TRANSLATING EMOTION: CONSTRUCTING MENTAL EXPERIENCE ACROSS LANGUAGES
Renehan Hall, NUI Maynooth, Friday 3rd March 2006
This colloquium will provide an opportunity for teachers and
researchers concerned with translation and cross-linguistic transfer to
explore current problems and future directions in this developing
interdisciplinary field. There is no attendance fee and all are
welcome. Each paper will be followed by comment and discussion.
10.00 Welcome Dr Peter Denman
10.10 Prof. John Kinsella
‘Journeys into the heart of poetry: translations of Emanuel Félix, Wang
Hen, Hitomaro, and Camilo Pessanha’
10.50 Dr Kathleen Shields
‘Auditory images as sites of emotion: where do they fit into
translation studies?’
11.30 Coffee
12.10 Prof. Michael Cronin
‘The trials of the translating subject: emoting on screen’
1p.m.- 2.30 Colloquium Lunch
2.30 Dr Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin
‘Channelling emotions, eliciting responses: translation as performance’
3.10 Dr Michael Clarke
‘Bad liver, broken heart, swollen lungs: the problem of metaphor’
3.50 Prof. Ruairí Ó hUiginn
‘Love and lamentation: cross-cultural translation in Irish-language texts’
4.30 Coffee
4.50 Prof. Florian Krobb
‘Priapean pursuits: Goethe, translation, and the fate of the Roman Elegies’
5.30 Prof. Dirk Geeraerts
‘Looking back on anger: perspectives from cognitive linguistics’
6.30 Conclusion
DIRECTIONS
Maynooth is accessible via the Sligo road/M4 from Dublin, or on the
newly improved train service from Connolly. Trains take about 30
minutes: suitable departures on Friday include those at 8.40, 9.22 and
9.45; for full timetable see www.irishrail.ie). On entering the main
gates of the Old Campus, go up through the left-hand archway and across
the quadrangle to the central doors of the main building. Go inside and
veer left around the cloister to find Renehan Hall.
ACCOMMODATION
To stay overnight on campus contact the Accommodation Service on 01-708
3726, or www.maynoothcampus.com.
Organised by the Translation Studies Group at NUIM
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