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SUMMARY: Ziegler Lecture: Dr. Jon Cho-Polizzi\, “Translating Ada’s Realm“
DESCRIPTION: Join us on September 27 at 12:30 pm for the virtual Ziegler Le
 cture Series\, featuring Dr. Jon Cho-Polizzi of the University of Michigan.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p>Join us on September 27 at 12:30 pm Pacifi
 c Time for the virtual Ziegler Lecture Series\, featuring Dr. Jon Cho-Poliz
 zi of the University of Michigan.</p><p>View the recording of this talk her
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 <p><strong>Title:</strong> "Translating <em>Ada’s Realm</em>: A Translators
 ’ Chat with Jon Cho-Polizzi\, translator of Sharon Dodua Otoo’s <em>Adas Ra
 um</em>"</p><p><strong>Abstract:</strong> Sharon Dodua Otoo’s debut novel <
 em>Ada’s Realm</em> (German: <em>Adas Raum</em>) is a tour de force of West
  African history\, Black German identity\, Holocaust memory\, and contempor
 ary decolonial cosmologies. Winner of the prestigious Ingeborg Bachmann Pri
 ze in 2016\, Otoo (b. 1972 in London) rose to fame as an additional-languag
 e writer of German\, coming from a Black British intellectual and social fo
 rmation.</p><p><strong><img class="alignleft wp-image-19539 size-thumbnail"
  src="https://cene.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2022/09/ChoP
 olizzi-150x150.png" alt="" width="150" height="150" />Bio:</strong> Jon Cho
 -Polizzi is a literary translator and Assistant Professor of German at the 
 University of Michigan who will share experiences rendering Otoo’s novel in
 to English(es) for a broader reading public. The English translations debut
  in Spring 2023\, so this talk is a sneak peek! Translators\, creative writ
 ers\, activists\, German learners\, please join! Note also that this novel-
 and-translation will serve as the core text for UBC CENES’s Professor David
  Gramling’s Translation Seminar (GERM 325) in Spring Term 2023.</p>
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