The Dynamic Translation Lab presents the inaugural Notre Dame Translation Forum. Hosted by Clíona Ní Ríordáin and Johannes Göransson, the forum will consist of translators from all across Notre Dame's campus. One of the aims of the forum is to create a translation community, bringing together people from different backgrounds and disciplines.
Special guest Damion Searls will be joining to speak about his book The Philosophy of Translation.
Damion Searls has translated books by Nobel Prize winners Thomas Mann, Elfriede Jelinek, Hermann Hesse, Gide, Modiano, and Jon Fosse, as well as many other classic modern writers: Proust, Rilke, Nietzsche, Bachmann, Döblin, Robert Walser, Christa Wolf, Victoria Kielland, and Nescio. He has edited a one-volume abridgment of Henry David Thoreau’s Journal and produced a lost work of Hermann Melville’s; published criticism (Harper’s, Bookforum, New Republic), essays (Time, n+1, The Atlantic, The Believer), and poetry (Paris Review, New York Review of Books); and taught at universities (Princeton, Harvard, Wesleyan, Iowa Writers Program) and other venues (NYC Center for Fiction, 92nd St. Y, Naropa). His own books include What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going (stories), The Inkblots (a history of the Rorschach Test and biography of its creator, Hermann Rorschach, which has been translated into ten languages), and The Philosophy of Translation.