CfP: Authorial Translation in Renaissance Europe

Authorial Translation in Renaissance Europe

Deadline: 15 May 2015

Organizers: Dr William Barton (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute, Innsbruck); Dr Sara Olivia Miglietti (Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick)

This panel, or series of panels, aims to investigate the forms and strategies of authorial translation in the long Renaissance (c. 1350-1650). By ‘authorial translation’ we intend to designate a constellation of practices ranging from self- translation proper (see e.g. Cordingley 2013, Deneire 2013, Turchetti 2013, Turchetti 2015) to the activity of ‘“strong” translators who placed their own unmistakable imprint on the works they translated’ (Bernofsky 2005:x). In the latter sense, authorial translation is not necessarily defined ‘by the translator being an author in his own right, but by his active shaping of the translated textin a particular direction’ (ibid.). By encouraging reflection on this theme, we aim to draw attention to a crucial, though still understudied, aspect of Renaissance culture, and to establish a dialogue between intellectual historians, linguists, and literary theorists concerning the character of Renaissance translation practices.

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While studies such as these have greatly advanced our knowledge of the forms and strategies of Renaissance translation, as well as of the social and biographical profiles of Renaissance translators (see e.g. recent studies of John Florio by Pfister 2005, Pirillo 2013), substantial work still remains to be done in order to clarify the complex relationship between translation and authorship throughout the late medieval and early modern period—a time that witnessed profound transformations to the very notion of ‘author’ (see Brunn 2001). By focusing on the theory and practice of Renaissance authorial translation, we hope to contribute, on the one hand, to our knowledge of Renaissance translation practices, and, more broadly, to the on-going theoretical debate about the nexus between translation and authorship (see e.g. Venuti 2008 and Pym 2010).

We welcome abstracts for 20-minute presentations on the following themes:

• authorial translation: definition and case studies
• self-translation: forms, strategies, related issues (linguistic: Latin andvernacular, bilingualism, linguistic choice and the expressive potentialities of different languages, etc.; social and cultural: intended audiences, impact of censorship, etc.; literary: authorial revision, rewriting, authorial intention, etc.)
• supervised translation: status and case studies
• traducteur/traditeur: translation as a form of rewriting/authorship

Please send a 150-word abstract (inclusive of keywords) and a 300-word curriculum vitae to s.o.miglietti@warwick.ac.uk by 15 May 2015 (sample CVs are available on the RSA website: http://www.rsa.org/?page=submissionguidelines). 

For more information and the complete call for papers, please click here 

Conference: La traduction littéraire comme création, 20-21 mai 2015

Self-translation will be a topic at the conference La traduction littéraire comme création, taking place from 20-21 May in Avignon, France.

• 20. May at 10am
  Lucia QUAQUARELLI, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre : Traduction, re-traduction, auto-traduction, hétérolinguisme dans la littérature postcoloniale italienne : quelques réflexions

For further information on the program of the conference, please click here.

Conference Europe en mouvement

Self-translation will be at topic of a talk given at the conference Europe en mouvement: Lieux, Passage taking place at Cerise, France, 02.06.2015-09.06.2015.

Abstract of the talk sheduled for Friday afternon:

Stefan WILLER: Les autotraductions des frères Humboldt
Avec une autotraduction, un auteur devient le traducteur de son propre texte. Bien qu'il s'agisse d'un phénomène particulier en apparence, il est au contraire très important pour les transmissions du savoir en Europe et dans le monde. Dans mon intervention, je vais éclaircir le rôle de Guillaume et d'Alexandre de Humboldt à cet égard. Les deux frères, qui écrivaient en allemand et en français pendant toute leur carrière de chercheur, de savant et d'homme politique, ont traduit à maintes reprises et dans les deux directions leurs propres textes. L'analyse d'un tel "entre-deux-langues" (comme l'a appelé l'autotraducteur Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt) permet de discerner avec précision les convergences et les tensions qui existent entre deux langues, deux langages ou même deux styles de pensée.

For more information on the conference please click here.

Update Bibliography on self-translation

The bibliography on self-translation has been updated. A new section "Self-translators on self-translation" has been included.
To access the pdf-file, please click here. The next update is scheduled for July 2015.

