Audio Recordings
The following lists include all recordings that Bread Loaf has permission to post.
2023
6/2/23 – Welcome with Directors Jennifer Grotz and Megan Mayhew Bergman (coming soon)
6/3/23 – Lecture by Matvei Yankelevich, “‘Kyiv’ or ‘Kiev’: Translation and Historical Sense”
6/3/23 – Readings by Mónica de la Torre, Pam Houston, J. Drew Lanham, and Christopher Merrill
6/4/23 – Lecture by Hosam Aboul-Ela, “Translation and Agency: A Biographical Turn?”
6/4/23 – Readings by Jennifer Grotz, Ladee Hubbard, and Joseph O. Legaspi
6/5/23 – Lecture by Padma Viswanathan, “It’s Alive! Translations as Embodied Shadows”
6/5/23 – Readings by Hosam Aboul-Ela, Jennifer Chang, and Carolyn Finney
6/6/23 – Lecture by Geoffrey Brock, “Tuning In: On Retranslating Quotations”
6/6/23 – Readings by Megan Mayhew Bergman, Nathaniel Rich, and Matvei Yankelevich
6/7/23 – Readings by Ramona Ausubel, Geoffrey Brock, and Padma Viswanathan
2022
6/13/22 – Welcome by Jennifer Grotz
6/13/22 – Welcome by Megan Mayhew Bergman
6/14/22 – Lecture by Anton Hur, “Writer-Translators: The Model-Actors of Publishing?”
6/14/22 – Lecture by Madhu H. Kaza, “Lines of Flight: Translating in a Continuous World”
6/16/22 – Readings by Kazim Ali, Peter Constantine, and Elizabeth Rush
6/17/22 – Lecture by Yvette Siegert, “Translating With the Sirens: What Translation Knows”
6/17/22 – Readings by Tarfia Faizullah, Anton Hur, Morgan Jerkins, and Matvei Yankelevich
6/18/22 – Lecture by Peter Constantine, “Wooden Gnomes in Golden Dresses: Translating the Magic of a Dying Language of Greece” (This lecture will not be posted.)
6/18/22 – Readings by Jennifer Grotz, Abe Streep, Pitchaya Sudbanthad, and Kimi Traube
2019
5/31/19 – Welcome by Jennifer Grotz, Megan Mayhew Bergman, and Bill McKibben
6/1/19 – Lecture by Emily Wilson, “Translating the Classics”
6/1/19 – Readings by John Elder, Edward Gauvin, Elisabeth Jaquette, and Claire Vaye Watkins
6/2/19 – Lecture by John Balcom, “On Translating Classical Chinese Fiction: The Case of Dream of the Red Chamber“
6/2/19- Readings by Jennifer Chang, J. Drew Lanham, and Emily Wilson
6/4/19- Lecture by Elisabeth Jaquette, “From Pitching to Publication and Everything in Between”
6/4/19- Readings by John Balcom, Daniel Duane, and Helen Macdonald
6/5/19- Lecture by Edward Guavin, “Translation as Design”
6/5/19- Readings by Megan Mayhew Bergman, Sean Hill, and Suzanne Jill Levine
2018
6/1/18- Welcome by Jennifer Grotz; Reading by Bill Johnston
6/2/18- Lecture by Susan Bernofksy, “Translating in Rhythm, with Gass”
6/2/18- Reading by Emily Wilson, “The Odyssey: A Reading and Discussion”
6/2/18- Readings by Brooks Haxton, Kazim Ali, and Deirdre Heekin
6/3/18- Readings by Ted Genoways, Sora Kim-Russell, and Amber Flora Thomas
6/5/18- Lecture by Sora Kim-Russell, “Queerly Vague or Vaguely Queer”
6/5/18- Readings by Susan Bernofsky, Ginger Strand, and Mónica de la Torre
6/6/18- Readings by Megan Mayhew Bergman, Jennifer Grotz, and Luis Alberto Urrea
2017
6/3/17 – Welcome by Jennifer Grotz; Reading by Suzanne Jill Levine
6/4/17 – Lecture by Idra Novey, “Writing While Translating”
6/4/17 – Readings by Ted Genoways, Maureen Freely, and Robin Wall Kimmerer
6/5/17 – Lecture by Maureen Freely, “Confessions of a Translating Novelist”
6/5/17 – Readings by Megan Mayhew Bergman, Idra Novey, and Joe Wilkins
6/7/17 – Lecture by Suzanne Jill Levine, “Borges on Translation, or the Reader as Writer”
6/7/17 – Readings by Camille T. Dungy and Christopher Merrill
6/8/17 – Lecture by Christopher Merrill, “Corrective Readings: Translation in the Age of Trump”
6/8/17 – Readings by John Elder and Jennifer Grotz
2016
6/3/16 – Welcome by Jennifer Grotz, Reading by Esther Allen
6/4/16 – Readings by Geoffrey Brock and Aimee Nezhukumatathil
6/5/16 – Readings by Belle Boggs, David Hinton, and Rubén Martinez
6/6/16 – Talk by David Hinton, “Wilderness Thought in Ancient Chinese and Modern American Poetry”
6/7/16 – Lecture by Geoffrey Brock, “Case Studies in Imitation”
6/7/16 – Readings by Jane Brox, Karen Emmerich, and Maurice Manning