The Translator Made Corporeal: Translation History and the Archive

Just a quick reminder to my more tireless (or insomniac) readers that there's a really wonderful-looking event coming up at the British Library on translation history and archival research. There's still time to sign up:

https://www.bl.uk/events/the-translator-made-corporeal-translation-history-and-the-archive

There are various concessions including a hefty discount for members of the Translators Association of the Society of Authors. 

There is, by any standards, a fantastic line-up of speakers - I think the only problem will be the embarrassment of riches. The programme includes a keynote by Jeremy Munday, author of a number of distinguished publications using archival methodology, including this excellent 2014 article (paywalled) in The Translator.

I hope to see many old and new friends there!

Sebald Lecture, 20 Feb 2017: Michael Longley on translating Latin & Greek poetry

The British Centre for Literary Translation
In association with the British Library

The Sebald Lecture 2017

Releasing the Lyric: Translating Latin and Greek Poetry
Michael Longley CBE

Monday 20 February 2017
7pm, The British Library Conference Centre
London NW1 2DB

Tickets £12 (£10 over 60s, £8 con)
On sale from the British Library Box Office
www.bl.uk/events

Since studying Classics at Trinity College Dublin, Irish poet Michael Longley has frequently drawn on classical models in his poetry and established allusive parallels between ancient and modern concerns. Over the course of his career he has also translated a wide variety of fellow poets, from classical authors to Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, prompting Justin Quinn to write that ‘for Longley, translation becomes a way of thinking about the world’. In this lecture he will be reading, and commenting on, his translations from Latin and Greek. He will begin with his youthful versions from Sextus Propertius and progress to later poems derived from Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, taking in Sappho and Tibullus on the way.

One of Britain’s finest poets, Michael Longley has received many awards for his lyrical poems about love, death, memory, history and nature, published over more than fifty years. His collection Gorse Fires (1991) won the Whitbread Poetry Prize, and The Weather in Japan (2000) won the Irish Times Literature Prize for Poetry, the Hawthornden Prize, and the T.S. Eliot Prize. His most recent book The Stairwell won the 2015 Griffin International Prize. His next collection Angel Hill will be published in June 2017. He was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2001, and was appointed a CBE in 2003. He was Professor of Poetry for Ireland from 2007 to 2010.

The Sebald Lecture is given annually on an aspect of literature in translation and is named after W.G. Sebald who set up BCLT in 1989. ‘Max’ was a German writer who opted to live in the UK and continue writing in German. His novels and essays include The Rings of Saturn, Austerlitz and On the Natural History of Destruction, and they established him as a leading writer of the 20th century.

CFP: The Translator Made Corporeal: Translation History and the Archive, British Library, 8 May 2017

British Library and University College London

The Translator Made Corporeal: Translation History and the Archive

8 May 2017 
British Library Conference Centre

Keynote speaker: Jeremy Munday

CALL FOR PAPERS

In 2001 Theo Hermans suggested that while we have recognized that there can be no text without the human translator, translators are still expected to remain “hidden, out of view, transparent, incorporeal, disembodied and disenfranchised”.

Anthony Pym describes the need to look at the “flesh and blood” translator if we are to gain a deeper understanding of translators as cultural agents. D’Hulst suggests that we should ask Qui? - who is the translator? To answer this question he suggests we need to investigate the biographical detail of the translator, including his/her educational, social and economic background. More recently, Jeremy Munday, Outi Paloposki and others have suggested that we should research translators’ archives to reveal their every-day lives, struggles, networks, and even friendships. Munday has further suggested the creation of micro-histories of translators.

This conference sets out to explore current progress in studying the human, flesh-and-blood translator in an historical and cultural context.  A final panel, chaired by Theo Hermans, will focus on the future potentials, limitations and risks of biographical research of translators in Translation Studies and the humanities.

The British Library and University College London are currently accepting abstracts for papers from scholars and early career researchers in Translation Studies, History, Gender Studies, Comparative Literature, Sociology etc. We also welcome papers from archivists, curators and translators.

