From Here to There is the newsletter of the International Center for Writing and Translation, and is published bi-annually. Our archive of past issues can be found at http://www.humanities.uci.edu/icwt/about/about.php.


Special thanks to our guest contributors for this issue: Jonathan Alexander, Alina Avelar, Gail K. Hart, Christina Kapucija, Sukeinah Kassir, Angela Koh, Serk Bae Suh, Ken Yoshida, and the UCI Bookstore

Additional thanks to Pauline Malefane and Cornelius Eady

Thanh Tam Orphanage photos courtesy of Andy An Hoang
Antje Ravic Strubel/Zaia Alexander photos courtesy of the UCI Department of German
David Mura/Wendy Lee Reading photos courtesy of Linda Vo and the UCI Department of Asian American Studies
Korean Literature Bilingual Reading photos courtesy of the UCI Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
Future of Writing Conference photos courtesy of Maritess Santiago and HumaniTech
Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop Reading Photo Credit: Kathryn L. Wong



FROM OUR MISSION STATEMENT:
The International Center for Writing and Translation in the School of Humanities fosters writing, translation, and criticism in multilingual and international contexts. The Center possesses an international scope, a focus that champions writing, and an earnest exploration of translation as a challenge and practice. It links existing faculty research interests in cultural literacy to general discussions about linguistic and cultural issues relevant to the diverse, multiethnic and multilinguistic student population at UCI and to the population of California more generally. Through its support of writers, critics, and translators, the Center cultivates an awareness of the international world of letters and steers research and creative activities in the Humanities in vital, new directions.

To learn more about the ICWT or to read previous issues of From Here to There, please visit our main site at http://www.humanities.uci.edu/icwt.

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ICWT STAFF
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Director
Colette LaBouff Atkinson, Associate Director
Lynh Tran, Manager

2008-09 Undergraduate Interns
Alina Avelar
Sukeinah Kassir
Angela Koh

2008-09 EXECUTIVE BOARD:
Manthia Diawara, Professor, Comparative Literature & Director, Africana Studies, New York University
Dilek Dizdar, Translator and Professor, Bogaziçi University & Universität Mainz
Bei Ling Huang, Founder and Executive Director, Independent, Chinese PEN Center
Karen Lawrence, ex officio, President, Sarah Lawrence College
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Dept. of Languages & Culture, University of Roskilde & Dept. of Education, Åbo Akademi University
Wole Soyinka, ex officio, Nobel Laureate, Director, Literary Arts, International Institute of Modern Letters
Elias Ghanem Chair in Creative Writing,University of Nevada Las Vegas
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, ex officio, Distinguished Professor, English & Comparative Literature, Director, International Center for Writing and Translation, University of California, Irvine
Lawrence Venuti, English Department, Temple University
Michael Wood, Charles Barnwell Straut Professor of English & Chair, Department of English, Princeton University

2008-09 ADVISORY COMMITTEE:
Anke Biendarra, Department of German
Carol Burke, Department of English
David Theo Goldberg, UC Humanities Research Institute, Department of African American Studies
Adriana Johnson, Department of Comparative Literature
Ketu Katrak, Department of Asian American Studies
Catherine Liu, Department of Film and Media Studies, Director, Humanities Center
Rodrigo Lazo, Department of English
J. Hillis Miller, Departments of English and Comparative Literature
Laura O'Connor, Department of English
Rachel O'Toole, Department of History
Maria Pantelia, Department of Classics, Director, Thesaurus Linguae Gracae
Fatimah Tobing Rony, Department of Film and Media Studies
Jacobo Sefami, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Serk Bae Suh, Department of East Asian Languages and Literature
Frank B. Wilderson, III, Department of Drama and Program in African American Studies



Comments and questions are welcomed.

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