It is a pleasure to welcome you to the electronic pages of the inaugural issue of the IWL Newsletter. This newsletter represents the latest stage in the unfolding work of the Institute, and is intended to increase the impact and cyber-outreach of our sessions held in earthly space and time.
In these pages, you’ll find Susan Bassnett’s wonderfully acute and engaging keynote speech from our 2013 session at Harvard, in which she traces the growth of translation studies over the past several decades and the increasing interlinking of the long separate fields of translation studies and comparative literature, brought together with new seriousness in our globalizing era. In addition, we have a very informative interview conducted by our Assistant Director Delia Ungureanu with Ellen Elias-Bursac, a leading independent literary translator and a participant in last summer’s session. Also included are reports from two of the sessions Affinity Groups and overall reactions to the session from one of our seminar leaders, Djelal Kadir, and from several of our participants. Taken together, these items give a vivid series of snapshots – illustrated with actual snapshots as well – of the session’s work.
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