In a panel moderated by Marijeta Bozovic (Slavic Languages & Literatures) featuring Brad Inwood (Philosophy & Classics), Tom Phillips (Visting, the Humanities Program), and Shawkat Toorawa (Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Comparative Literature), we discussed the problems and joy of translation. The vast majority of texts across Yale’s Directed Studies syllabi are works taught in translation. When we read these textual monuments of Western and Near Eastern cultures, in other words, we are always reading through layers of interpretation and mediation: each translation of a canonized work brings its own often profound intellectual and political stakes. What happens when we pause and consider the ways in which translation, as such, is not at all marginal but indeed central to nearly all forms of literary, social, political, economic, legal, technological, and medical communication? How do we read translations? How might DS teach us to work closely and carefully with translation?