The Translation Initiative and Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at Yale’s MacMillan Center are pleased to present an upcoming talk by Michael Gordin (History, Princeton University) on
“Scientific Babel and Other Translating Machines”
Michael Gordin is the Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University, where he specializes in the history of modern science and Russian, European, and American history. He has co-edited several volumes and is the author of six monographs. Most of his work concentrates on the boundaries between science in the Slavic world and the West, the history of nuclear weapons, and the history of knowledge on the fringes of science. He is the author, most recently, of Einstein in Bohemia (Princeton, 2020), and Scientific Babel: How Science Was Done Before and After Global English (Chicago, 2015).
Professor Gordin will speak about his recent article, “The Forgetting and Rediscovery of Soviet Machine Translation,” Critical Inquiry 46.4 (Summer 2020), available here: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/709226, as well as his 2015 book Scientific Babel: How Science Was Done Before and After Global English (University of Chicago Press) and more recent research—in conversation with Marijeta Bozovic (Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale).
Register to Attend Virtual Event: http://bit.ly/Translation-SciBabel