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Translating Poetries: A Symposium for Translation Practitioners SOAS University of London Thursday the 12th and Friday the 13th of September 2019 Translating Poetries: A Symposium for Translation Practitioners will gather 50 leading translation practitioners from around the world to discuss the practice of translating poetry. This two-day event will be hosted by the Poetry Translation Centre and SOAS University of London with support from Commonwealth Writers, Literature Across Frontiers and the National Centre for Writing. We are now open to expressions of interest from participants. The aims of the symposium are: * To bring together leading poetry translators from around the world, from both academic and non-academic contexts * To facilitate a high-quality exploration of current poetry translation practice across a wide range of languages and methods * To emphasise poets and poems in Asian, African and Latin American languages, which are under-represented both in UK publishing and in scholarly research * To emphasise practical rather than theoretical concerns * To offer networking opportunities, including for students and emerging translators The symposium will take place over two full days of plenary sessions. Each session will start with a short panel presentation before opening up into a discussion. Session topics will be finalised in spring 2019 based on the interests of delegates; these are likely to include: * Responsibility - to the poem, the poet, the poetic culture, the language, the society * Translating endangered languages * Questions of form - challenges of working with particular metres, rhyme and alliteration patterns, parallelism, specific syntax etc * Specific challenges of translating oral poetry * Ethical issues with respect to poets and poems, poetry and power * Deciding who and what to translate * The position of poetry as an artform in different cultural contexts The symposium will open with a keynote talk by poet and translator Mamta Sagar (India), and close with an in-conversation event featuring poet Abdilatif Abdalla (Kenya) and leading Swahili translator Annmarie Drury (USA). If you wish to take part as a delegate, please email [log in to unmask] with the following information: * Topics that you would like to explore at the symposium * Your translation experience and area of research (if relevant) * Why you want to attend the symposium Deadline to apply: 30 April 2019 For further details: see https://www.poetrytranslation.org/events/translating-poetries-a-symposium-for-translation-practitioners ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CREATIVE-CRITICAL list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CREATIVE-CRITICAL&A=1