Cfp: Voix de la traduction Traduire, transformer, reformer (Bologne, les 15 et 16 octobre 2015)

Les mouvements transnationaux d’idées et d’œuvres, l’expérience des écritures postcoloniales, ainsi que l’affirmation de pratiques cross-médiales et collaboratives de la narration non seulement forcent les frontières entre les traditions nationales, les disciplines et les médias (et leurs dynamiques habituelles d’échange), mais mettent en échec toute hiérarchie entre l’original et ses « traductions » (inter- o intralinguistiques, intersémiotiques), sapent de l’intérieur la norme monolingue et compromettent l’idée de traduction comme transfert, passage, pont, nous demandant de repenser certaines notions traductives centrales telles que langue de départ/langue d’arrivée, fidélité, respect, transparence, équivalence, lisibilité, différence… 

De plus, l’acte traductif est un acte fortement conditionné, inséré dans un paysage culturel profondément hiérarchisé, traversé par des impératifs discursifs, productifs, commerciaux et politiques très rigides. Et il est également, aujourd’hui, le lieu (à la fois métaphorique et procédural) de la création, de l’imagination et de l’espoir (Martha Nussbaum) ; le lieu à partir duquel redessiner (configurer) les rapports entre les langues et les pays ouvrant vers un univers hétérolingue qui est la figure de l’explosion des frontières entre les langues et la marque de l’urgence de déconstruire et transgresser l’idée que la différence distingue et divise. 

Le colloque Voix de la traduction. Traduire, transformer, reformer entend se proposer comme lieu de réflexion sur les transformations en cours, appelant les spécialistes à s’interroger sur quelques questions centrales telles que : 

• Esthétique, éthique et politique de la traduction 
• Traduction comme création 
• Traduction comme métaphore du tiers-lieu 
• Traduction et littérature postcoloniale 
• Traduction et hétérolinguisme 
• Autotraduction, traduction sans original 
• Convergence médiatique et pratiques traductives 
• Traduction collaborative 
• Traduction comme lieu de l’accessibilité (langue des signes…) 

Le colloque sera bouclé par un Laboratoire de traduction collaborative ouvert aux étudiants du Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Traduzione Specializzata et aux doctorants. 

Consignes 

Les propositions, de 300 caractères maximum, sont à envoyer par mail, et avant le 30 mars 2015, à Lucia Quaquarelli / lquaquarelli@u-paris10.fr Licia Reggiani / licia.reggiani@unibo.it 

La confirmation de l’acceptation sera communiquée, toujours par mail, avant le 30 avril 2015. 

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Projet scientifique: Lucia Quaquarelli, Licia Reggiani 

Comité scientifique international: Chiara Elefante, Danielle Londei, Christophe Mileschi, Myriam Suchet, 

Organisation: Chiara Denti, Gianna Tarquini

Source: http://www.fabula.org/actualites/voix-de-la-traductiontraduire-transformer-reformer_67413.php 

NEW Special Issue on Self-Translation

The special issue on self-translation of the journal Glottopol has just been published.
Glottopol issue N°25 directed by Christian Lagarde is entitled: L'autotraduction : une perspective sociolinguistique and discusses self-translation from a sociolinguistical point of view. 
The 18 contributions are written in French or Spanish.
The content is available online for free. You can download the whole issue or single articles on the website of the journal.

• Christian Lagarde : Des langues minorées aux « langues mineures » : autotraduction littéraire et sociolinguistique, une confrontation productive – 2
• Rainier Grutman : L’autotraduction : de la galerie de portraits à la galaxie des langues. –  14
• Christian Lagarde  : De l’individu au global : les enjeux psycho-sociolinguistiques de l’autotraduction littéraire. – 31
• Julio-César Santoyo : Consideraciones acerca del estatus actual de la autotraducción en la Península Ibérica. – 47
• Xosé Manuel Dasilva : Los horizontes lingüísticos del autotraductor. Una visión a partir del contexto de Galicia. – 59
• Elizabete Manterola Agirrezabalaga : La autotraducción en el contexto vasco : entre distancia interlingüistica y la constitución de un campo literario nacional transfronterizo. – 71
• Katixa Dolharé Çaldumbide : L’autotraduction comme résistance aux idéologies aliénantes et voie vers la paix : l’exemple de l’œuvre d’Itxaro Borda au Pays basque nord (Iparralde). – 88
• David ar Rouz : De l’autotraduction à la traduction de soi : éléments de réflexion bretonne. –103
• Erwan Hupel : Le cœur et l’esprit : déchirements et stratégies d’autotraduction chez quelques auteurs bretons. – 124
• Joan-Claudi Forêt  : L’auteur occitan et son double. – 136
• Turo Rautaoja et Yves Gambier : L’autotraduction : une pratique ancienne, un concept ambigu. Le cas du Suédo-Finlandais Karl Ekman. – 151
• Peggy Pacini : L’autotraduction chez Grégoire Chabot : médiation, transmission, survie d’une communauté et d’une littérature de l’exigüité. – 163
• Michel Calapodis et Elisa Hatzidaki : Du bilinguisme littéraire à la diglossie socio-historique : le cas de l’œuvre de Vassilis Alexakis. – 178
• María Recuenco Peñalver : Vassilis Alexakis ou le paradoxe systématique de l’autotraduction.  – 187
• Olga Anokhina  : Les traductions vers l’anglais de Vladimir Nabokov : traduction ou autotraduction ? –198
• Helena Tanqueiro et Meritxell Soria : Análisis traductológico de referentes culturales en La testa perduta di Damasceno Monteiro de Antonio Tabucchi. –211
• Chiara Montini: S’autotraduire en traduisant les mots : la vie entre deux langues de Dolores Prato. –223
• Delfina Cabrera : Ecrire en « demi-langue ». Multilinguisme et autotraduction dans les premiers scénarios de Manuel Puig. –235

