{"id":582,"date":"2020-11-25T19:44:37","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T00:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/southasiaatub\/?p=582"},"modified":"2020-11-25T19:44:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T00:44:45","slug":"christi-merrill-u-michigan-the-artistry-and-afterlives-of-anti-caste-activism-dec-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/southasiaatub\/2020\/11\/25\/christi-merrill-u-michigan-the-artistry-and-afterlives-of-anti-caste-activism-dec-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Christi Merrill (U Michigan): &#8220;the artistry and afterlives of anti-caste activism&#8221; (Dec. 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/southasiaatub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2020\/11\/Merrill-Translation-Zone-Poster-2020-724x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Christi Merrill December 4 2020 lecture announcement\" class=\"wp-image-583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/southasiaatub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2020\/11\/Merrill-Translation-Zone-Poster-2020-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/southasiaatub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2020\/11\/Merrill-Translation-Zone-Poster-2020-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/southasiaatub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2020\/11\/Merrill-Translation-Zone-Poster-2020-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/southasiaatub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2020\/11\/Merrill-Translation-Zone-Poster-2020-1086x1536.jpg 1086w, https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/southasiaatub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2020\/11\/Merrill-Translation-Zone-Poster-2020-1448x2048.jpg 1448w, https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/southasiaatub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2020\/11\/Merrill-Translation-Zone-Poster-2020-scaled.jpg 1811w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Translation Zone Humanities Institute research workshop is happy to invite you to our end-of-semester talk by Dr. Christi A. Merrill, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, South Asian Literature, and Postcolonial Theory, University of Michigan. The title of her talk is &#8220;<strong>the artistry and afterlives of anti-caste activism<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hour-long event will take place at <strong>4:00 PM on Friday, 4th December, 2020<\/strong>. To join the online event, please visit <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/translationzone\" target=\"_blank\">bit.ly\/translationzone<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a noted translator and anti-caste academic, Dr. Merrill will speak to us about translation practices in Dalit literature, her own translation work and publishing ventures, as well as larger questions concerning the identities of the author, the translator, and the publisher. You can find out more about her prolific body of translation work and teaching\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lsa.umich.edu\/asian\/people\/faculty\/merrillc.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are very excited to be hosting her as part of our workshop and look forward to having you all join us for this talk! Questions may be directed to Shantam Goyal &lt;<a href=\"mailto:shantamg@buffalo.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shantamg@buffalo.edu<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Translation Zone Humanities Institute research workshop is happy to invite you to our end-of-semester talk by Dr. Christi A. Merrill, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, South Asian Literature, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/southasiaatub\/2020\/11\/25\/christi-merrill-u-michigan-the-artistry-and-afterlives-of-anti-caste-activism-dec-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christi Merrill (U Michigan): &#8220;the artistry and afterlives of anti-caste activism&#8221; (Dec. 4)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lectures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/southasiaatub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/southasiaatub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/southasiaatub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/southasiaatub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/southasiaatub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/southasiaatub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/southasiaatub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/southasiaatub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/southasiaatub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/southasiaatub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}