Kyle Conway presents talk Nov. 20 on Canadian news, translation The Arts and Sciences Interdisciplinary Speaker Series and Department of English present Kyle Conway, assistant professor of communications, speaking on “News Translation and Cultural Resistance” at 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, in 300 Merrifield Hall. News translation, which takes many forms, encounters two types of cultural resistance that hinder intercultural understanding. The first is apparent in the need to transform a text in order to make it meaningful in a new context, while the second results from the irreducibility of culture as a way of life to the form of a text. This talk illustrates both forms of resistance by analyzing a story originally broadcast on The National in Canada in 1992, and it concludes by considering how journalists and news consumers might work to overcome the distortions caused by news translation. -- Rebecca Weaver-Hightower, Assistant Professor, English, rwh@und.edu, 7-6391