.  The Keynote Address will be in person (see below).  All panels and events will be on zoom, to accommodate global participants and registrants, with panels accounting for time differences in International Scholar presentations.  Panels will involve faculty response from moderators and general Q&A. 

Keynote Address by Kazim Ali -- a poet, a translator, an essayist, a professor at UC San Diego, and a UAlbany alum – who will speak on “Making America Monstrous Again: Queerness, Community, and the Problems of Translation in Frankenstein.”  He comes under the auspices of the Department of English, The Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, and the Writers Institute. 

We hope that our graduate students in ENG and LLC and other departments, as well as our friends abroad, International Scholars past and present, will be keen to participate in our 2025 Living in Languages Colloquium. 

For Colloquium 2025 we would need by December 31 a brief (200 words) description of content; by January 31 a 500-word abstract.  Please email Helen Elam in English ([email protected]) or Ilka Kressner in LLC ([email protected]) to indicate interest as per above. 

We also want to highlight our Living in Languages Journal—online, open access, peer-reviewed.  Issues 1 and 2 are available at https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/liljournal/. 

Issue 3 forthcoming.