INCOGNEGRO: A MEMOIR OF EXILE AND APARTHEID (South End Press, 2008), by Frank B. Wilderson, III, was named the winner of the 2008 American Book Award, bestowed by the Before Columbus Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in 1976 to be "a multi-ethnic organizing dedicated to promoting a pan-cultural view of America," especially through the promotion of multicultural writers. Past winners include Toni Morrison, Eduardo Galeano, and Audre Lorde. Wilderson teaches in the Department of Drama and the Program in African Studies at UCI, and serves as a member of the ICWT Advisory Committee.
ICWT EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBER LAWRENCE VENUTI was awarded the 2008 Robert Fagles Translation Prize, it has been reported, by The Words Without Borders Blog. This award from The National Poetry Series is given annually to a translator who has shown exceptional skill in translating a book of contemporary poetry into English. Venuti, Professor of English at Temple University, was recognized for his translation of the Catalan poet Ermest Farres's Edward Hopper. Click here for more from WWB editor Susan Harris.
U-Carmen Film Screening
October 3, 2008
Black Writers Series Inaugural Reading
featuring poet Cornelius Eady
November 17, 2008
CONFERENCES
November 2008 | (1) "The Future of Writing" Conference, part of the 2008-09 HumaniTech Lecture Series;
(2) "Indo-Muslim Cultures in Transition"
January 2009 | "Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism in Africa" hosted by the UCI Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies and the James S. Coleman Center for African Studies at UCLA
February 2009 | "Points of Departure," a conference on political theology
April 2009 | "Politics of Crisis,"the 4th annual Comparative Literature graduate conference
TALKS, SYMPOSIA, READINGS, WORKSHOPS
October 2008 | (1) Readings by Asian American writers David Mura and Wendy Lee; (2) Bilingual reading of Korean literature with authors Kim Aeran and Lee Hye-kyung and translator Bruce Fulton; (3) Reading and a conversation on translation with German novelist Antje Ravic Strubel and her English translator, Zaia Alexander
March 2009 | (1) "Critical and Intercultural Pedagogy and Language Pedagogy" Symposium; (2) Talk by critic-scholar Irving Wohlfarth
April 2009 | (1) Asian Visual Cultures Workshop for UCI graduate students
Misc | (1) Southern California Irish Studies Colloquium; (2) UC African Studies Multicampus Research Group
PUBLICATIONS
(1) 2008-09 issue of Faultline, UCI's journal of art and literature; (2) Octopus, Volume 4, journal of the UCI PhD program in Visual Studies
Fall 2008
Translation Grants | Support for translations of literature (fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and drama) or theory into English. The ICWT is particularly interested in translations from cultures and languages that have been marginalized and overlooked by the Anglo-American canon.
Call posted currently open -- Deadline: Monday, January 5, 2009 (postmark)
Click here for proposal guidelines
UCI Faculty Associate Grants | Funding for UCI faculty working on research related to translation and its cultural implications.
Call distributed mid-September
Spring 2009
UCI Graduate Student Summer International Travel Grants | Support for UCI Humanities graduate students pursuing research and creative writing projects that require international travel.
Call distributed early March
FOR MORE INFORMATION on the grants listed above and other types of ICWT funding available, please visit our Stipends & Fellowships page on our ICWT site at http://www.humanities.uci.edu/icwt/stipends/stipends.php.
