The 13th annual Red River Conference on World Literature will meet April 16-17 at the North Dakota State University Alumni Center. Aaron Poochigian, poet, scholar and translator will give the keynote address on Friday, April 16, at 4:30 p.m. in the Alumni Center's Reimers room. The keynote address is free and open to the public.
Poochigian's address, "Translating from Translationese," will consider the stages inherent within the translation process, English idiom and interpretive choices the translator must make. He is originally from North Dakota and is a graduate of Minnesota State University Moorhead and the University of Minnesota where he earned a doctorate. He lives in New York.
Cecilia Mafla-Bustamante, professor of Spanish at MSUM, and NDSU students who will present scenes from Richard Wilbur's famous translation of "The Misanthrope" by Moliere, directed by Paul Lifton, associate professor of theatre arts at NDSU, also will be featured at the conference.
This year's theme is "Translations: Passage to World Literature." A number of visiting scholars from around the world will present papers on Friday and Saturday.
The annual conference is sponsored by the NDSU English and Modern Language Departments under the direction of Carlos Hawley. For more information, call (701) 231-8848.