The programme for OCCT’s virtual workshop, Fictions of Retranslations: Retranslating Language and Style in Prose Fiction, is now available here: https://www.occt.ox.ac.uk/fictions-retranslations-retranslating-language-and-style-prose-fiction. If you would like to attend as an external participant, please contact anna.saroldi@ell.ox.ac.uk and rowan.anderson@ell.ox.ac.uk.
In our Week 4 Discussion Group session, we enjoyed the launch of Dr Daniele Nunziata’s new book, Colonial and Postcolonial Cyprus, in conversation with Dr Eleni Philippou.
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. Are you an Early Career Academic in Modern Languages? The UCML Early Career Academics Special Interest Group kindly invites you to join us for a monthly coffee morning chat on the second Thursday of each month from 10.30 to 11.30! UCML (University Council of Modern Languages) is a unifying voice for Modern Languages in the UK, and we are a small section of the organisation with the sole purpose of supporting Early Career Academics in any shape or form. All coffee sessions will take place on Zoom and participants can join for a short time in between classes, for a break from research, or for the full hour. It will be an opportunity for ECAs to meet and create a network informally. While primarily aimed at ECAs, the sessions are open to all postgraduates and colleagues!
Please see below details to join the sessions!
Every month on the Second Thu, until Jul 8, 2021, 6 occurrence(s)
Feb 11, 2021 10:30 AM
Mar 11, 2021 10:30 AM
Apr 8, 2021 10:30 AM
May 13, 2021 10:30 AM
Jun 10, 2021 10:30 AM
Jul 8, 2021 10:30 AM
Join Zoom Meeting
https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/93727281359?pwd=elJTanZzQklPSlU1UjdZc...
Meeting ID: 937 2728 1359 Passcode: 574935
3. Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing
Online Workshop
Friday, 30 April 2021
Covid and the Woman Writer
The sudden change to human life as a result of the current pandemic has yet to be understood, and it will no doubt take years to comprehend its impact upon the human subject. Women in particular may have been impacted more severely as a result of increased workloads and adjustments to working from home due to lockdown. Both creative and academic women writers may be particularly well-placed to capture the impact of the experience of Covid on the human psyche and on quotidian experience. There are manifold avenues to explore, and this workshop aims to do so through facilitating an exchange of experiences and ideas. Contributors include writers and academics from the UK and around the globe.
The programme comprises four panels (below) and ends with a conversation between author Annett Gröschner and translator Katy Derbyshire:
- Capacity to Work/Publish/Create
- Personal Testimony/Creative Contribution
- Studying Women Writers
- Translation
Programme [PDF]
Workshop Organisers: Caragh Wells (Bristol) and Godela Weiss-Sussex (IMLR)
Participation in the workshop is free and open to anyone interested. Advance booking is essential. Booking closes 29 April 2021.
Booking now open: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23859
This event is organised under the auspices of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing at the IMLR.
4. Launch of a new network.
Fringe Urban Narratives: Peripheries, Identities, Intersections is an interdisciplinary network that offers a platform for researchers and artists interested in the cultural processes of imagining and narrating urban experiences from the margins. More information on who we are and on our goals here: urbanfringes.com
As part of our regular activities, we organize a yearly symposium/conference. More information on the forthcoming one here: Urban (Im)mobilities and Borderland Narratives (Universidad de Alcalá, 14-15 October 2021).
We also encourage members to participate in our theory-reading sessions. The FRINGE Reading Group meets every six weeks and provides a relaxed environment for participants to refresh their theoretical knowledge and to stay in touch with scholars from other disciplines. More information is available here: https://www.urbanfringes.com/activities.
