Today in class Reminders Next week Mon no

Today in class • Reminders – Next week: Mon – no class; Wed – final portfolio workshop • Wednesday workshop overview • final portfolio recap / apologia brainstorm break • Discussion: where do we go from here? What do we take away? • Course evals

Excerpt from Toni Morrison’s 1993 Nobel Lecture The conventional wisdom of the Tower of Babel story is that the collapse was a misfortune. That it was the distraction, or the weight of many languages that precipitated the tower's failed architecture. That one monolithic language would have expedited the building and heaven would have been reached. Whose heaven, she wonders? And what kind? Perhaps the achievement of Paradise was premature, a little hasty if no one could take the time to understand other languages, other views, other narratives period. Had they, the heaven they imagined might have been found at their feet. Complicated, demanding, yes, but a view of heaven as life; not heaven as post-life.

for Wednesday • Produce a complete draft of your final portfolio • Bring copies of anything you want your group members to mark up in the workshop • Come knowing what you need help with

Lost in Translation 1. How does this pop culture exploration of issues of communication represent – communication and miscommunication – the relationships between language, culture, and identity – encounters with difference ? 2. What do the terms and concepts that we have studied this quarter allow you to see and to say about these representations?

Lost in Translation