To access the journal issue or the single articles, please click here.

Conference Self-translation Global and Local

I just came home from a very interesting and inspiring international conference on self-translation which took place at Vitoria-Gasteiz in the Basque Country on 26th February.

Here is an overview of the talks that have been given:

• Eva Gentes: Research on Self-Translation. A General Overview
• Xosé Manuel Dasilva: The Phenomenon of Self-Translation. Typology of Self-Translation
• Garazi Arrula & Elizabete Manterola: The Phenomenon of Self-Translation in Basque Literature
• Ibon Uribarri: Self-Translation Within a Diglossic Environment
• Frederick Verbeke: An Overview of Literary Self-Translation in Belgium
• Rainer Guldin: Self-Translation in Switzerland
• Agnes Pisanski Peterlin: Self-Translation in the Academic Field
• Nebojša Radić: Criss-Crossing the Language Boundaries as an Expression of the Plurilingual Self
• Ur Apalategi: The Self-Translating Author in Conflict with Diglossic Context. The Polygraphy of Iban Zaldua
• Aurélia Arkotxa: La autotraducción como medio de creación en la génesis de Mimodramak eta Ikonoak de JM Lekuona
• Olga Anokhina: Vladmir Nabokov:¿traducción o autotraducción?

Conference: Multiculturalism and Multilingualism in Canada

Self-translation will be a topic at the symposium Multiculturalism and Multilingualism in Canada taking place 21-22 February 2015 at the University of Ottawa, Canada.
Two panels on Sunday 22 February are dedicated to self-translation with the following contributions:

11:15 – 12:45 Panel 5 Self-translation and the Canadian mosaic/L’autotraduction et la mosaïque canadienne I

• Rainier Grutman (University of Ottawa), Self-translation in Canada: a Multilingual Affair 
• Patricia Godbout (Université de Sherbrooke), Une autotraduction cleptomane? Le cas du Rêve de Kamalmouk de Marius Barbeau 
• Tiziana Nannavecchia (University of Ottawa), Searching for a place to call home: self-translation and the literary experience of Italian migrants in multilingual Canada

13:45 – 15:15 Panel 6 Self-translation and the Canadian mosaic/L’autotraduction et la mosaïque canadienne II 

• Cecilia Foglia (Université de Montréal), Autotraduire la « culture immigrée » : Marco Micone, une étude de cas 
• Hugh Hazelton (Concordia University), Reclaiming the Text: Self-Translation Among Spanish and Portuguese-Speaking Writers of Canada 
• Trish van Bolderen (University of Ottawa), Huston, we have a problem… (or What on earth is “Canadian self-translation” supposed to mean?)

To see the full programme please click here.

Call for posters. 5/27/2015. The Fictions of Translation. Canada.

Self-translation is one of the possible topics for a poster presentation at the international conference to be held May 27-29, 2015, at Concordia University, in Montreal, Canada.

Deadline for submission: January 30, 2015

Poster Presentations
The organizing committee of Transfiction 3 is seeking undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students as well as postdocs for poster presentations during the conference. A poster presentation involves producing an academic poster that translates your research into an engaging visual format, and presenting that information informally to conference attendees during specific periods such as lunchtime and coffee breaks. Posters give you an opportunity to interact one on one with conference attendees by giving a short talk on your topic and answering any questions. Your poster should contain the title of your presentation, a summary of your topic, relevant quotes, images, examples or illustrations of your key points, and any other information that helps you communicate your ideas clearly and fully.

