WiP TalksSubmitted by xiazhao on Fri, 01/06/2012 - 20:43.
Friday, 13 January Nicholas Žekulin Vicissitudes of a SSHRCC Grant: Turgenev as Translator III This talk will demonstrate the current status of my SSHRCC SRG on collecting, and making available on-line, translations in which Ivan Turgenev was involved, ranging from student translations (into German) from Latin and Greek to translations of his own works into French and German. The talk will examine practical and technical issues and solutions, will identify changes that were required from original intentions, as well as principles that have been confirmed. It will conclude with a “what now?” section on possible applications: potential insights into Turgenev as a result of adding translations to his known œuvre. Location : Taylor Family Digital Library 520D Time: 3:00-4:00 pm Yoko Riley’s Last Day of ClassesSubmitted by xiazhao on Fri, 01/06/2012 - 22:20.
Yoko Riley began teaching at the University of Calgary on September 1, 1990 as a part-time sessional instructor. She was promoted to Instructor I in 1997, to Instructor II in 2000, and to Senior Instructor in 2007. In her long career at the UofC she inspired countless students to study Japanese language, culture, literature and film. Her efforts contributed substantially to the success and reputation our Japanese program enjoys today. On December 9, 2011 she taught her last class and was surprised by students and colleagues with an impromptu party. Happy retirement, Yoko!
| Faculty of Arts Distinguished Research AwardSubmitted by xiazhao on Fri, 01/06/2012 - 22:27.
Congratulations to Michael T. Taylor! Calgary Literary Kaleidoscope Society AwardSubmitted by xiazhao on Fri, 01/06/2012 - 22:34.
The Calgary Literary Kaleidoscope Society is a group of avid readers who gather together to read and to engage in literary discussions. They typically invite authors and speakers to give lectures at their meetings. The Literary Kaleidoscope Prize is awarded to four individuals each year (two graduate, and two undergraduate) based on an essay or creative piece. |
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Submitted by xiazhao on Fri, 01/06/2012 - 20:39.
Together with Annette F. Timm (History), Michael Thomas Taylor was recently selected for a Faculty of Arts Distinguished Research Award for the Exhibition and International Conference PopSex! Drs. Timm and Taylor shared one of four awards given to faculty members. The award recognized the conference and exhibition PopSex!, which examined the history of sexuality through a combination of archival material and contemporary art. PopSex! was held at the Illingworth Kerr Gallery in co-operation with the Alberta College of Art + Design in January 2011 and received national and international press attention. For more documentation and images (accessible to anyone), see 
GSEA is thrilled to announce that Melissa McGregor, double major in Russian and English, was awarded the Kaleidoscope 2011 prize for her undergraduate Honours thesis, a fifty-page essay entitled "Playing in the Graveyard: Subjective Possibility and the Abject Body." Her essay examined the ways in which the language of Western ontology constructs and limits subjective possibility for the embodied female. That is, how the language that is available to women to express their experience of embodiment actually restricts their subjective freedom. The essay explored the possibilities for escaping such traps by applying post-structuralist theory to creative work by two contemporary Canadian authors (Ibi Kaslik and Lisa Foad). Kaslik's novel, Skinny, deals with the anorexic body, and the short story by Foad, Violent Collections, Anxious Supplements plays with representations of the eroticized female body.