Literature Program and Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative Present
Literature Program Salon
Monday, November 7, 2022
Olin Language Center, Room 115
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm EST/GMT-5
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Elizabeth Holt, Associate Professor of Arabic,
Co-Director, Middle Eastern Studies, Bard College
Co-Director, Middle Eastern Studies, Bard College
Please join us for another Literature Program Salon where we’ll have the pleasure of discussing current research by Prof. Elizabeth Holt.
When British Petroleum was looking to have their 1955 film The Third River translated into Arabic, they turned to Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, a Palestinian refugee who worked in Baghdad as an editor for the Iraq Petroleum Company's influential in-house industry and culture publications. Better remembered as a novelist, memoirist, painter, and translator of T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland and William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury into Arabic, Jabra also advised the architects of networks of United States Cold War culture projects, such as Franklin Books and the CIA's Congress for Cultural Freedom, with his letters appearing frequently in the CCF's 1950s and 1960s archives. Constellating these sources, the production of a global boom in Faulknerian and Eliotic petro-modernism comes into view, allowing us to see how pipelines and energy infrastructures curate the global canon.
All students interested in Literature are encouraged to attend!
When British Petroleum was looking to have their 1955 film The Third River translated into Arabic, they turned to Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, a Palestinian refugee who worked in Baghdad as an editor for the Iraq Petroleum Company's influential in-house industry and culture publications. Better remembered as a novelist, memoirist, painter, and translator of T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland and William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury into Arabic, Jabra also advised the architects of networks of United States Cold War culture projects, such as Franklin Books and the CIA's Congress for Cultural Freedom, with his letters appearing frequently in the CCF's 1950s and 1960s archives. Constellating these sources, the production of a global boom in Faulknerian and Eliotic petro-modernism comes into view, allowing us to see how pipelines and energy infrastructures curate the global canon.
All students interested in Literature are encouraged to attend!
For more information, call 845-758-7284, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Location: Olin Language Center, Room 115