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*Registration Closes 2 June 2015*

World Authors and Translators in the Global Circulation of Capital



2-3 July 2015

Lancaster University



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(The programme is also below.)



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Keynote Speakers: Aleida Assman, Susan Bassnett, Anne Barron, Benedict
Schofield and with special poetry performance by Mazen Maarouf.



What are the economic, political, legal, and technological processes
underpinning how authors act on the contemporary global stage, and does it
make sense to talk about such a thing as a ‘world author’? This event
invites participants to reflect on the social function of authors and
translators in the circulation of literature in a global economy. Our
research papers consider how recent developments in the commodification
of literature have transformed traditional conceptions of the author as an
autonomous, but primarily textual, agent, as well as questioned the
relationships between ‘minor’, ‘national’ and ‘world’ literatures that
individual authors and their translators are still frequently made to
represent. Three short-paper panels encourage comparative discussion of
individual case studies in the light of our research papers. A round-table
with industry specialists concludes the event by presenting the very real
practical and legal intercultural issues that determine how authors and
their foreign-language rights circulate in the contemporary global
publishing industry.



*Organised by the Authors and the World hub and Delphine Grass.*


*Programme*

Venue: Lancaster House Hotel conference centre, Green Lane, Lancaster, LA1
4GJ


*Thursday 2 July*

9:15 - 9:30: Welcome - Rebecca Braun


9:30 - 10:30: Aleida Assmann (Konstanz), ‘Sermons for Peace — The Writer as
a Public Institution’


10:30-11:30 Panel: Authority, Authorship and the Global Market


Anna-Katharina Krüger (Munich), ‘“Because I was not a writer…” — Authority
and Authorship in Dave Eggers’ *What is the What*


Katy Stewart (Sheffield), ‘Ondjaki/Ndalu de Almeida: Negotiating Cultural
Identity on a Global Stage’


Joanna Neilly (Oxford), ‘A German Rousseau? Karl Gutzkow’s Jean Jacques in
the Capitalist Market’


11:30-12:30 Coffee & discussion


12:30- 13:30: Anne Barron (London)* '*Credit, Voice and Royalties'


13:30 - 14:30 Lunch


14:30-15:30: Panel: Political Translations of Authorship


Nathalie Carré (Paris), ‘Major Writers in Minor Languages: Ngugi wa
Thiongo’s Case, from Gikuyu to French’


Alex Harrington (Durham), ‘Anglophone Life-Writing on Anna Akhmatova and
the Dynamics of the Myth of the Russian Poet in Russia and the West’


Sandra Mayer (Oxford), ‘Continental Reputation Equalling Posthumous Fame?
Disraeli’s Literary and Political Celebrity in an International Context’


15:30-16:30 Tea and discussion

16:30 - 17:30: Plenary session

19:00: Dinner


20:30: Poetry reading with Mazen Maarouf


Mazen Maarouf is a Palestinian-Icelandic poet and writer, lauded as a
‘rising international literary star’. He has published three collections of
poetry: *The Camera Doesn’t Capture Birds*, *Our Grief Resembles Bread*,
and most recently *An Angel Suspended On The Clothesline*, which has been
translated into several languages including into French by Samira Negrouche
(Amandier Poésie, 2013). His work is currently being translated into
English by Kareem James Abu-Zeid and Nathalie Handal.


*Friday 3 July*


9:30-10.30: Benedict Schofield (London), ‘The Global Shakespeare’

10:00-11:00 Coffee


11:00-13.00: Interactive round table: 'What is a World Author?'


With Alessandro Gallenzi (Alma Books), Gesche Ipsen (Pushkin Press),
Charlotte Ryland (*New Books in German*), Frank Wynne (freelance translator
from the French and the Spanish), Mazen Maarouf (author), Sridhara Aghalaya
(literary agent)


13:00-14:00: Lunch


14:00-15:00: Panel: Embodiment, Authenticity and Authorship


Caroline Summers (Leeds), ‘Discursive Dismemberment: Fragmenting Authorship
in the “Body” of the Translated Text’


Kate Roy (Leeds/Lugano), ‘Paratextual Politics — Global Images, the Visual
Plane, and the “Authentic Author” in the Textual History of the *Memoiren
einer arabischen Prinzessin*’


Emily Spiers (Lancaster), '"My body is a storm cloud waiting to burst":
Authorship, Authenticity, and Cultural Hybridity in Performance Poetry'


15:00-16:00: Susan Bassnett, (Warwick), 'The Power of Rewritings'


16:00-17:00: Small group discussions

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