‘Blackness’ in Trans(Re)lationProfessor Glover will reflect on the specific stakes of translating works by “Black" francophone authors into the Anglosphere. Thinking with a constellation of francophone and anglophone intellectuals and creative actors – from Haitian writers Frankétienne and René Depestre, to “Black” French thinkers Maboula Soumahoro and Edouard Glissant, and Black American theorists Brent Hayes Edwards and John Keene – she proposes the notion of trans(Re)lation as a usefully...

Join curator Rich Dana for a special guided tour of the current Main Library Gallery exhibition, A Roll of the Dice: Symbolism in the Sackner Archive. All are welcome to attend this free event. About the exhibit:   In 1897, French Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé revolutionized the world of graphic design with a single poem that forever changed the way we look at words. His work illustrated how text conveys meaning not only through words, but also as visual symbols that contain a deeper...

Join the University of Iowa Libraries and the Department of French and Italian for a special event celebrating the impact of French Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé.   Experience his groundbreaking poem “Un Coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard (A Roll of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance)” read in both French and English by Rosemarie Scullion and Emily Wieder. Then, learn more through a lecture by Roxanna Curto about Mallarmé’s trajectory from a writer of structured poems influenced by...

Join curator Rich Dana for a special guided tour of the current Main Library Gallery exhibition, A Roll of the Dice: Symbolism in the Sackner Archive. All are welcome to attend this free event. About the exhibit:   In 1897, French Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé revolutionized the world of graphic design with a single poem that forever changed the way we look at words. His work illustrated how text conveys meaning not only through words, but also as visual symbols that contain a deeper...