Hi Everyone!
Here is the information about our floor dinner this week:
Tuesday, April 5th at 6:30PM
Dinner with Professor Dennis Washburn
Dennis Washburn is the Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor of Asian Studies at Dartmouth College where he has taught since 1992. He has served as chair of the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures and is currently chair of the Comparative Literature Program. Washburn has published extensively on Japanese literature and culture and is an active translator of both modern and classical Japanese fiction. In 2004 he received the Japanese Foreign Ministry's citation for contributions to cross-cultural understanding, and in 2008 he received the Japan-US Friendship Commission Translation Prize.
Come discuss: Is the study of other languages really necessary anymore? Isn’t it best and more efficient for communication to leave translation to computers?
I hope you can make it - please RSVP and let
me know!
Talk to you soon!
Julia