Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize
Following on the last post about December being a month of year-end donations, it’s also a month of submitting applications and books for a variety of awards. So here’s the first of three posts about various book prizes: On behalf of the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture at Columbia University, I am ...
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Metaphysics of Literary Production and the Death of Publishing
Richard Nash is teaching a class with the above title at Columbia this spring. Sounds really interesting: Forty years ago Roland Barthes announced the “Death of the Author,” yet not only are there more authors than ever, but more with more blogs, websites, and YouTube trailers. Now, it is the “Death of ...
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National Grad Student Translation Conference
Since I referenced this earlier, and since it’s just a few weeks away, I feel like I should post some information about the National Grad Student Translation Conference that the Center for Literary Translation at Columbia University will be hosting From March 28th through the 30th. As stated in this press release this ...
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