Ep. 1: Richard Watts on "Activating the Risk of Failure: Translation as Public Scholarship"

Update: 2022-09-26

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In this episode of Going Public, Professor Richard Watts (French & Italian Studies, University of Washington, Seattle) explores the role of failure in publicly engaged scholarship and teaching, the imperatives of departmental transformation, and, of course, translation as a public practice.

Episode Transcript, Sample Syllabi, and the Going Public Archive:

https://simpsoncenter.org/podcasts/ep-9-richard-watts-activating-risk-failure

View Watt's Seminar and Syllabus for "Translation and its Publics":

https://simpsoncenter.org/reimagining-phd-seminar/translation-and-its-publics

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Ep. 1: Richard Watts on "Activating the Risk of Failure: Translation as Public Scholarship"

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Ep. 1: Richard Watts on "Activating the Risk of Failure: Translation as Public Scholarship"

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Ep. 1: Richard Watts on "Activating the Risk of Failure: Translation as Public Scholarship"

The Simpson Center for the Humanities

Ep. 1: Richard Watts on "Activating the Risk of Failure: Translation as Public Scholarship"