Scope

Themes for papers may include, but are not restricted to:

•    Biographical case studies of translators
•    Translators as political and/or cultural agents
•    The translator’s every-day life
•    Status and agency of translators
•    Translators' networks
•    The translator’s relationship with the author, publisher, editor
•    Translators’ social and cultural profile(s)
•    The translator negotiating her/his public persona – visibility versus invisibility
•    Translator as a poly-professional versus mono-professional
•    Amateur translators
•    Translation as a collaborative act
•    Collection of, and access to, translators archives
•    The opportunities and difficulties posed in of crossing disciplinary boundaries
•    The place of Bourdieu in investigating translators (“field”, “habitus”, capital)
•    The potential of collaborative research

Deadline and further details

Abstracts of 300 words should be sent to deborah.dawkin[at]bl.uk by Friday 4 November 2016.
Selection of papers will be confirmed by the committee by 9 December 2016.

Scientific Committee

Theo Hermans, Jeremy Munday, Outi Paloposki, Mark Shuttleworth, Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen, Deborah Dawkin, Peter Good, Rachel Foss.

The British Library and Translation
The British Library is committed to promoting the importance of translation through its collections and events.  Among other translation related events, it is proud to host the annual Sebald Lecture and International Translation Day. “The Translator Made Corporeal: Translation History and the Archive” conference builds on two recent conferences held here: “Archival Uncertainties“, an international conference, exploring  the “diasporic archive” which featured leading Translation Studies scholars presenting their work on translation related archives, and the 2011 Conference “Literary Translators: Creative, Cultural and Collecting Contexts” which served as a forum for translation scholars, publishers, curators and archivists to discuss the future of collecting translators’ archives

Event: ADMIT ALL: Accessing the Arts Through Multisemiotic Translation, London, 27 May

ADMIT ALL: Accessing the Arts Through Multisemiotic Translation

 

Sarah Eardley-Weaver (Queen's University, Belfast)

Pioneering arts accessibility provisions are pushing the boundaries of translation to embrace communication between multiple senses. Interaction between the sensory channels of sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste is intrinsic to the reception of a live artistic performance and therefore this field requires an approach to translation that involves engaging multiple senses: a multisemiotic model (Weaver 2010; Delabastita 1989). With a view to facilitating access for audiences with diverse linguistic and sensory abilities there has been a rapid development of methods aiming to translate the multisemioticity of live artistic performance for all. In the last 20 years the variety of such translation methods has increased to include audio description, touch tours, sign language interpreting, captioning for the deaf and hard-of-hearing, and audiosubtitling. Moreover, at present experiments with ground-breaking haptic and sound technologies are opening the doors to a more sensorially immersive experience for all. During this seminar, a multisemiotic model of translation will be explored through investigation of these innovative translation modalities and there will be opportunities for hand-on experiences of techniques employed to facilitate arts accessibility for all.

Date: 27/05/2016 - 16:00 - 18:30
Institute: Institute of Modern Languages Research
Type: Seminar
Venue: Room 234, Second Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

http://www.sas.ac.uk/support-research/public-events/2016/admit-all-accessing-arts-through-multisemiotic-translation

The 'speech-man': Screen translation and the benshi tradition in Japan

We are very excited about our upcoming conference on 'Splendid Innovations' in the history of film translation, focusing on the 1920s and 1930s and the arrival of sound. We have an extraordinary international line-up of speakers: for the full list, or to register, click here.

Alongside this event, we are delighted to be featuring an open evening showcasing the Japanese tradition of the benshi, or film narrator. Benshi performed alongside the film, and were big stars in Japan in the silent period. Here's a mention of the benshi from an American newspaper report of 1927:

 Snippet from the Lincoln Star, 10 July 1927, from newspapers.com.

(I should say that despite the phrase 'speech-man' benshi are not only men - for instance, the distinguished benshi Midori Sawato). There are some more details about the work of the benshi here. See also Markus Nornes' wonderful book Cinema Babel: Translating Global Cinema.

Our benshi is Kataoka Ichiro, a distinguished performer who has taken part in film screenings around the world. You can find more information on Mr Kataoka's background here. The event will also feature Professor Markus Nornes, a specialist in Japanese cinema as well as author of some of the most interesting work on audiovisual translation. Mr Kataoka and Professor Nornes will present narration for short films from Japanese and English, and there will be an opportunity for questions and answers. For more information, here is a clip of Mr Kataoka performing:

The event is designed to be accessible for non-Japanese speakers, though Japanese speakers are of course warmly welcome. Feel free to circulate the flyer below to anyone you think might be interested. To register for this event, see the event webpage here. The event is free, but registration is required.

e-flier for 'Splendid Innovations' conference on the history of translating films

In case any readers missed our recent announcement of the upcoming conference in May 2014, here is a downloadable e-flier for your convenience (and those of all your friends and relations who might have an interest in the history of screen translation).

