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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Diving Into the Lake: On the Necessity\, Joy\, and Anxiety of (Re)Translating Tulsidas’s Rāmcaritmānas
DESCRIPTION:The epic retelling of the Rāmāyaṇa\, composed in ca. 1574 CE by the saintly poet Tulsidas\, in the dialect of Hindi known as Avadhi\, has long been considered one of the most sacred and beloved texts of the North Indian Hindu tradition. It has also\, through ten complete English renderings\, become one of the most translated works of premodern Indian vernacular literature. In this talk\, Philip Lutgendorf will first briefly introduce the epic and some of its notable features as a work in the larger “Rāmāyaṇa tradition\,” which has its locus classicus in the Sanskrit epic attributed to the sage Valmiki (ca. 3rd century BCE?). He will then reflect on the difficulties that the text presents for the translator into English\, discuss why he is offering a new translation at this time\, and share some examples of his approach. \nPhilip Lutgendorf is Professor Emeritus of Hindi and Modern Indian Studies at the University of Iowa. His research focuses on written and oral narrative traditions of South Asia and on Indian film. He served as President of the American Institute of Indian Studies (2010–2018) and currently chairs its Board of Trustees. His publications include The Life of a Text Performing the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas (1991); Hanuman’s Tale\, The Messages of a Divine Monkey (2007); and The Epic of Ram\, a seven-volume edition and translation of the Rāmcaritmānas for the Murty Classical Library of India (2016–2023). \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/diving-into-the-lake-on-the-necessity-joy-and-anxiety-of-retranslating-tulsidass-ramcaritmanas/
LOCATION:4080 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,South Asian Religions and Cultures
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Are the Chornobyl Books Nature-Oriented?: Ukrainian Children’s Literature in Memory Dimensions
DESCRIPTION:The war in Ukraine raises the issue of a new nuclear threat\, as five nuclear power plants are located there. Although the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the north of Ukraine is non-functional\, the level of radiation is still very high. Moreover\, the largest nuclear plant in Europe\, the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in the south of Ukraine\, is threatened with a new nuclear catastrophe and radiation pollution since the Russian military invasion (Joint Statement 2022). Ukrainians know what “nuclear pollution”\, “ecological genocide”\, and “eco-memory” mean because of the Chornobyl accident\, the great catastrophe which occurred in 1986 near Kyiv\, the Ukrainian capital. In honor of this infamous event\, Ukraine annually celebrates The Chornobyl Disaster Remembrance Day on April 26. This cultural memory is embodied in Ukrainian children’s literature as well as in a cartoon and computer game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Ukrainian children’s literature on the Chornobyl issue covers different genres\, such as short novels\, novels\, eco-comics\, and picturebooks. This talk assumes that literature recalls human and nonhuman interactions through cultural memory and eco-memory. Analyzing the Ukrainian children’s literature on Chornobyl issues\, it aims to show that this literature is nature-oriented within memory studies. To test this hypothesis\, Maryna Vardanian will discuss the following questions: How do nature-oriented writings interact with memory studies? What is the presence of the nonhuman environment in the human environment\, in particular in Yevhen Hutsalo’s Children of Chornobyl (1995) and Sasha Kochubei’s Mistress of the Forest (2016)? How does the changed Chornobyl nonhuman environment interact with the human one (in the case of Anatolii Andrzhevskyi’s Chornobyl Dog Axel (2019) and Bohdan Krasavtsev’s Chornobyl Oasis (2021))? What is the ethical orientation towards the environment of picturebooks such as Kateryna Mikhalitsyna’s The Flowers beside the Fourth Reactor (2020)\, Kateryna Mikhalitsyna & Stanislav Dvornytskyi’s Reactors Do not Explode. A Brief History of the Chornobyl Disaster (2020)\, and Kirill Stepanets’ et al. Interesting Chornobyl. 100 Symbols (2022)? \nDr. Maryna Vardanian is a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Translating and Interpreting\, Heidelberg University (Germany). She teaches Children’s Literature\, Translation Studies\, and Comparative Literature courses as a Professor of the Department of Translation and Slavic Studies at the Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University (Ukraine). Her major research interests are Ukrainian diasporic and contemporary children and YA literature\, cultural memory\, and ecocriticism. Her current research project examines cultural and ideological approaches in the translation of children’s literature. She is a member of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature and a member of the editorial board of journals and program committees’ member. \nZoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Ecologies Research Focus Group and the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/are-the-chornobyl-books-nature-oriented-ukrainian-childrens-literature-in-memory-dimensions/
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CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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SUMMARY:Love and Information
DESCRIPTION:Isla Vista Arts and Not Necessarily Shakespeare in the Park present “Love and Information\,” a play by Caryl Churchill and directed by Jake Marshall\, Nicole Hearfield\, Logan Null\, Tori Kostic\, Maylin De Leon\, and Benjamin Atticus Scapellati\, in which over a hundred characters try to understand meaning and human connection in a world with too much information. \nShowtimes are on June 9 at 7 PM and June 10 at 2 PM and 7 PM; admission is free.
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/love-and-information/
LOCATION:Isla Vista Community Center\, 976 Embarcadero del Mar\, Isla Vista\, CA\, 93117
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Sub-Units
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