Interested participants are invited to submit 300-word proposals for poster presentations by January 30, 2015, to transfiction@concordia.ca. The proposals should be attached in Word, with the file name in the following format: authorname.doc, and “poster presentation” indicated in the subject line of the e-mail. (Please include your contact information in the body of your e-mail, not in the file.)

Date of notification regarding acceptance of poster presentations: February 15, 2015.

Conference Theme
This conference is a follow-up to the first Transfiction conference on “Fictional Translators” (Vienna 2011) and its sequel, Beyond Transfiction, on “Translators and (Their) Authors” (Tel Aviv 2013). Transfiction 3 will continue to explore the complex relationship and shifting borders between writing and translation, in the past and at present. Using historical perspectives and current theoretical frameworks, participants will reflect on the continuing presence of the theme of translation and translators in fiction, drama, and other art forms such as cinema, on the often problematic interface between writers and translators, and the evolving status of translation in relation to so-called original work.

Suggested topics may include, but are not limited to:

· The figure of the translator and the theme of translation: is this primarily a (post)modern phenomenon or one that can be traced back to earlier times?

· Historical perspectives: shifting attitudes to the status of translation and the role of the translator; evolving perceptions of the authorial voice and the translator’s visibility.

· Fictionalized practices of translation such as pseudotranslation.

· Self-translation: can it really be called “translation” or is it a form of (re)writing?

· Translation and hybridity: dialects/diglossia/polyglossia across expatriate and diasporic communities, and their implications for writing and translation.

· Translation in/and/of modernism: Joyce, Pound, Beckett, etc.

· Intra-cultural or inter-semiotic forms of translation: for example, novels adapted for the cinema or stage, and graphic novels.

· New developments in a globalized, technological world: what are the implications for translations, translators, and relations between authors and translators of such phenomena as crowdsourcing, collaborative translation, and open translation?

· The “translation turn” in the social sciences and humanities: is the use of “translation” a metaphor, a fiction, or a legitimate epistemological practice?

Conference Languages
The languages of the conference will be English and French.

Note: The conference is being planned in cooperation with the Canadian Association for Translation Studies, whose annual conference will be held in Ottawa the following week, from June 1 to 3, 2015, on the theme “Literary Translation and Canada.” Scholars may wish to participate in both conferences.

Fee
Early registration fee for students (before March 31, 2015): CAN$75
Fee after March 31, 2015: CAN$100

Local Organizing Committee
Judith Woodsworth, Chair / Patricia Godbout, Co-chair / Gillian Lane-Mercier, Co-chair
Danièle Marcoux / Carmen Ruschiensky / Christine York

Scientific Committee
Véronique Béghain (Université Bordeaux Montaigne) / Nitsa Ben-Ari (Tel Aviv University)
Patricia Godbout (Université de Sherbrooke) / Gillian Lane-Mercier (McGill University)
Xuanmen Luo (Tsinghua University) / Judith Woodsworth (Concordia University)

Information and further details:
For all correspondence about the conference please use the e-mail address: transfiction@concordia.ca .

Sébastien Doubinsky on self-translating

Sébastien Doubinsky, born in France but living in Denmark, speaks about his experience of self-translating his novels in an interview with the arts and literary journal The Missing Slate:

I have translated myself—and others—many times and know well that perfect translation doesn’t exist. It can be seen as a tragedy, a communication failure, but actually I consider this a chance—a chance of freedom, of the irreconcilable space between cultures—and the mutual respect it implies. So if you read closely and compare the two versions of the same novel I’ve written, I think you might be shocked by the liberties I am taking with the original text! But that is because the second one becomes a new original, if you want, another text altogether. (The Missing Slate 2015)

To read the complete interview please click here.

Conference "Lyrik transkulturell"

Self-translation will be a topic at the international conference Lyrik transkulturell taking place 21.-24th January at the University Innsbruck in Austria.

• Samstag, 24.01.2015 (Un)Übersetzbarkeit
  09:00–09:45 Barbara Siller: Lyrik in zwei Sprachen – monolinguale Rezeption? Selbstübersetzung als literarische Handlungsform am Beispiel Gerhard Kofler

To see the complete program of the conference please click here.