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Day 3: Sunday, October 16th

There are breakout sessions on each day of the Lotsawa Translation Workshop with thematic tracks running across the three days:

Theme A: The Politics of Translation
Theme B: Gender and Genre
Theme C: New Directions

You are welcome to stay with one theme or select across themes.


Schedule of Events

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, Day 3

A3: Translation Fidelity or Intervention—when should translators sanitize misogyny, explain it, reproduce it, or refuse to translate it?

  • John Canti
  • Nancy Lin 
  • Elizabeth Callahan 

B3: Translating Contemporary Women’s Writing

  • Somstobum
  • Dechen Pemba 
  • Chime Lama

C3: Buddhist Tropes of Masculinity 

  • Charlene Makley
  • Kevin Buckelew
  • Joshua Shelton

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