‘Shelving Translation’
University of Oxford
17th April 2004
A one day conference on the role of the translated text in Britain today
*For further details and registration, please see www.shelvingtranslation.com*
Programme
9:00 Registration at the Maison Française, Norham Road, Oxford
9:30 Opening Speaker
Anthea Bell (freelance translator), ‘Translation as Illusion’
10:30 Coffee / Tea
11:00 Session 1 (chaired by Boyd Tonkin)
Peter Bush (Vice-President of the International Federation of Translators,
Barcelona), ‘The Reception of Literature and Translated Literature: Barcelona,
Paris, London’
Kirsten Malmkjaer (Middlesex University), ‘Wreaking Havok: Or Why is Tom
Kristensen Not on British Shelves?’
Marco Sonzogni (University College Dublin), ‘Corno Inglese: The Poetry of
Eugenio Montale in English translation’
Carol O’Sullivan (University of East Anglia, British Centre for Literary
Translation), ‘Contemporary Italian Fiction in English Translation’
1:00 Lunch
2:30 Session 2a (chair TBC)
Carmen Bugan (Oxford University), ‘“Taking Possession” of “Extraterritorial Poetics”: Seamus Heaney and East European Poetry in Translation’
Lyn Marven (Oxford University), ‘Missing a Heart Beast: Positioning Herta
Müller in English’
Patricia Johnson (Newcastle University), ‘Text Selection and the Image of the
Other: Neruda’s Poetry in English Translation’
2:30 Session 2b (chair TBC)
Patricia Billings (Milet Publishing), ‘Expanding Textual and Visual
Vocabularies with Children’s Picture Books Translated from French’
Ali Khazaee Far (Feradowsi University, Iran), ‘Iran and England: The Role of
the Reader in Conditioning Translation’
Eleni Papargyriou (Oxford University), ‘Translating intertextuality as cultural
reference: Yoryis Yatromanolakis’ Greek novel Eroticon’
4:30 Coffee / Tea
5:00 Panel Discussion
Christopher MacLehose (Harvill Press), Boyd Tonkin (Independent), Anthea Bell
(freelance translator), Carol O’Sullivan (British Centre for Literary
Translation)
7:00 Wine Reception in Blackwells Bookshop, 50 Broad Street, Oxford
8:00 Conference dinner at New College.
*For further details and registration, please see www.shelvingtranslation.com*
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Rebecca Beard
College Lecturer in German
St. Edmund Hall, Oxford
OX1 4AR
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