FREE EVENT UA POETRY CENTERDOROTHY RUBEL ROOMHelen S. Schaefer Building, 1508 E. Helen St.

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Advance your human conversations. What can we discover about ourselves by decoding the past through film, literature, and music? In this week-long series hosted by the UA College of Humanities, you will explore contrasting cultures, international languages, and divergent ideas at the heart of what makes us human.

HUMANITIES WEEK 2015 is a series of FREE public lectures and events on the University of Arizona campus presented by the College of Humanities.

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MAN VS. MACHINE:Translation in the Digital Age

Advances in machine translation over the past 25 years have led us to wonder whether, in the digital age, the role of human effort in translating meanings from one language to the next may be diminishing.

Whether out of pride or fear, working translators often insist that human beings, because of our cultural attunement and emotional subtleties, translate better than machines do, and always will. However, in an era of unprecedented and complex migration and mobility, more and more institutions and corporations are finding it practical to outsource translation and interpreting services to off-site, multilingual platforms, in order to ensure the quick and easy flow of goods and services in transnational markets. Given such a persistent human desire to translate, and to translate well, Gramling’s talk explores what this development ultimately may mean for the human condition in the 21st century.

WEDNESDAY

Presented by:

David Gramling Assistant Professor

GERMAN STUDIES

OCT 7 @ 5:00 PM