Autotraduzione. Obiettivi, strategie, testi

New volume on self-translation published. Autotraduzione. Obiettivi, strategie, testi edited by Bruno Berni e Alessandra D’Atena (Isbn 978-88-95868-35-6).

Content
Bruno Berni – Alessandra D’Atena,  Introduzione, 7-15
Simona Anselmi,  Self-translators’ teloi, 17- 36
Bruno Berni, «Pura pedanteria e annotazioni inutili». Holberg traduttore di Holberg, 37-54
Alessandra D’Atena, « Nil pensar – apauco precar» / «Gar nichts denken  – beinah beten». Studio della poesia Paz / Friede  di Stefan George, 55-79
Rossana Sebellin,  L’autotraduzione teatrale (e il suo paratesto) nella  poetica di Samuel Beckett, 81-94
Lucia Salvato,  Scelte linguistiche e strategie comunicative nell’au-totraduzione tedesca: Ruth Klüger e Wolfgang Hildesheimer a con-  fronto, 95-121
Eva Gentes, Transmigration und Selbstübersetzung – Linda Olsson und Miroslav Penkov, 122-144.

Writing Bilingually in Early Modern Europe: A Symposium on Philosophical and Scientific Self-Translation

The symposium "Writing Bilingually in Early Modern Europe: A Symposium on Philosophical and Scientific Self-Translation" took place on 14th June at The Warburg Institute.

Organizers: David Lines (University of Warwick) & Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute).

Co-sponsored by: Society for French Studies; Society for Renaissance Studies; British Society for the History of Science; Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick.

Self-translation (the practice of translating one’s own works from one language into another) was a widespread phenomenon in early modern Europe, yet one that still remains largely uncharted in modern scholarship. While there have been isolated studies of important figures – mainly literary authors such as Leon Battista Alberti, Joachim Du Bellay or John Donne – we still do not know enough about the activities of self-translators in other domains, including those of philosophy and science. ‘Writing Bilingually in Early Modern Europe’ will begin to fill this gap by investigating the practice of self-translation in fields such as natural and moral philosophy, medicine, politics, and religion. Prominent European thinkers from this period will be studied comparatively in order to identify similarities and idiosyncrasies in their respective self-translative practices, but also with a view to addressing more general questions: What functions did self-translation fulfil in producing and disseminating knowledge among different reading publics? To what extent did self-translators engage theoretically with contemporary debates on language (questione della lingua, querelle de la langue)? Why did they translate themselves, for whom, and in what contexts (institutional sites, intellectual networks, economy of the printed book)? And how did self-translating affect the reception of their works?

Session 1. Chair: Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute)  

11:15 - 11.45  Sietske Fransen (Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome), ‘Translating a Bilingual Medical Author: The Case of J.B. van Helmont’  

11:45 - 12.15 Mario Turchetti (Université de Fribourg), ‘The Bilingual Political Vocabulary of Jean Bodin's République / De republica’ 

12:15 - 12.45 Discussion 

12:45 - 14.00  Lunch break    

Session 2. Chair: John Tresch (Warburg Institute)

14.00 - 14.30 Dario Tessicini (Durham University), ‘Giordano Bruno’s Cosmological Poems between Self-Translation and Reuse’ 

14:30 - 15.00 Cecilia Muratori (University of Warwick), ‘The Physiognomic Corpus of Giovan Battista Della Porta: A Web of Translations and Translators’ 

15:00 - 15.30  Discussion 

15:30 - 15.45  Tea and coffee 

Session 3. Chair: David Lines (University of Warwick)  

15:45 - 16.30 Jean-Louis Fournel (Université Paris 8), ‘Tradursi o non tradursi: Tommaso Campanella e le frontiere dell’autotraduzione’ (‘To Self-Translate or Not to Self-Translate: Tommaso Campanella and the Boundaries of Self-Translation’) [NB: this paper will be delivered in Italian] 

16:30 - 17.00  Discussion and concluding remarks by David Lines (University of Warwick) 

Source: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/event/17894

Talk "Self-Translation: Between Minor Literature, Bilingualism and Subsequence"

Sigrid Weigel will give a talk on "Self-Translation: Between Minor Literature, Bilingualism and Subsequence" on Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 7 pm in Berlin, Germany. 

