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Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montreal / Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires en études montréalaises, 3438 McTavish Street, Montreal, QC
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Join author Sherry Simon in Montreal for a luncheon talk on her book, Speaking Memory: How Translation Shapes City Life.
The event will be held in Room 103 at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montreal / Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires en études montréalaises.
Speaking Memory evokes the complex "language-scapes" that form at the crossroads of culture and history in cities. While engaging with current debates on the nature and role of translation in globalized urban landscapes, the contributors offer a series of detailed and nuanced readings of “translational” cities - their histories, their construction and transformation in memory, and the artistic projects that tell their stories. Defining cities as fields of translational forces where languages are both in conversation and in tension, translation in Speaking Memory is stretched beyond its usual confines, encompassing literary, artistic, and cultural practices that permeate everyday contemporary life.
Sherry Simon is professor in the French Department at Concordia University and the author of Translating Montreal: Episodes in the Life of a Divided City.