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Asia @ Noon Lecture Series

Asia@Noon talks are held many Fridays throughout the academic year held in various rooms across North Campus. The presenter usually speaks for about 45 minutes, with time for discussion at the end of each talk. Undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and people from the Buffalo community are invited and encouraged to attend. If you are a scholar of Asia-related research, we invite you to contact us about speaking at Asia@Noon.

2024-25 Events

The Work of Literary Translation in the Age of Digital Computability or, How I Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love Google Translate

Steven Yao, PhD
Edmund A. LeFevre Professor of English, Hamilton College

Date: November 21, 2024
Time: 3 p.m.
Location: Poetry Collection, 420 Capen Hall

Steven Yao is the author of two influential books: "Translation and the Languages of Modernism" (Palgrave/St. Martins, 2002) and "Foreign Accents: Chinese American Verse from Exclusion to Postethnicity" (Oxford, 2010), the latter of which received the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award in Literary Studies. He has also co-edited "Sinographies: Writing China" (Minnesota, 2008), "Pacific Rim Modernisms" (Toronto, 2009), and "Ezra Pound and Education" (2012).

Yao’s contributions to scholarship have been recognized with numerous honors, including an ACE Fellowship for the 2012-13 academic year and a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies in 2005. He holds a PhD in English from the University of California, Berkeley.

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