The MIddle Modernity Colloquium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of English

Organizers: Diego Alegría Corona & Brian Lanahan Milthorpe

Join professors Olivia Loksing Moy (CUNY-English) and Marco Ramírez Rojas (CUNY-Spanish) for a discussion of their ongoing work translating Julio Cortázar’s Imagen de John Keats. This talk invites a reconsideration of translation praxis and methodologies against critical discussions around world literature, moving beyond comparative literature debates and theorizations of cosmopolitanism. Provoking disciplinary reconsiderations of space and time — rather than geography, nation, and period – they engage in a discussion of the global cultural and literary networks of the Cortázar-Keats orbit. Moy and Ramírez invite conversation with graduate students from UW-M’s departments of Spanish and English, while amplifying some of their own methodological choices and models for translation, particularly collaborative translation.