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Please join us for the next seminar in our 'German in the World' series on Wednesday 26 November! German in the World: King's German Seminars, Autumn Term 2014 Wednesday 26 November: 12.30-2pm (Virginia Woolf Building, Room 6.06) But I don't speak Bulgarian! Translating Tzveta Sofronieva's German-language poetry Dr Chantal Wright, University of Warwick Tzveta Sofronieva, who was awarded the Chamisso-Förderpreis in 2009, recently became only the third female poet to be published in Hanser's prestigious Lyrik Kabinett series with her collection Landschaften, Ufer (2013). Sofronieva, a physicist and historian of science by training, was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, and settled in Berlin in 1992. She writes poetry and prose in Bulgarian, German and English. Chantal Wright, who translated Sofronieva's earlier collection Eine Hand voll Wasser (2008) into English, will discuss the process of translating Sofronieva's work and consider whether exophonic writing -literature authored by non-native speakers - has the potential to shift the translator's conceptual paradigms. Is translating an exophonic text actually any different from translating a text written by a native speaker? http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/german/eventrecords/2014-15/researchsem4.aspx *** King's German Seminars: 'German in the World' This seminar series emerges out of a UK symposium held in June 2014 at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, as well as discussion at the DAAD-sponsored UK Heads of German meeting 2013 on the changing face of German Studies in a globalized world. The series brings together international German Studies scholars to explore aspects of 'German in the World' as a field of critical cultural discourse within a globalized public sphere. The papers, which explore transnational and multilingual aspects of artistic works from the domains of prose, poetry, film and dance, consider possibilities for critically reworking established historical and conceptual paradigms, as well as pointing to a more flexible, multidisciplinary architecture for German Studies and its future as a field of research. The seminars will take place on Wednesday lunchtimes from 12.30-2pm in Room 6.06, Virginia Woolf Building, 22 Kingsway, London, WC2B 6NR. All very welcome! Wednesday 8 October 2014: 12.30-2pm Tobias Boes, University of Notre Dame Thomas Mann as a World Author Tuesday 21 October 2014: 6.30-8pm - Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Strand Campus Thomas Elsaesser, University of Amsterdam Notes from Underground: On Marx & Belatedness in Alexander Kluge Wednesday 5 November 2014: 12.30-2pm Kate Elswit, University of Bristol On Tangling with Histories: Reconstructing Reconstructions on a Global Stage - Kurt Jooss, Lilavati Häger & Future Memory (2012) Wednesday 19 November 2014: 12.30-2pm Kathy Peiss, University of Pennsylvania 'Book Burning - American Style': The Allied Destruction of NS Literature and the US Reaction Wednesday 26 November 2014: 12.30-2pm Chantal Wright, University of Warwick But I don't speak Bulgarian! Translating Tzveta Sofronieva's German-language poetry Wednesday 14 January, 2015: 12.30-2pm Charmian Brinson, Imperial College, London & Richard Dove, University of Greenwich The Defence of the Realm? MI5 and the Surveillance of Anti-Nazi Refugees, 1933-1950 Wednesday 4 March 2015: 12.30-2pm Anna Linton, King's College London Millenarianism in Bromley by Bow: Quirinus Kuhlmann Visits Restoration London Dr Áine McMurtry Reviews Editor: Austrian Studies Department of German Level 5 Virginia Woolf Building King's College London 22 Kingsway, London WC2B 6NR, UK tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2167