Organizers: 
Susan Thomas (The University of Texas at Austin)
Nancy Yunhwa Rao (Rutgers University)
Michael Iyanaga (College of William and Mary)

Translating the Field explores the multilingual intersections of music, sound, performance, and ethnography. An area often ignored in disciplinary critique, theoretical stances, and methodological training, translation plays a continual—if often unexamined—role in our research, our relationship with the communities with which we collaborate, and the publication and reception of our work.