magazines publishing translations

Just came across this very nice blog post listing magazines which publish literary translations of poetry or short fiction into English. The post has an Arabic emphasis, but many of the magazines accept translations from other languages too. Worth looking at if you're looking for a home for a Translation Project translation too.

good advice for CVs

For all those of you looking for freelance work, a very nice piece today from Jill Sommer on how to put together a CV for translation agencies. Lots of useful points, such as the length of time spent by project managers reading the CVs (mere seconds, which means that the important information has to be easy to find) and the importance of including keywords for filesearching.

ES-EN poetry translation workshop, London, 22 September

Just a quick last-minute post to our readers in London to flag up a Spanish to English poetry translation workshop taking place tomorrow, organised by the Poetry Translation Centre at SOAS in London. The workshop will be led by David Shook and will work on poems by Marcelo Ensema Nsang, from Equatorial Guinea, the only Spanish-speaking country in Africa.

Who knew?

These workshops sound wonderful - some day I hope to make it up to the metropolis for one.

Conference call for papers: Invisible Presences, April 2011

So many lovely conferences, so little time...  D:

Invisible Presences: Translation, Dramaturgy, and Performance
Queen's University Belfast/ Out of the Wings
Contact: k.taroff at qub.ac.uk

‘Invisible Presences’ is presented under the aegis of Out of the Wings, an AHRC-funded project exploring Spanish theatre in English translation, in association with the Melbourne Dramaturgies Project, the Translation, Adaptation, and Dramaturgy Working Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research, and the Dramaturgs’ Network

Drama and Film Centre
Queen’s University Belfast
18-20 April 2011.

This international conference will explore the dramaturgical processes of translation in performance practice, whether across language and culture or the translation of ideas into material production. Rather than seeing the processes of writing (whether collaborative or single-authored), translation, rehearsal, production, and audience reception as separate and discrete, the conference will engage approaches that view the process as more of a continuum, one that is perpetually at work. In this way the conference offers the opportunity for dialogue between contemporary practitioners, both translators and theatre makers, and for new insights into dramaturgy and translation that seek to map the growing convergence between theatre practice and translation.

Areas for discussion include, but are not limited to:

● Translation and its metaphorical apprehension of text
● Translation and its audiences
● Translation and the contingency of performance
● Collaborative translation processes
● The limits of translation
● Dramaturgy as translation/ translational process
● Visual theatre: dramaturgies and translations of light, sound, space
● Technology: new relationships with audiences in online productions
● The dramaturgical process in different contexts: Case studies from practitioners and scholars exploring the issues and particularities of each context, such as community arts, theatre for young people, cross-art collaboration processes and facilitation, ‘postdramatic’ dramaturgies, queer dramaturgies, disability arts, collaborative writing processes, etc.

The conference will feature:

● A range of eminent keynote speakers, including Mary Luckhurst, Lawrence Venuti, Peter Eckersall and Paul Monaghan.
● Practical workshops exploring issues of dramaturgy and translation
● Performances
● Panel sessions
● Round table discussions

Proposals addressing the themes of the conference are invited in the forms of:

20 minute paper presentation
2-hour workshop

Please submit proposals of 300-500 words, with 150-word biography, by 30 September 2010, to the organisers:
Alyson Campbell: a.e.campbell at qub.ac.uk
David Johnston: d.johnston at qub.ac.uk
Kurt Taroff: k.taroff at qub.ac.uk

Translation event in Rome, 8 October

A very interesting-looking event for anyone near Rome:

It's a question that applies to other languages too: how are our languages changing through translation? Possibly less relevant to the English language, whose attitude to translation has long been that it is better to give than to receive...
More information about the 'progetto casa delle traduzioni' here.

Tralogy conference, Paris, March 2011

Thanks to Sam B. for pointing out this interesting-looking conference which may interest our readers living in France. The deadline for paper proposals is 10 November 2010.

Translation Careers and Technologies: Convergence Points for the Future
Paris - March 3th & 4th 2011

Call for Papers

We no longer translate as we did 50, 20 or even 10 years ago. What form will the translation process take 10, 20 or 50 years from now? What will be the demand for translation and what kind of tools, what kind of approach, will we need to meet that demand? Who will be the translators – assuming they will still be called translators – of tomorrow? What skills and disciplines will they need, on what concepts will their work be based and what form will their training take? What can technology do today and what will it be able to do tomorrow? How far has research in the field of machine translation and computer-assisted translation come? If there is to be a partnership between human beings and machines, what approach to human translation will it be based on, and how will it progress?

One thing is for sure: the process of shaping the future is under way, and will move forward along the fault line that divides human translation, a translation activity that is, by nature, unsystematic, and the power of computer processing, which is, by definition, systematic. It would be impossible even to attempt to answer these questions satisfactorily without seeking, at international level, the opinions of the key protagonists, namely: translators, trainers and manufacturers of translation technologies, and researchers in these areas. We feel that such an interdisciplinary approach is the only way to overcome fears, stereotypes and narrow-minded opinion; we must address the emergence of a shared working culture by examining economic, technical, ethical and organisational issues.

We are therefore calling for papers on the way forward in translation careers and technologies, with the overall objective of taking stock of this rapidly changing world and examining how it is likely to develop. Our intention is to establish a regular forum for reflection and for professional, intellectual and scientific debate. This will take the form of a biennial international symposium intended to provide perspective on current European and world discourse, with the emphasis on a particular guest country, which in 2011 will be Canada. The aim is to provide a space in which:

* developers and researchers can gain an understanding of translators’ needs,
* translators can find out about the development of machine technologies, see where they fit in and express the profession’s expectations in relation to the changes taking place, and
* trainers can meet translators and researchers face to face and mark out the knowledge paths to which the training of future translators will be geared.