 

For further information please feel free to contact me on carol.osullivan at bristol.ac.uk. 

'Splendid Innovations' conference on screen translation history, London 21-22 May 2015

I am, as my countrymen are wont to say, excira' an' delira' to say that registration is open for the British Academy Conference

'Splendid Innovations': The Development, Reception 

and Preservation of Screen Translation'

organised by myself and the distinguished French researcher Jean-François Cornu, author of the recently published Le doublage et le sous-titrage: Histoire et esthétique.

The conference website, draft programme and details of how to register are here.

As you'll see from the conference website, it brings together an extraordinary combination of experts in film archiving, film history and translation. This has been made possible through the wonderful generosity of the British Academy who are funding the conference and who are organising it at their beautiful homeplace at Carlton House Terrace. We literally can't wait!

The conference will also include a public event about the history of screen translation, featuring the distinguished Japanese benshi Kataoka Ichiro (more information here).

Please feel free to contact me at carol.osullivan at bristol.ac.uk if you have any questions about these events.

Translation, Research and the Production of Knowledge

This looks like a really interesting event:

One-Day Conference: Translation, Research and the Production of Knowledge

Date: Friday 28 November 2014
Venue: Institut Français, 17 Queensberry Place, London

Organised by the Society for French Studies and the French Studies Library Group,
with the collaboration of the Institut français

This event will bring together translators, academics and librarians to discuss the ways in which translation constitutes a form of research and knowledge production in its own right. It will include discussion of translation as a form of practice as research, and provide reflections by researchers and translators on recent projects that exemplify such an approach. Colleagues from the British Library will explore the potential of translators’ papers as a research resource, and there will be a round table with colleagues from the wider fields of translation studies and Modern Languages. The event will conclude with a presentation by prize-winning translator and curator Sarah Ardizzone. This is the third in a series of translation-related events co-organized by SFS and FSLG, and follows previous symposia on ‘Constructing “21st-century Literature in French”‘ in December 2011 and ‘Translation and Reception: 21st-century French fiction in the UK’ in April 2013.

Advance booking is essential by 14 November 2014 as spaces will be limited.

Programme
10.00 – tea/coffee and registration
10.30 –panel 1:
Nick Harrison (KCL), Translation as research
Kate Briggs (American University in Paris), Translation as experiment
11.30 – panel 2:
Nina Parish (Bath) and Emma Wagstaff (Birmingham), Translating contemporary French poetry
Michael Syrotinski (Glasgow), Translating the Dictionary of Untranslatables
Tim Mathews (UCL), Translation and reading
1.00 – lunch
2.00 – Rachel Foss and Deborah Dawkin (British Library), Collecting Translators’ Archives at the British Library
3.00 – tea/coffee
3.30 – round table (with Kate Briggs (American University in Paris), Nick Harrison (KCL), Duncan Large (British Centre for Literary Translation, UEA) and Karen Leeder (University of Oxford))
4.30 – Sarah Ardizzone, The Spectacular Translation Machine & Other Adventures in Translation 
5.30 – event ends

Registration
Please register as soon as possible, and before Friday 14 November 2014, by completing the brief form below, and returning it with a cheque for the required to the following address:

Professor Charles Forsdick,
CLAS: French,
Cypress Building,
University of Liverpool,
Liverpool L69 7ZR

Please mark the envelope ‘Translation Event’.

Fee (including lunch and refreshments): £40 for the day (reduced rate of £20 for postgraduates and unwaged).

Cheques payable to The Society for French Studies. Please provide an email address as confirmation of registration will be provided by this means. Receipts will be available on the day.
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Please address any enquiries to Charles Forsdick (craf[at]liv.ac.uk)

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Save the date: Translate in the City 2015, London, 6-10 July 2015

Doesn't everyone love a good summer school? I hear very good things about this one, so you might want to make a note in your diary.

Part-bursaries available.

Poetry in Metamorphosis: A celebration of Italian poetry and translation

For italianisti, poetry lovers and anyone who enjoyed this post on Dante in Essex:

Poetry in Metamorphosis

A celebration of Italian poetry and translation

as part of the British Academy Guardian Language Festival and the Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo 2014

Tuesday 21 October 2014

at The British Academy, 10–11 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH

9.30 a.m.–5.45 p.m.

