Lexicons of Migration: Histories, Texts, and Human Lives in Translation

View the Lexicon of Migration program booklet
View the Lexicons of Migration Program Booklet

Lexicons of Migration: Histories, Texts, and Human Lives in Translation

Schedule of Events

Friday, November 4

8:00-9:00 pm | A Life in Translation鈥 Public Interview with Ros Schwartz, led by Marguerite Feitlowitz
Deane Carriage Barn

9:00-10:00 pm | Rebetiko: Songs of a Greek Subculture featuring The Bennington Rebetiko Ensemble
Deane Carriage Barn

Joseph Alpar, Director, percussion, kanun, santouri
Tristan Archibald, violin, vocals
Tallulah Brown, vocals
Garrett Crusan, piano, drums, vocals
Ivy Dunn-Fyler, vocals, guitar
Isaac Euler, vocals, percussion, dance
Senneth Hartvigsen, vocals, guitar
Marlon Hope, mandolin, vocals
Greta Jensen, vocals
Ethan Kelley, clarinet
John Kirk, fiddle, mandolin
Milo Lis, vocals, piano
Nathaniel Parke, cello
Nicholas Pertz Kelley, electric bass, vocals
Kai Schaffer, guitar, percussion
Louis Searles, percussion, mallet percussion
Marta Scharbakova, vocals
Oliver Wessels, saxophone


Saturday, November 5

9:30-10:45 am | 鈥淣ew York: The Most Linguistially Diverse City in the History of the World鈥 with Ross Perlin and Mariam Ghani
CAPA Symposium

11:00 am-12:30 pm | 鈥淭ranslating Ukrainian Literature in the Shadow of War鈥 with Alexandar Mihailovic (Moderator), Vitaly Chernetsky, Amelia Glaser, Katherine E. Young
CAPA Symposium

12:30-1:40 pm | Buffet Lunch
CAPA Gallery

1:45-2:50 pm | 鈥淐ontemporary International Writing in Arabic鈥 with Osama Alomar, Sawad Hussain, Thomas Leddy-Cecere (discussant)
CAPA Symposium

3:00-4:30 pm | 鈥淏lack Italy: Translating Blackness, Considering Gender鈥 withBarbara Ofosu-Somuah and Candice Whitney
CAPA Symposium

4:30-5:45 pm | 鈥淢usic as Translation: From the Sacred to the Political鈥
CAPA Symposium

  • Joseph Alpar: 鈥淢usical Adjustment, Language, and Religious Propriety in Turkish H蹋azzanut鈥
  • Maria Sonevytsky:鈥淚nstrumentalizing the Politics of Aesthetics in a Time of War: Ukrainian Popular Musicians at the Cultural Front鈥

8:15-9:30 pm |  Poetry Readings: Osama Alomar and T. Uray谩on Noel
Deane Carriage Barn

Sunday, November 6

9:30-10:45 am | 鈥淏uilding Community Around/With Translation鈥 with Aron Aji, Hanna Leliv, Katherine E. Young
CAPA Symposium

11:00 am-12:30 pm | Film Screening: The Bridge, Laura Kunreuther
CAPA Symposium

12:35-1:25 pm | Buffet Lunch
CAPA Gallery

1:30-3:30 pm | 鈥淪tudents Voicing Collective Action鈥
The Symposium (Breakout Groups in CAPA Design Labs)
Undergraduate writers and artists, editors and producers, activists and researchers gather to share work and explore future possibilities for collaboration. 

Confirmed Participants:

  • Literary/Arts Magazines, Websites, Intitiatives
  • (M)othertongues (Bennington)
  • Sui Generus (Bard)
  • GANAS (Bennington)
  • Sarah Lawrence Refugee Project
  • Afghan Refugee Resettlement Project (Bennington)
  • ScholarshipBard Translation & Translatability Program
  • Bennington Translates (Individual students presenting works-in-progress)

All Students Welcome!
You need not be a member of a project to attend.