The University of Oxford, Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation, the British Comparative Literature Association, the Oxford Theatre and Performance network, the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, and St Hilda’s College are supporting the conference on 'Translation into Theatre and the Social Sciences'.
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Day 1: Friday 16th June 2017
10.00-10.30 Registration, coffee and welcome from the organisers
10.30-11.30 Lorna Hardwick (Open University) – Translating Greek drama to the modern stage: hot spots and agencies
11.30-13.00 – Translating Genres I: Tragedy
Stephe Harrop (Liverpool Hope) – Translating Tragedy’s Agonistic Space
Laura McKenzie (Durham) – ‘The Raw Dream’: Shell Shock and Anthropological Classicism in Ted Hughes’s Oedipus
Fabiana Lopes da Silveira (University of Campinas) – Brazilian Voices in the Making: Paulo Pontes and Chico Buarque’s Take on Euripides’s Medea
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00 Translating Genres II: Comedy
Erin K. Moodie (Purdue University) – Translating Metatheater in Ancient Comedy: Insights from the Social Sciences
Maddalena Giovannelli (State University of Milan) – Beyond the Exegetical Equipment: Translating Comedy on the Italian Scene
15.00-15.30 Coffee break
15.30-16.30 Carole-Anne Upton (Middlesex University London) – Ways of seeing through translation and performance
16.30-18.00 Theoretical Approaches I : The Pragmatics of Theatre Translation
Ketaki Datta (Bidhannagar Government College) – Raatmohona: Children of Midnight on the Backdrop of Social and Political Paradoxes
Robert Stock (Warwick) – Celebrity translators in the theatre – marketing tools or cultural facilitators?
Kerem Demirtaş (Ege University) – The Aesthetics of Non-Translation in Theatre
19.30-20.30 Dinner at St Hilda’s College, Vernon Harcourt Room
Organising Committee:
Cédric Ploix, Sarah Grunnah, Giovanna di Martino, Cécile Dudouyt
Click here to view Day 2: Saturday 17th June 2017
Comparative Criticism and Translation
Contact name: Cedric Ploix
Contact email: cedric.ploix@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk
Audience: Open to all
