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‘Shelving Translation’
University of Oxford
17th April 2004
A one day conference on the role of the translated text in Britain today
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’
Penelope 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), ‘The Fallacy of the Preferred Method of Literary 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), Zool Verjee (Blackwells Bookshop)
7:00 Wine Reception in Blackwells Bookshop, 50 Broad Street, Oxford
8:00 Conference dinner at New College.
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Rebecca Beard
College Lecturer in German
St. Edmund Hall, Oxford
OX1 4AR
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