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Student Report on Migratory Ghost Reading Event
Pictured left to right: Maya Peak ‘25, Juli Min, Sidney Brown ‘26, and Zhou Sivan. By Rebecca Combs On September 22nd, 2024, the HRC welcomed authors Juli Min and Zhou Sivan, along with Migratory Ghost DKU student winners Maya Peak ‘25 and Sidney Brown ‘26, to read their award-winning works in an immersive session. About […]
Migratory Ghost Series Finale with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen : Screening of The Sympathizer,Episode 01 & QA Section
Time: Thursday, Dec. 5 @ 6:30 PM Location: CCTE Theater Food and drink will be provided. Date: December 6 Time: 11:15 AM Location: IB Lecture Hall About Viet Thanh Nguyen: Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was adapted into an HBO series. A recipient of Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships, his […]
Translating the Mysterious
Translating the Mysterious HUM Space (AB1075A) Monday 11 November, 6:30-8:00pm Translating from one language to another is made more difficult when the terms in question relate to the unseen world of gods, ghosts, and ancestors. Is a Chinese gui 鬼 really the same as the English “ghost” or “devil”? Is a xian 仙 a “fairy” or an “immortal”? How can translate […]
Migratory Ghosts Series: Open Call for Student Works
Calling all writers with a creative (and optionally spooky) spark! Submit 3-5 poems or 2-5 pages of prose to be judged by our visiting writers, Juli Min and Zhou Sivan. A winner from each genre will be chosen to read alongside them on November 22. Let your words haunt us! Bio: Juli Min is the […]
Migratory Ghosts Series: A Reading By Megan Mcdowell
Megan McDowell has translated many of the most important Latin American writers working today, including Alejandro Zambra, Samanta Schweblin, Mariana Enríquez, and Lina Meruane. Her translations have won the National Book Award for Translated Literature, the English PEN award, the Premio Valle-Inclán, and two O. Henry Prizes, and have been nominated for the International Booker […]
Student Report on Migratory Ghosts – Poetry Translation Workshop
Report by Rebecca Combs, class of 2025 & Photos by Ruixiang Hu, Class of 2027 On September 20th, 2024, HRC’s Migratory Ghosts reading series welcomed previous DKU Professor and University of Leeds Teaching Fellow Austin Woerner for an interactive discussion and workshopping of Chinese-English poetry translation. About 25 students and 3 faculty members attended the […]
Migratory Ghosts: An Autumn Reading Series – Poetry Translation Workshop
How can we experience poetry? We can read it, we can write it—and if we’re lucky enough to know more than one language, we can translate it! Down through the ages, translating poetry has been a vital source of inspiration for poets and writers, challenging our creativity to convey those messages that seem the most […]