Abstract:
Several concepts of self-translation – such as rewriting, re-enactment, reproduction – came up in the translation discourse of recent decades, whereby “cultural translation” has become the chief cliché. This shifted the emphasis away from exile to migration and bilingualism. Thus, the translation work itself and the view of possible linguistically hegemonic relationships have faded into the background along with the question of whether the work to be translated was written in the author’s first or second language. What happens when authors translate themselves? What is the difference between discursive and poetic writing? What does the subsequence of self-translation do with the writing? Weigel discusses the discomfort of self-translation in “minor literatures,” the emblematic figure of the “translated man,” the echo of the translation and the specter of the “original,” comments on Yoko Tawada and the exophony at the threshold between pictogram and alphabet and refers to Hannah Arendt to explore remembering, repeating, working through a translation without the original.

Source and more information: 
https://www.hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/veranstaltung/p_153779.php

Conference on self-translation 22-23 May 2019 Nice, France

The conference (Auto)traduction et communication des imaginaires à l'heure de la rebabélisation du monde is taking place in Nice, France, 22-23 May 2019. The conference has been organized by Michaël Oustinoff , Anna Lushenkova Foscolo and Paul Rasse.
Conference place: Campus Carlone, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis


Mercredi 22 mai 2019
14h00-14h30 : Ouverture du colloque
14h30 > 16h15 : De la traduction à l’autotraduction : enjeux épistémologiques
• Rainier Grutman, L’autotraduction vue par l’autotraductologie
• Simona Anselmi, Self-translatorstranslating others and re-translating themselves
• Olga Voltchek, Sergueï Fokine, Quand l’autotraduction ne se réduit pas au jeu des langues dominante & langue dominée : le cas de Nicolas Goumilev (1886-1921), poète-acméiste et théoricien de la traduction poétique
• Stéphan Lambadaris, Rebabélisation de la langue chez Beckett: Oh les beaux jours!
16h15 > 16h30 Pause
16h30 > 17h45 : (Auto)traduction, communication et transferts des savoirs
• Christian Vicente, La communication médecin-patient est-elle une forme d’(auto)traduction ? Comment dire presque la même chose dans la langue spécialisée de la médecine
• Josep Miquel Ramis, Self-translation in Catalan press: invisibility and postediting
• Olivier Arifon, La traduction du bouddhisme en Occident : un Guru du 8eme siècle et ses médiaux
sociaux
17h45 > 18h00 Pause
18h00> 19h00 : (Auto)traduction, communication et rebabélisation du monde (Table ronde)
• Sergueï Fokine, Université nationale d’Économie de Saint-Pétersbourg, Russie
• Rainier Grutman, Université d’Ottawa, Canada
• Anna Lushenkova Foscolo, Université Lyon III, laboratoire MARGE
• Michaël Oustinoff, Université Nice Sophia-Antipolis (UCA), LIRCES
• Paul Rasse, Université Nice Sophia-Antipolis (UCA), SIC.lab.

