RECENT NEWS AND PRESS RELEASES

May 24, 2010

ECLA Choir Sings

The mixed student-faculty ECLA Choir, led by their director Yvonne Frazier, performed at St. Maria Magdalena Church... more
February 11, 2010

Carl Henrik Fredriksson

State of the World Week hosted a new guest: Carl Henrik Fredriksson came from Vienna to speak about the translator’s political and cultural context.... more
February 10, 2010

Translating Philosophy

On Wednesday the 10th February a group of students and visitors gathered for a seminar, as part of the State of the World Week... more


DAVID LEVINE TO PRESENT A WORKSHOP OF HIS PROJECT, HABIT, SATURDAY, MAY 1
April 29, 2010
Press Release

In residence at the Watermill Center, the New York-born, Berlin-based artist David Levine is developing Habit, a production co-commissioned by another prestigious champion of new works for performance, Toronto’s Luminato Festival more

Translating Terror
February 28, 2010
Diana Martin (AY '10, Romania)

In 1966, Romania’s dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu issued the 770 Decree, and with it an entire generation came into being; a generation subsumed under the derisory name of “The Decree Generation”. The general prohibition of abortion, along with the lack of availability of contraception more

The Novel in New Lands. Bruno Macaes’ SWWE Seminar
February 27, 2010
María Cruz (AY '10, Argentina)
The end of the State of the World Week brought us Bruno Macaes’ seminar “The Novel in New Lands,” analyzing the topic of cultural exchange by looking at a particular cultural referent: how national heritage and habits in literary production remain sovereign more