Mixed Metaphors:
Adventures in Translationland
Join History and South Asia Studies for a talk by Daisy Rockwell, "Mixed Metaphors: Adventures in Translationland" at 4:30pm in PNE 239.
Translators love to use metaphors to capture the nature of their work, yet every metaphor seems to fall short, resulting in a great, unusable tangle of mixed metaphors. In this lecture, Daisy Rockwell shares some of her own handcrafted metaphors for translation and explores the many dimensions of the art through her practice of translating literature from Hindi and Urdu.
Daisy Rockwell is an artist, writer, and Hindi-Urdu translator living in Vermont. Her work has been awarded the International Booker Prize, the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, the MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Translation of a Literary Work, the Wisconsin Prize for Poetry in Translation, and the Vani Foundation Distinguished Translator Award. Her translations have been honored with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and PEN Translates. She has written two novels, Taste (2014) and Alice Sees Ghosts (2025), and her memoir Our Friend, Art is forthcoming from Pushkin Press in 2027.
Reception 4:30-5:00pm, Talk 5:00-6:30pm
This lecture is free and open to the public. RSVP requested by 4/1/26
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Parking: The gate to Founders Lot will open at 4:30pm. Public parking is also available in the Davis Parking Facility.