Jeudi 23 mai 2019
8h30 > 9h00 Accueil – Café
9h00 > 10h45 :  (Auto)traduction collaborative et textes hétérolingues
• Julie Charles, Collaborative translation as self-translation: Nabokov’s creative involvement in the French translation of Ada or Ardor: a Family Chronicle
• Marcos Eymar, L’autotraduction intra-textuelle: l’exemple de la littérature bilingue des auteurs hispaniques aux EEUU
• Amaury de Sart, Transferre in fabula: Larva. Babel de una noche de Sans Juan et le travail de la traduction
• Idriss Amid, Le lecteur implicite : traduction et re(auto)traduction dans l’œuvre de Amara Lakhou
10h45 > 11h00 Pause
11h00 > 12h15 : Intraduisibilité et (auto)traductions interculturelles
• Stavroula Katsiki,  « Le combat avec le mot » de Melpo Axioti
• Nayrouz Chapin, L’autotraduction interculturelle chez Agustín Gómez-Arcos ou l’universalité de l’Espagne
• Britta Benert, Quelques réflexions à propos des auto-traductions ‘en torts et de travers’ de Tomi Ungerer
12h15 > 14h00 Pause déjeuner
14h00 > 14h50 : Intraduisibilité et (auto)traductions interculturelles (fin)
• Yana Linkova, Traduire Maupassant ou réécrire Maupassant : le transfert culturel politisé
• Youlia Sioli, Zinaïda Volkonskaïa de Nadezhda Gorodetskaïa : une œuvre ratée ?
14h50 > 15h10 Pause
15h10 > 16h30 : (Auto)traduction intersémiotique, imaginaires des langues et traduction
« automatique »
• Julie Boéri, Pratiques traductionnelles des altermondes : entre unité et diversité
• Virginie Pfeiffer, Processus d'auto-traduction dans la littérature jeunesse aborigène
• Linda Dewolf, Le surtitrage : un transfert indispensable dans le fonctionnement des représentations de spectacles
• Olga Inkova,  La traduction « automatique » : une alternative valide à la traduction « professionnelle » ?
• 16h30-17h00 : Clôture du colloque

Source: http://unice.fr/laboratoires/lirces/fr/contenus-riches/documents-telechargeables/colloque-autotraduction-22-23-mai-2019

Update Bibliography on Self-translation

The bibliography on self-translation has been updated. To download the pdf-file please click here. If you have any suggestions for further entries, please leave a comment. The next update is scheduled for 1st of July 2019.

Cfp Périphéries – Centres – Traduction (Wrocław)

PÉRIPHÉRIES – CENTRES – TRADUCTION (Colloque international)
Institut d’études romanes, Université de Wrocław, du 21 au 22 novembre 2019

Le colloque PÉRIPHÉRIES – CENTRES – TRADUCTION propose de privilégier l’observation des échanges traductifs au sein du système littéraire mondial à partir des périphéries, notamment du point de vue de la directionnalité de la traduction littéraire et en sciences humaines, y compris dans une perspective historique.

Les questionnements suivants seront abordés :
Le caractère des relations périphérie-périphérie : la traduction est-elle un terrain de coopération ? de rivalité ? le centre est-il inévitable comme intermédiaire ? quelles formes prend-il en tant que tel ? la traduction-relais est-elle un phénomène notable ? quels sont les facteurs qui poussent à ignorer les centres ?...
Le caractère des relations périphérie-centre : la traduction des périphéries vers le centre utilise-t-elle les mêmes stratégies et techniques que dans le sens inverse ? le recours aux paratextes est-il plus marqué ? y a-t-il des genres privilégiés ? la traduction mène-t-elle toujours à la consécration ? peut-on parler de consécrations manquées ?...
Les comportements spécifiques des acteurs périphériques : les éditeurs et les traducteurs des œuvres traduites des langues périphériques développent-ils d’autres stratégies (paratextuelles, promotionnelles, textuelles,…) que les éditeurs et traducteurs des œuvres traduites des langues centrales ?
Les relations centre-périphéries au sein des cultures/communautés multilingues : la direction privilégiée de la traduction mène-t-elle à la formation d’un centre ? quelle sont la place et les fonctions de l’autotraduction ?... [...]

Date limite de soumission des propositions: 30 avril 2019

To read the complete Call for papers and for more information on the submission of proposals please consult: https://www.fabula.org/actualites/colloque-international-peripheries-centres-traduction_90000.php

Writing for Liberty Conference 2019

Self-translation will be a topic at the Writing for Liberty Conference 2019, taking place in Buenos Aires, 11-13 April 2019.

• Panel 2: Writing Transgression
  SPORTURNO, María Laura (UNLP/CONICET). “Writing for Liberty: Self-translation as a Form of Liberation”.

