[Uwhistory] Katz Lecture this Thursday: Vicente L. Rafael on "Translation in Wartime" (fwd)

[Lori Anthony]

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Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:32:55 -0800
From: UW Simpson Center for the Humanities <uwch at u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Katz Lecture this Thursday: Vicente L. Rafael on
     "Translation in Wartime"


(Photo) The Simpson Center for the Humanities and the
College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Washington present
a Solomon Katz Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities by

Vicente L. Rafael
"Translation in Wartime"


Thursday, January 31, 2008
7:00 pm
Kane Hall Room 120
Reception to follow

Vicente L. Rafael is Professor of History and Southeast Asian Studies at 
the University of Washington. Renowned for the reach, breadth, and robust 
cosmopolitanism of his scholarship, Rafael works across three languages 
and three centuries of modern empire. The author of numerous books, 
including The Promise of the Foreign (2005), White Love and Other Events 
in Filipino History (2000), and Contracting Colonialism (1993), Rafael 
focuses on modernity, nationalism, colonialism, and post-colonialism in 
global history and for the global present.

Rafael's lecture will inquire into the historical, political, and 
pragmatic relationship between translation and empire. Drawing attention 
to the complex ethics of translation practices, he examines how iterations 
of translation consolidate and confound imperial projects. Through a 
consideration of the language initiatives and policies attending the 
so-called War on Terror, Rafael probes the ways in which the demand for 
translation induces and intensifies the war of meanings, the confusion of 
address, and the crisis of identities in U.S.-occupied Iraq.

Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Seating is on a
first-come, first-served basis.

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