Speakers include: Jacob Blakesley (Leeds), Nadia Cannata and colleagues (Sapienza Università di Roma), Daniela Caselli (Manchester), F.M. Federici (UCL), Paul Howard (Cambridge), Daniela La Penna (Reading), Matthew Reynolds (Oxford), Claudia Rossignoli (St Andrews) and Nigel Vincent (Manchester)

at the Italian Cultural Institute, 39 Belgrave Square, London, SW1X 8NX

6.30 p.m.

Matthew Reynolds will introduce readings by Philip Terry (Essex) from Dante’s Inferno

Marina Warner will introduce Jamie McKendrick’s new translation of the poetry of Antonella Anedda

For further information and the programme, see:

http://www.bsr.ac.uk/poetry-in-metamorphosis

Free translation events in London, 24-26 June 2014

Readers near London may be interested in these free public events which are part of the summer school, Translate in the City, organised in collaboration with City University:

TRANSLATE IN THE CITY OPEN EVENTS: FREE TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC

TUESDAY 24^TH JUNE at 5pm. BIRLEY LECTURE HALL

TRANSLATION SLAM FOR ITALIAN/NON-ITALIAN  SPEAKERS ALIKE!

Two well-known Italian translation slammers will compete to produce the most popular version of La Madre (the Mother) by Natalia Ginzburg. 

Shaun Whiteside:- His translations from Italian include Venice is a Fish and Stabat Mater (commended for the 2013 John Florio Prize) by Tiziano Scarpa, The Legend of Redenta Tiria by Salvatore Niffoi and The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano, as well as four novels by the Luther Blissett/Wu Ming writers’ collective: Q (shortlisted for the 2004 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize), 54, Manituana and Altai. He lives in London.

Kevin Halliwell:-Throughout the 1980s to the mid-1990s, Kevin lived and worked in Milan where – in addition to teaching at the Catholic University and the School for Translators and Interpreters – he started to work as a translator, specialising in History of Art texts. He then relocated to Brussels, where he spent the following 14 years translating/revising EU documents, mainly from Italian, French and Swedish. A freelance translator since 2008, Kevin is the recipient of the Gate Theatre Translation Award and his most recent Italian translation for the theatre is Otto by Roberta Calandra, which premiered earlier this year in Rome.                            

Chaired by Professor Amanda Hopkinson

THURSDAY 26^th JUNE at 5pm BIRLEY LECTURE HALL

KEYNOTE LECTURE BY PROF. SUSAN BASSNETT ON THE MAKING & TRANSLATING OF MEMORY

Is fact stranger than fiction, remembering more truthful than invention? How do writers translate their recall of reality into a new world of the imagination, and what is the role of the translator in capturing their memories of the past for an audience in the future?

Susan Bassnett is a writer, translator and academic. Her latest books are the 4th Edition of her best-selling Translation Studies (2013) which is used by students all over the world, and Translation (2014) in the Routledge New Critical Idiom series. She is Professor of Comparative Literature and Special Advisor on Translation at the University of Warwick and is also Honorary Director of the Translation Studies Centre at the University of Birmingham.

Call for papers: Translation Talk (deadline 1 July 2014)

This looks like a really great conference:

Conference Title: Translation Talk

Deadline for proposals: 1 July 2014

A 2-day international conference to be held at the Institute of Modern Languages Research (IMLR), School of Advanced Study, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU, UK, on Thursday 23-Friday 24 April 2015.

Can translation be said to define the contemporary ethos (Alexis Nouss, 2007)? This conference asks to what extent the concept of 'translation' and images of translators and interpreters have been employed to talk about ideas well beyond the activity of rendering a text into another language. Is the early 21st Century a time of especially intense 'translation talk'? Have there been other times and places in which one can identify a similar cultural fascination or anxiety connected with the idea of translation?

This conference explores the idea of 'translation talk', in other words, the many and varied ways in which translation as an activity and the translator as a figure have been interpreted and given cultural significance. The focus of this conference will therefore be on discourses about translation, rather than on translation in and of itself.