Schedule: http://noticias.unsam.edu.ar/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Prog.pdf

Source: http://noticias.unsam.edu.ar/2018/11/14/writing-for-liberty-2019-english-version/

AIA Seminar, 4-6. April 2019 Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro"

Self-translation will be the topic of two talks at the AIA (Associazione Italiana di Anglistica) Seminar, taking place from 4th-6th April 2019 at Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro".

• Elisa Pantaleo “In Search of a Source Text: Questioning the Concept of “Source Text” in Retranslation, Self-Translation and the Translation of Postcolonial Works”
• Michele Russo: “Self-Translation and Language Hybridization in Gary Shteyngart’s Little Failure. A Memoir (2014)”

Source and full program: http://www.anglisti.it/event/aia-seminar-programma-definitivo/

Talk: Transcribir: Self-Translation in U.S. Latinx Poetry

Rachel Galvin will give a talk on Transcribir: Self-Translation in U.S. Latinx Poetry at the University of Chicago on Wednesday, April 10, 2019 ( 4:30PM TO 6:00PM) at MCCOSH HALL 40.

Source: https://english.princeton.edu/events/transcribir-self-translation-us-latinx-poetry

CfP Conference – ‘Rethinking (Self)Translation in (Trans)national

Rethinking (Self)Translation in (Trans)national Contexts,
a one-day conference aimed at PhD students and early career scholars.

7 June 2019, The University of Manchester

The conference aims to create an interdisciplinary space of discussion and analysis of the concept of (self-)translation and its political, sociological and ideological power. Locating translation at the heart of events and discourses that characterise contemporary society, we aim to understand what role and function translation plays in a (trans)national world. That is, how it contributes to shaping (trans)national discourses, and transcending political, linguistic, cultural and geographical borders. We intend to explore the activist potential of translation from different disciplines and in distinct fields, through multiple channels and in various contexts. In light of this, we welcome abstracts of 250 words in, but not limited to:

• Literature
• Translation and Interpreting
• Cultural studies
• Media and Film studies
• Gender studies
• History
• Social Studies

Please note that translation is considered in a broad sense. It refers to interlingual, but also to intermedial and intercultural processes. Key leading questions include:

• How can translation reshape ideas of global and local?
• How does translation defy categorizations and dichotomies?
• What is the role played by translation in creating spaces of dialogue and negotiation?
• Can translation be considered and used as an activist tool?
• How does translation reshape discourses which are socially, linguistically, geographically and ideologically embedded?

Please send your abstracts to: rethinkingselftranslation@gmail.com

The deadline for the submission abstracts is 31 March 2019.

Source: https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/alc-grad-school/2019/03/11/selftranslation/

Update Bibliography on Self-translation

The bibliography on self-translation has been updated. To download the pdf-file please click here. If you have any suggestions for further entries, please leave a comment. The next update is scheduled for 1st of  April 2019.

Please note:
- 2 special journal issues have been published since the last update:

• Genesis. 2018. “Entre les langues. N° 46. Edited by Olga Anokhina & Emilio Sciarrino. URL: https://journals.openedition.org/genesis/1824 
• Testo e Senso. 2018. “Tradurre se stessi / Translating oneself”. N° 19. Edited by Rossana Sebellin & Alessandra D'Atena. URL: http://testoesenso.it/issue/view/25 

- 2 edited volumes on self-translation have also been published:

• Cartago, Gabriella & Jacopo Ferrari (eds.). 2018. Momenti di storia dell’autotraduzione. Milano: LED. [174 pages] URL:  http://www.ledonline.it/index.php/LCM-Journal/pages/view/qlcm-10-Autotraduzione
• Costa, Maria Teresa & Hans Christian Hönes (eds.), 2018. Migrating Histories of Art: Self-Translations of a Discipline. Berlin: De Gruyter. [232 pages] Table of contents available online: https://www.degruyter.com/viewbooktoc/product/474337