Jed Deppman Translation Symposium: Keynote Address by Yasmine Seale

Inaugurated in 2002 by the late Professor Jed Deppman, the Jed Deppman Translation Symposium is a fast-paced, multilingual event that celebrates literary translation and showcases our students’ linguistic, intellectual, and creative talents as literary translators. The Symposium consists of two events: a student reading (on April 16) and a keynote address by a renowned literary translator. This year’s keynote speaker is poet, translator, and critic Yasmine Seale, whose translations from Arabic include The Annotated Arabian Nights — the first translation of the Nights into English by a woman — and Something Evergreen Called Life, a collection of poems by the Sudanese writer and activist Rania Mamoun. Seale's keynote address is titled "Let It Be Too Much: Grief in Translation."

Open to the Oberlin campus community