Prismatic Translation by the OCCT Programme (Oxford Comparative Criticism & Translation) open for registration now!
Dear friends, we are very pleased to announce that the programme for our annual conference on 'Prismatic Translation' from 1-3 Oct is decided and registration for the conference is open. Please see below for the registration link and programme (provisional). We also aim to provide bursaries for 10-13 graduate student attendents to cover the conference costs (first come first served). If you have further questions please don't hesitate to get in touch via email. We look forward to seeing you in October.
Registration link:
http://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=5&deptid=176&catid=442&prodid=1090
Conference Programme (provisional):
1 Oct
9:00-9:15 coffee and registration
9:20-9:30 Welcome (Matthew Reynolds)
9:30-10:30 Keynote 1: Rocío Banos-Pineiro: The kaleidoscopic nature of Audiovisual Translation: a multiplicity of modalities, landscapes and challenges (chair: Phillip Rothwell)
10:30-10:45 coffee break
10:45-12:15 Panel 1 (3 papers) Resistances (chair: Ben Morgan)
De-pathologizing Perversion: Proust’s Sexual Discourses and Their Chinese Translations, Shuangyi Li
Translating Occupied Jerusalem: A Palestinian-Israeli Struggle for Power and Legitimacy, Ahmad Ayyad
Refracting and Recomposing Cultures, Jean Anderson
12:15-1:30pm lunch
1:30-3pm Panel 2 (3 papers) Pseudo-writing and refraction. (chair: Matthew Reynolds)
Chantal Wright: The translational prism of commentary. Antoine Berman’s L’Âge de la Traduction in English.
‘Less than Paper-Thin’: See-through Translation in Harry Mathews’s Armenian Papers, Dennis Duncan
Kasia Szymanska: Literary Metatranslations: The Ethics of Prismatic Translation
3-3:15pm coffee break
3:15-4:45pm Panel 3 (3 papers) The Translation Machine (chair: Adriana X. Jacobs)
The Poet and the Machine. Machine Translation in Hsia Yü’s Pink Noise, Cosima Bruno
Translation Arrays, Tom Cheesman
Emily Rose: Translating Intersexuality: Producing Multiple Readings with One Text/Body
4:45-5pm Coffee break
5-6:30pm Artist’s/Writer’s talk: Kilgallon and Eran Hadas (respondent: Adriana X. Jacobs)
2 Oct
9:30-10:30 Keynote 2: John Cayley: Mirroring Events at the Sense Horizon: translation over time (chair: tbc)
10:30-10:45 coffee break
10:45-12:45 Panel 4 (4 papers) Shifting Contexts (chair: Kasia Szymanska)
Translation or re-writing? Prismatic versions in Isabel del Río’s Cero negativo/ Zero Negative, Ellen Jones
The Writer’s Archive: A Source for Prismatic Translation, Cecilia Rossi
Tales out of India: Jean-Antoine Dubois’s Translations of Indian Collections of Stories, Claudine le Blanc
Five dramatists, a copyist and a censor in search of a Translation: Sir Thomas More and its Brazilian translation, Régis Augustus Bars Closel
12:45-2pm lunch
2-3:30pm Panel 5 German panel on translation of the Bible (chair: tbc)
Henrike Laehnemann and Howard Jones
3:30-3:45pm Coffee break
3:45-5:15pm Panel 6 Fragments (chair: tbc)
“T pour Traduction(s) – Translating Nonsense Alphabets into French”, Audrey Coussy (Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3)
The Schizophrenic Prism: Louis Wolfson’s Translation System, Alexandra Lukes
Coleridge diffracted, Patrick Hersant
5:15-5:30pm coffee break
5:30-6:30pm Writer’s talk: Philip Terry: Oulipo and the prisms of translation (respondent: Matthew Reynolds)
7pm Conference dinner at St Anne’s College
3 Oct
9:15-10:15 Keynote 3: Emily Apter: The Prism-House of Language: Translational Collective or Corporate Monolingualism? (chair: Ben Morgan)
10:15-10:30 coffee break
10:30-11:55 Panel 7 (3 papers) Script and Image (chair: Xiaofan Amy Li)
Ancient Egyptian visual literariness between the unspoken and the untranslatable, Hany Rashwan
Transnational Scriptworlds, Sowon Park
A Lingo-visual Translation of the Poetry of Shafii Kadkani, Pari Azarm Motamedi
12:00-12:30pm Roundtable and conclusion
Accommodation
Please note that you need to book your accommodation separately. In order to book a room at St Anne's College please follow this link and use the promotional code COMP21608. The charge is £75.00 B&B per room per night.
Further accommodation is available through University Rooms Oxford.
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