We invite papers on subjects from any period or cultural context that consider one or more of the following areas of investigation:

-       Literary, autobiographical, religious, historical, anthropological or other narratives about translation or translators
-       The image of the translator or interpreter as, for example, mediator, traitor, informant, smuggler, collaborator (in all senses), hero/villain, resister/oppressor
-       Are translators seen as autonomous individuals or as representatives of a group, institution, or culture? Professional or amateur? Free or constrained? Neutral or partisan?
-       How do translators talk about their own, or others', work? Are there clashes between writers, speakers, translators, publishers and scholars?
-       What stories are told in order to guarantee or undermine the authenticity of a translation or the integrity of a translator?
-       What metaphors are used to describe the relationship between writer/speaker and translator/interpreter, source text and translated text?
-       Translation as metaphor: what is discussion of translation really about?
-       Institutional translation talk: how do libraries, universities, research councils, archives, publishers, and other political and cultural institutions, view translation and translators?
-       What terms are used to describe translators' work, and what status do their products have?
-       The status of translation and translators in the cultural and political media
-       Translation scandals and the interests behind them

Abstracts (max. 300 words) for 20-minute papers or proposals for thematic panels should be sent to both:

Prof Peter Davies (peter.j.davies at ed.ac.uk) and
Dr Angela Kershaw (a.kershaw at bham.ac.uk)

by 1 July 2014.

The conference is jointly organised by the Birmingham Centre for Translation, University of Birmingham, the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh, and the IMLR.

CFP: Translation as a Tool for Inclusion/Exclusion in a Multicultural Society (deadline 28 Feb 2014)

A very interesting-looking conference on an important topic: 
 
CALL FOR PAPERS: Translating Cultures:
Translation as a Tool for Inclusion/Exclusion in a Multicultural Society
 
University of Westminster, London, 20 June 2014

‘Public service translation’ (also known as ‘Community translation’) is emerging as an important, distinct subfield in Translation Studies. Its focus on the translation of texts produced by public services for the benefit of speakers of less-established languages makes it a particularly relevant research area in today’s globalizing world. In a multicultural society decisions about what is translated and how the translation is done have far-reaching implications for the inclusion and exclusion of certain communities and/or community members.

This one-day conference aims to bring together researchers focusing on:

• Language policy and public service translation
• Translation and inclusivity
• Socio-cultural diversity and translation
• Training public service translators

Timeline:
28.02.2014- Deadline for abstract submission
14.03.2014- Invitations sent out to selected presenters
06.06.2014- Deadline for full article submission
20.06.2014- Conference
Post-conference – a selection of papers will be published as a thematic journal issue

Submissions are accepted for:
• Presentations (30 minutes +Q&A)
• Posters

Abstracts and inquiries to be sent to Dr Daniel Tomozeiu (d.tomozeiu at westminster.ac.uk) with “TC 2014” mentioned in the e-mail title.

Theatre Translation Forum 2014, London

Just got a reminder about these continuing seminars and workshops on theatre translation which look very interesting:

The UCL Theatre Translation Forum returns in 2014 with five seminars and workshops exploring interdisciplinary themes in drama/theatre translation research and practice. Places limited: early registration recommended.

·         14 January: Workshop of Caroline Bird’s version of The Trojan Women led by Christopher Haydon.
·         28 January: Contemporary Drama seminar with Emma Cole on Sarah Kane’s Phaedra’s Love, Tom Wilks on Wilhelm Genazino, Marta Niccolai on Dario Fo, with David Johnston as guest speaker.
·         11 February: Workshop on Contemporary Drama in translation organized by the Gate Theatre, Notting Hill.
·         4 March: Modernism seminar with Enza De Francisci on Pirandello, Mairéad Hanrahan on Genet, Gareth Wood on Lorca, with Kate Eaton as guest speaker.
·         18 March: Workshop on Kate Eaton’s translations of Piñera led by Gráinne Byrne.

Further details and registration are available on the Theatre Translation Forum website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/translation-studies/theatre-translation-forum

The series is funded by the UCL Faculty of Arts & Humanities and run in partnership with the Gate Theatre, Notting Hill. Please contact the convenors, Geraldine Brodie, g.brodie at ucl.ac.uk, and Emma Cole, e.cole.11 at ucl.ac.uk, for additional information.

Happy St. Jerome's day (aka International Translation Day)

It's nearly 30 September, the feast-day of St. Jerome, patron saint of translators. Here he is, in the familiar painting by Ghirlandaio, looking overworked and ergonomically challenged. (You can find other representations of him here). Happy birthday, St.J.

Alas, the International Translation Day symposium at the British Library in his honour has sold out for this year - that's a pity because the lineup looked wonderful. But it's now in its fourth consecutive year, so let's hope it'll be on again next year, and book early...

