Translation, Language Experimentation, and Language Justice: A Conversation with Jen Hofer and John Pluecker 2015.11.02

Non-CAS Event

Monday, November 2, 2015, 4:30-6:30 p.m.
McKenna 112, CU-Boulder

You are invited to a discussion about translation, language experimentation, and language justice with writers, literary translators, and interpreters Jen Hofer and John Pluecker.

In 2012, Hofer was awarded the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, and she has translated six books of Mexican literature from Spanish into English. Pluecker’s translations have been published by Grove, Palgrave, Duke University Press, and Arte Público Press, the oldest press for Latino literature in the US. 

In 2010, Hofer and Pluecker founded Antena (http://antenaantena.org/), a collective dedicated to language justice and language experimentation. Antena activates links between social justice work and artistic practice by exploring how critical views on language can contribute to a reimagining and rearticulation of the worlds we inhabit. Antena works with organizations, communities, and individuals to create multilingual spaces for small and large groups of people to foster open communication and attentive listening across languages and cultures. Antena has exhibited, published, performed, organized, advocated, translated, curated, interpreted, and/or instigated with, among others: &Now Festival, Blaffer Art Museum, Clockshop, CounterCurrent Festival, Democracy Now!, Fe y Justicia Workers’ Center, Floor Journal, Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics, La Colmena Domestic Workers’ Collective, National Immigration Law Center, Project Row Houses, Project South, The Capilano Review, and The Caravan for Peace with Justice and Dignity.  

Questions? Contact Patrick.Greaney@colorado.edu

Sponsored by the Center for Western Civilization, the Department of English, and the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures