ARF Shant to Host Discussion on Western Armenian Translations

GLENDALE – Why do we need translations of Western Armenian literature? How do we undertake the process of translation? How is the message in the original work relayed in the translation? For whom are these translations made? Please join the ARF Shant Student Association as we attempt to answer these questions during a panel discussion featuring three translators/scholars who have done extensive work in translation.

Dr. Maral Aktokmakyan specializes in modern Western Armenian literature, with a particular emphasis on the Ottoman Armenians before and after the Genocide. She received her Ph.D. in Western Languages and Literature from Boğaziçi University in 2016 and is currently a post-doc at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Dr. Talar Chahinian holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UCLA and teaches at the Department of Comparative World Literature at California State University, Long Beach. Dr. Chahinian recently directed a project for the translation of Malkhas’s classic four-part work, “Zartonk”