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The Paula Berggren Enrichment Fund

Posted on September 17, 2015 by iwang

This new fund, created by a generous donor, has two main purposes: to assist students who wish to enroll in courses in the humanities* at Baruch but lack the financial means to do so; and to enable classes in the humanities at Baruch to participate in extra-curricular activities that enrich students’ intellectual experience and understanding of their coursework.

Funds are allocated by a committee lodged in the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences that meets several times a year to review applications (see attached) by members of the Baruch community. Student applications for tuition support in the fall or spring semester should be made as early as possible in the registration process, preferably before the due date for tuition payment. Applications from faculty for course activity support should be made as early as possible, but worthy applications will be accepted until the last month of the semester in question.

Members of the committee for the academic year 2015-16 are Paula Berggren, Professor Emeritus of English; Susan Tenneriello, Associate Professor of Theater; and Boo Choi, Director of Administrative and Financial Services for the Weissman School.

Student grants will be credited directly to the Bursar to cover the funded cost of tuition, not to exceed $750. Funding for extra-curricular class activities will cover visits to museums, theaters, concerts, or other approved events; students will be expected to contribute a modest sum toward the costs of admission. Funding does not cover transportation or food and will be capped at approximately $40 per student.

*“The term ‘humanities’ includes, but is not limited to, the study and interpretation of the following: language, both modern and classical; linguistics; literature; history; jurisprudence; philosophy; archaeology; comparative religion; ethics; the history, criticism and theory of the arts; those aspects of social sciences which have humanistic content and employ humanistic methods; and the study and application of the humanities to the human environment with particular attention to reflecting our diverse heritage, traditions, and history and to the relevance of the humanities to the current conditions of national life.”
–National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act, 1965, as amended

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Writers Omi Translation Lab @ Baruch (Nov. 14th, 2013)

Posted on November 8, 2013 by Admin.

Writers Omi Translation Lab @ Baruch
6:00 p.m., Thursday, November 14
Engelman Recital Hall, Baruch Performing Arts Center,
Baruch College Vertical Campus, 55 Lexington Avenue @25th, NYC

These translator- writer pairs – working on fiction written in Hebrew, German, Japanese and Hungarian — were awarded this year’s prestigious 10-day Translation Lab residency at Writers Omi. On the last evening of the residency, they discuss their intensive collaborative work, the translation process they’ve developed, and how literature is disseminated across languages and cultures. Flyer is here! TranslationLab@Baruch

Takami Nieda (T) and Nao-Cola Yamazaki (W)
Born in New York, Takami Nieda has translated Japanese titles for English-language publication, including Hideyuki Kikuchi’sDark Wars: The Tale of Meiji Dracula, Koji Suzuki’s Promenade of the Gods, M’s Death Note: L, Change the World, and Hayao Miyazaki’s The Art of Ponyo.

Nao-Cola Yamazaki received the 41st Bungei Award, was nominated for the Akutagwa Award, and became a very successful film. She lectures on Japanese literature at Kukogakuin University in Tokyo.

yamazaki-nao-cola ponyo deathnote

Atar Hadari (T) & Iris Leal (W)

Atar Hadari trained as an actor and writer at the University of East Anglia. His plays have won awards from the BBC, Arts Council of England, National Foundation of Jewish Culture (New York), European Association of Jewish Culture (Brussels) and the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he was Young Writer in Residence.

Iris Leal was born at Kibbutz Ashdot Yaakov, Israel, in 1959, and grew up in her grandparents ultra-Orthodox home. She later moved to Paris and studied social work and cinema in London. She now teaches creative writing at the Camera Obscura School of Art in Tel Aviv. Leal has been awarded the Prime Ministers Prize (1994) and the Bernstein Prize for Literary Criticism (1995).

Tim Mohr (T) and Stefanie de Velasco (W)

Tim Mohr ‘s translation of the German novel Guantanamo, by Dorothea Dieckman, won the 2007 Three Percent Award for Best Translated Book. His collaboration with original Guns N’Roses bassist Duff McKagan on his memoir, It’s So Easy (and Other Lies),was selected as a Best Book of 2011 by the Los Angeles Public Library.

Stefanie de Velasco was born in 1978 and studied European Ethnology and Political Sciences in Bonn, Berlin and Warsaw. In 2011 she received the Literature Prize Prenzlauer Berg for the first chapters of her debut. She lives and works in Berlin.

Paul Olchváry (T) and György Dragomán (W)

Paul Olchváry has translated more than ten books from Hungarian, including György Dragomán’s novel The White King(Houghton Mifflin) and Károly Pap’s novel Azarel (Steerforth). He has received translation awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN America, and Hungary’s Milán Füst Foundation.

György Dragomán is a Hungarian author and literary translator, born in Transylvania, Romania in 1973; his family moved toHungary in 1988. His best-known work, The White King (2005) has been translated into 28 languages.

This event is made possible by Writers Omi, Amazon.com, and the Baruch College Globus Lecture Series.

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