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Workshop Venue & Program

 

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Venue: Norris University Center

Venue: Norris University Center

The Lotsawa Translation Workshop will begin with a welcome reception on the evening of Thursday, October 13th and end with a closing address and lunch on Sunday, October 16th. The program from Friday through Sunday will take place at the Norris University Center on Northwestern University’s main campus in Evanston, IL. Breakfast and evening events will take place at the Hyatt Hotel in Evanston.

Click here for a list of restaurants within walking distance of the Hyatt House.

Schedule

Thursday, October 13th

5:00-5:30pm Registration 

5:00pm-6:30pm Welcome reception

6:30pm-7:30pm Opening Dialogue: Tenzin Dickie & Sarah Harding

Friday, October 14th

8:30-9:00am Bagels and coffee

9:00-10:30am Panel #1: བོད་ཀྱི་ནང་བསྟན་རྩོམ་རིག་ཁྲོད་ཀྱི་སྐྱེས་ཆེན་མའི་རྣམ་ཐར་དང་གསུང་ཆོས་ཡིག་སྒྱུར་གྱི་ཐད་ལ་བསམ་གཞིགས་བྱེད་པ། “Reflections on Translating Women’s Lives and Teachings in the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition”

10:30-11:00am Tea break

11:00-12:30pm Breakout groups (3 options, see below)

12:30-2:00pm Lunch (at Norris food court)

2:00-3:30pm Workshops session #1

3:30-4:00pm Tea break

4:00-5:30pm Workshops session #2

7:00pm Evening event: Dinner & Readings by Tibetan Authors (please RSVP for this event with the Tibetan Alliance of Chicago in Evanston)

Saturday, October 15th

8:30-9:00am Bagels and coffee

9:00-10:30am Keynote Address: Luise von Flotow, “Feminist Translation and Translation Studies: in Flux toward the Transnational”

10:30-11:00am Tea break

11:00-12:30pm Breakout groups (3 options)

12:30-2:00pm Lunch (at Norris food court)

2:00-3:30pm Workshops session #3

3:30-4:00pm Tea break

4:00-5:30pm Translating the Khandro Chödzö Chenmo: A Conversation

8:30pm Tibetan Buddhist Resource Share (Hyatt House Evanston, Upper Floor)

Sunday, October 16th

8:30-9:00am Bagels and coffee

9:00-10:30am Panel #2: བོད་དང་ཧི་མ་ཡ་ལའི་སྐྱེས་མ་རྩོམ་པ་པོས་རྩོམ་རིག་དང་རྩོམ་འབྲིའི་ཉམས་མྱོང་བརྗོད་པ།  “Literary Perspectives from Tibetan and Himalayan Women Writers”

10:30-11:00am Tea break

11:00-12:30pm Breakout groups (3 options)

12:30-2:00pm Lunch and Closing Remarks

Breakout Groups