Join us for Together in Translation: Rewriting Virginity in Feminist Solidarity, a talk by Emek Ergun, author and expert in global and women’s and gender studies, in conversation with Berfin Çiçek, University of Washington Near and Middle Eastern Studies doctoral student.
Title: Together in Translation: Rewriting Virginity in Feminist Solidarity
Date: Monday, Jan. 27, 2025
Time: 7-9 p.m.
Location: Husky Union Building Room 250, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195
This event is being held in person. It is free and open to the public.
This talk will explore the political role of translation in facilitating transnational feminist transformations and connectivities by drawing on her reception studies that explored the transatlantic journey of Hanne Blank’s Virgin: The Untouched History – a popular feminist book demystifying the man-made histories of virginity in western geographies – via her Turkish translation.
Emek Ergun is Associate Professor of Global Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at University of North Carolina – Charlotte. Her first single-authored book, Virgin “Crossing Borders: Feminist Resistance and Solidarity in Translation” was published by the University of Illinois Press in 2023. Ergun is also the co-editor of “Feminist Translation Studies: Local and Transnational Perspectives” (Routledge, 2017) and the 5th edition of “Feminist Theory Reader” (Routledge, 2020).
This lecture is in honor of Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi.
Sponsors: The Middle East Center and Translation Studies Hub, funded by The Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, at the University of Washington
