OCCT HT2021 Week 3 Updates
In our next Discussion Group session, on Monday Week 4 (8 February), 1-2pm, we will launch Dr Daniele Nunziata’s new book, Colonial and Postcolonial Cyprus, in conversation with Dr Eleni Philippou. The preface of the book is available online on the Springer website for those wishing to read it before the launch: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-58236-4#toc (the PDF under Front Matter). This event will require registration: please consult the website directly for further information.
In Week 3, Raphael Lyne and Marzia Baltrami spoke on the theme of Unnatural Pluralities for the Fiction and Other Minds seminar.
EVENTS
1. Queen's College Translation Exchange
We’re excited to announce that our next Book Club meeting will be on Wednesday 10th March at 8pm (GMT). We’ll be discussing Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida’s book, That Hair (Tin House), translated from Portuguese. The translator, Eric M. B. Becker, will be joining us for our discussion, taking place on Zoom. Blackwell’s are currently offering a discount on the title on their website, with free UK delivery.
In the weeks leading up to our meeting, we’d love to hear your thoughts while reading the book on social media. There is a Facebook group for the International Book Club, or you can follow us on Twitter and use the hashtag #IntBookClub.
To register for the event, see here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0uce2oqD4uHtV0Cfp5_b88dfqRW8UQNcns
2. Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation
A Gap in the Clouds: Translating Medieval Japanese Poetry
5:30-6:30pm, Thursday 11 February
Please join us for the launch of a new translation of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, one of the most important poetry collections in Japan. Compiled ca. 1235 by Fujiwara no Teika, it is a collection of 100 poems by 100 poets, composed by emperors and empresses, courtiers, high priests, ladies-in-waiting and soldier-calligraphers over almost 400 years. This translation, A Gap in the Clouds, is a collaboration between James Hadley, Director of the MPhil in Literary Translation at Trinity College, and poet Nell Regan. James and Nell will be joining us to discuss the background to the collection, how they went about translating the poems, and will read some of their favourites from the collection. For more information and to book a ticket, please click here.
Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg
6:30-7:30pm, Tuesday 16 February
Our book club will be discussing the most recent translation of Natalia Ginzburg's masterful autobiographical novel, Family Lexicon, from the Italian by Jenny McPhee. We will be joined by Prof. Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin, translator, writer and former Head of Italian at Trinity College, and also by the book's award-winning translator and writer, Jenny McPhee. Booking essential, please click here.
Encounters in Greek and Irish Literature
1-2pm, Thursday 18 February
Please join editor Paschalis Nikolaou of the Ionian University, Corfu, and writer Deirdre Madden of Trinity College for a lunchtime discussion about Nikolaou's most recent book, Encounters in Greek and Irish Literature. This book brings together literary experts and contemporary novelists from both linguistic and cultural traditions, and looks at the role translation plays as an integral part of this dialogue. For more information and tickets, please click here.
3. The Global Arab and Arab American MLA Forum invites proposals for the following panels at the MLA Convention in Washington, DC (6-9 January 2022):
Arab Multilingual Diasporas: Memory, Identity, and Resistance
Arab global and local multilingual narratives (memoirs, historical fiction, etc...) focusing on nostalgia, adaptation, resistance, memory, identity. Bio and 300-word abstract by 3/15/2021 to Rasha Chatta, rc49@soas.ac.uk
Multilingual-Multicultural Activism against “Pro-American/ Patriotic Education”
Proposals exploring activist, antiracist, pro-social justice work challenging White House 1776 Commission report attacking “anti-American curriculum,” liberal thought and social equality. Bio and 300-word abstracts by 3/15/2021 to Ammar Naji, anaji@coloradocollege.edu
Multilingualism in the Global Mediterranean
Interplay of Arabic and European languages in the literary and cultural production of the Mediterranean in light of the region’s long-standing history of mobility, exchange, convergence… Bio, 300-word abstracts by March 15; etamalet@tulane.edu and adrissi@purdue.edu.
4. Gender and Transnational Reception. Mapping the Translation, Circulation and Recognition of Women’s Writings in the 20th - and 21st Century
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23359
26 March 2021; 17:00 – 19:00 GMT; Online
Speakers: Prof Claudia Pazos-Alonso (University of Oxford, UK): “The Transnational Dissemination and Reception of Portuguese Poetry: from Florbela Espanca to Ana Luisa Amaral”
Dr Tiziana De Rogatis (Università per Stranieri di Siena, Italy): “Transnational Storytelling and the Global Novel: Elena Ferrante, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Margaret Atwood”
Organisers: Dr Alberica Bazzoni (ICI Berlin, Germany); Dr Caterina Paoli (University of Warwick, UK)
Organised in collaboration with the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing (CCWW) and partially funded by the British Academy and the Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA) this research seminar explores the transnational reception of 20th- and 21st century literary texts by women (where “woman” is understood beyond cis-normative categories). How are processes of literary reception gendered and transnationalised? How do transnational networks support the circulation of texts by women? What are the processes that intervene in the recognition or misrecognition of their artistic value, in their own country and abroad? Gender still plays a crucial role in the ways in which a work of art circulates and is received, as the construction and recognition of artistic value is deeply influenced by social structures and the hierarchies that permeates them. On the other hand, the transnational dimension of feminist struggles and thought fosters the circulation of works by women beyond their country of origin, so that they often meet popular success in other countries. Furthermore, since the second half of the 19th century, feminist networks of translators, publishers and intellectuals have worked tirelessly to promote and enable the circulation of works by women. This seminar investigates the gendered promotion and reception of poetic and narrative works by women on a transnational level.
The event will be in English.
Info: gender.reception2020@gmail.com
This free event will be held online, at 17:00 GMT. Please note that you will need to register in advance to receive the online event joining link. https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23359
5. Reflections on World Literature and the Resistance to Theory
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23763
18 March 2021
4.00-5.30pm GMT
Online Seminar
Part of the Convocation Seminars in World Literature and Translation
Co-convened with LINKS (London Intercollegiate Network for Comparative Studies)
Speaker: Galin Tihanov (QMUL)
Galin Tihanov is the George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London. He has held visiting appointments at universities in Europe, North and South America, and Asia. He is the author of five books, including, most recently, The Birth and Death of Literary Theory: Regimes of Relevance in Russia and Beyond (Stanford UP, 2019). Tihanov's research interests range from Russian, German, and Central-European intellectual history to world literature, cultural theory, cosmopolitanism, and exile. He is elected member of Academia Europaea, past president of the ICLA Committee on Literary Theory, and member of the Executive Board of the Institute for World Literature at Harvard University; he is also honorary scientific advisor to the Institute of Foreign Literatures, CASS (Beijing). He is currently completing Cosmopolitanism: A Very Short Introduction, commissioned by Oxford UP.
This free event will be held online, at 16:00 GMT. Please note that you will need to register in advance to receive the online event joining link. Click on the event page below to register.
