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To perpetuate more than two centuries of shared ideals and friendship; to build lasting, practical working ties; and to advance solutions to problems of shared concern. |
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Happy New Year on behalf of the team at the French-American Foundation. Though we continue to face ongoing challenges, from Covid-19 to what happened yesterday at the U.S. Capitol, we are more eager than ever to welcome you back after the winter holidays for a new program calendar, one that firmly addresses these challenges and brings together leaders to work toward solutions. In light of yesterday's events, the Foundation is already working on upcoming discussions, and we will be sure to keep you up to date.
We'd like to draw particular attention to a unique milestone in the French-American Foundation's history. 2021 marks the 40th anniversary of our flagship Young Leaders program. Organizing its first international gathering of French and American leaders in 1981, the program continues to strengthen the relationship between both sides of the Atlantic through its annual summits and alumni community. We take pride in the wealth of perspectives brought to the Foundation's community by our Young Leaders, who range from presidents and prime ministers to authors and musicians. To celebrate this landmark year, we're organizing a collection of virtual events that fosters connections between past and present classes of Young Leaders and conveys their expertise to the wider public.
We also encourage you to follow our website, social media, and newsletters for regular updates. Reflecting the current state of global affairs, our virtual events are constantly updated.
As always, thank you for your continued support of our work!
Sincerely,
The Team of the French-American Foundation
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You do not need a Zoom account to join. Registered guests will receive a link to join in the days leading up to the event. You can find the full list of descriptions and recordings of our webinars on our website.
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TRANSATLANTIC FORUM
Private event | For members only
Description: Our guest speaker Paula Braveman will discuss how systemic racism influences equitable health care in the United States and abroad, based on scientific data. Braveman will explore racism as a plausible cause of the persistent disparity in preterm birth, among other health outcomes and complications.
Date: Tuesday, January 13 at 6:00 pm EST
Speaker: Paula Braveman, Director of the Center on Social Disparities in Health at UCSF
Moderator: Elena Pak, Head of North America at The Fred Hollows Foundation and a 2014 Young Leader.
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HOW TO ENSURE AN ECONOMY THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE
Public policy | Open to the public
Description: The coronavirus crisis has sharpened already stark economic inequalities in the US. Vulnerable low-income families have been hit disproportionately harder by the crisis, and have benefited less from rebound in activity while higher-income families have benefited from strong employment conditions and ongoing stock market gains, reflective of the so-called K-shaped recovery.
Date: January 27 at 1:00 pm EST
Speaker: Josh Bivens, Director of research at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI)
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Interviews with members of our growing community of leaders and experts (Young Leaders, Transatlantic Forum members, Cyber Security experts, Translation Prize winners, Immigration Journalism Fellows, and more) |
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Alyson Waters
Professional Translator
Professor of Literary Translation at Yale University
Translation Prize winner
Q. You have a long career translating literary works from authors such as Louis Aragon, Emmanuel Bove, Eric Chevillard, and many others. What makes for a successful translation, and what are you seeking to convey when you sit down to translate an author’s work? Put another way, are there any pitfalls of poor translation that you are trying to avoid?
The primary thing I want to express is an author’s voice. Translating fiction for me is rarely about the message of a work, but rather about capturing the way that message is delivered. What is it about a particular voice that distinguishes it from all other voices? Metaphors and similes, alliteration, sentence flow, idiomatic expressions and idiolects, all the things that make up style, which can more or less be analyzed, and then the more ephemeral, harder to explain thing we call either narrative or authorial voice. A poor translation for me is one in which that voice doesn’t come through in English. I avoid translating authors whose voice I can’t capture, no matter how much I may love and respect a work. I’ve learned to accept my limitations, at least the ones I’m aware of!
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The 2021 awards cycle opened for submissions in November 2020 and will close on Friday, January 15, 2021.
For more information, click here.
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"Global leaders watched live as a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol, and many saw it as a warning to global democracies, placing the blame squarely on President Trump. (...)".
"Les hommes qui ont pénétré l’enceinte du Congrès sont accusés par certains pro-Trump d’être des « antifas » déguisés. Ils appartiennent, en réalité, à une frange des plus radicales de l’extrême droite. (...)".
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