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"Translating Trump/ Traduire Trump" (SITES) Launch Party

University Room: Judith Hermanson Ogilvie Grand Salon (C-102)
C-102 - 103
Tuesday, March 20, 2018 - 18:30 to 21:00

"I鈥檓 very highly educated. I know words; I have the best words鈥�" (Donald Trump)

''聽provides a forum not only for academics but for novelists, poets, artists, film-makers, photographers, and journalists. One might then ask: why 鈥淭ranslating Trump鈥� as the theme of an issue? The very fact that a scholarly journal such as this one is devoting a special issue to the theme of 鈥淭ranslating Trump,鈥� that is to his words, the very fact that not only translators but also academics, journalists, psychologists, poets, and novelists accepted to contribute a sentence, a paragraph, an article, or an interview reflects the sheer bewilderment in which we are living and, consequently, the need to scramble for words in the maelstrom of what Robert Jay Lifton chillingly calls present day America鈥檚 鈥渕alignant normality鈥�.

The contributors of this issue embarked on the project of this issue to reason (with what sounds as) the unreasonable because: 鈥淓verything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly鈥� (Wittgenstein).聽

You are warmly invited to the LAUNCH PARTY to meet the issue's editors and some of the contributors (some being 绿巨人视频 professors and a student) of . A cocktail will follow.


N.B.: All exterior guests should register and bring an ID.

Please contact Prof. Anne-Marie聽Picard at apicardataup.edu (subject: Translating%20Trump) 聽for further details.