We can console ourselves with the following online event:

3) EVENT WEBCAST: UTB'S FIRST INTERNATIONAL TRANSLATION DAY COLLOQUIUM

The University of Texas at Brownsville will celebrate its First International Translation Day Colloquium on Monday, September 30 from 4:30-7:30 p.m. (US Central Time). The event will be webcast live at http://utb.edu/its/olt/livewebcast/Pages/default.aspx

UTB's First International Translation Day Colloquium seeks to discuss a number of key aspects related to the practice of translation and interpreting in professional settings as they impinge on different areas of specialization, such as literary translation, court interpreting, and sign language interpreting.

Three experts from across the state of Texas will bring their insights to the colloquium: Dr. Marko Miletich (University of Texas at Arlington), Dr. Melissa Wallace (University of Texas at San Antonio), and Professor Rosemary Liñán-Landa (University of Texas at Brownsville).

Our keynote speaker will be Dr. Elena Fernández-Miranda (Directorate General for Translation, European Commission), who will present her latest publication: Sobre la traducción (Cátedra, 2012), a Spanish translation of two foundational texts in Translation Studies: Eugene Nida's Toward a Science of Translating and The Theory and Practice of Translation.

The schedule (US Central Time) is as follows:

4:30 p.m. | Welcome remarks

4:40 p.m. | Opening by Dr. Javier Martínez, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts

4:50 p.m. | Dr. Elena Nida (DGT): Eugene Nida, Pioneer of Modern Translatology: His Theory and Ideas as Presented in Sobre la traducción, a Spanish Translation of Toward a Science of Translating and The Theory and Practice of Translation

5:35 p.m. | Q&A

5:45 p.m. | Dr. Marko Miletich (University of Texas at Arlington): The Gendering of Translation

6:05 p.m. | Q&A

6:15 p.m. | Dr. Melissa Wallace (University of Texas at San Antonio): You've Got Work to Do: TI Graduates as Changemakers in Policy, Research, Training and Practice

6:35 p.m. | Q&A

6:45 p.m. | Rosemary Liñán-Landa (University of Texas at Brownsville): 'Stepping Stones into the Sign Language Interpreting Profession'

7:05 p.m. | Q&A

7:15 p.m. | Concluding remarks

For more information, please contact event organizer Jorge Jimínez-Bellver at jorge.jimenezbellver at utb.edu or (956) 882-7450 or UTB's Translation and Interpreting Office at tio at utb.edu or (956) 882-7450.

An evening of Arabic literature in translation, London, 1 February 2013

For readers within reach of London, this looks like a very interesting event:


An evening of Contemporary Arabic Literature in Translation
1 February 2013
7.30 – 10.00 pm
Venue: Over-Seas House, Park Place, St James’s Street, London SW1A 1LR

The Chartered Institute of Linguists: Translating Division is delighted to announce that Peter Clark, a well-known translator of contemporary Arabic novels into English, will be introducing an evening of excerpts of contemporary Arabic writing in the original and in English translation; he will speak about both the cultural context of Arabic-into-English translation and specific technical challenges.

The London-based Sudanese poet, Al-Saddiq al-Raddi, will then talk about translating poetry, and Sarah Maguire, the Director of the Poetry Translation Centre, will read her translations of some of Al-Saddiq’s poems. The Palestinian novelist, Selma Dabbagh, lives in London and writes in English: she will speak about language choices in expressing Arab consciousness. Finally, Sarah Maguire will read a short story in Arabic by the UAE writer, Muhammad al-Murr, and Peter Clark will read his own translation.

There will be ample opportunity for members of the audience to ask the speakers questions throughout the evening, and particularly during the break.

Tea, coffee and soft drinks will be available before the evening begins and during the break.

Tickets: £20 for CIOL members / £25 for non-members – please see booking form below.

Kind regards,

The Translating Division Committee
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Venue: Over-Seas House, Park Place, St James's Street, London SW1A 1LR
See www.rosl.org.uk for more information; nearest underground station – Green Park
Time: 19.30 – 22.00
Price: £20 for CIOL members / £25 non-members
Please apply on the tear-off slip below to Julie Hobbs, Chartered Institute of Linguists, Saxon House, 48 Southwark St, London SE1 1UN, Tel: 020 7940 3144.
Applications by: Friday 18 January 2013 Places are limited, so please book early to avoid disappointment Please address any queries to Julie Hobbs at julie.hobbs[at]iol.org.uk
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