Talk on Academic Self-translation

On 12th November 2020, Maria Alice Antunes (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro) gave a talk on the experience of translating her article “The decision to self-translate, motivations and consequences: a study of the cases of João Ubaldo Ribeiro, André Brink and Ngugi wa Thiong’o“ (2013)" into Portuguese- She raises some interesting questions about the differences between academic and literary self-translation. You can watch the talk here: https://youtu.be/jOgwoPH3X8Y 

Online event 10th November: Raquel Salas Rivera On Self-Translation

 Tuesday, November 10, 2020 4:30 PM (Chicago time, UTC-6) [Central Europe Time: 11:30pm]

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature and faculty working in Translation Studies and the Center for Latin American Studies, with support from the Program in Creative Writing. The event will be the first to be live streamed on the new Translation Studies YouTube Channel (https://youtu.be/AM2I0nWH36w), and we hope this format will allow for greater access and ease of viewing. Please note that to use the chat function or pose questions at the end of the talk, you’ll need to be logged into a YouTube account or a Gmail account.

Raquel Salas Rivera is a Puerto Rican poet, translator, and editor. Named the 2018-2019 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia and winner of the New Voices Award from Puerto Rico’s Festival de la Palabra, Salas Rivera has published five books of poetry. lo terciario/ the tertiary (Noemi Press, 2019), won the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry and was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award. while they sleep (under the bed is another country) (Birds, LLC, 2019), was longlisted for the 2020 Pen America Open Book Award and was a finalist for CLMP’s 2020 Firecracker Award, and x/ex/exis (University of Arizona Press, 2020), won the inaugural Ambroggio Prize. Salas Rivera holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania and resides in Puerto Rico.

Source: https://arts.uchicago.edu/event/raquel-salas-rivera-self-translation

Online conference: Nuevas escrituras multilingües latinoamericanas y latinas (2000-2020) - 15 & 16 October 2020, Ghent University

Self-translation is a topic at the online conference "Nuevas escrituras multilingües latinoamericanas y latinas (2000-2020) - 15 & 16 October 2020 hosted by Ghent University.

16th October (Time is CET)

• 15h30-16h Sarah Staes (Universiteit Gent)
  “Narradoras nomádicas y transcripciones transnacionales. Los ingrávidos de Valeria Luiselli y Más al sur de Paloma Vidal”
• 16h-16h30 Paloma Vidal (escritora/Universidade de São Paulo)
  “Lugar, lengua, amor: relatos entre Argentina y Brasil” 
• 16h45-17h15: María Laura Spoturno (Universidad Nacional de La Plata/CONICET)
  “Ethos colectivo y (auto)traducción en el exilio. El caso de Alicia Partnoy” 
  
• 17h15-17h45  Tomás Espino Barrera (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)
  “El bilingüe como doble en la obra autobiográfica de Ariel Dorfman”
  
• 17h45-18h Entrevista con Marcos Eymar (escritor/Université d’Orléans

Information on the program and how to access the zoom stream can be found here: https://www.vidasentraduccion.com/nuevas-escrituras 

Online event: 10th October: Philip Ford Annual Postgraduate Day: Neo-Latin and the Vernacular

The Society for Neo-Latin Studies is delighted to announce that the postponed Philip Ford Annual Postgraduate Day will take place virtually on 10 October 2020. The event, which will be hosted by the Warburg Institute, will focus on Neo-Latin and the vernacular. There will be an interactive session on bilingual writing/self-translation in the early modern period led by Dr Sara Miglietti (12.40-1.30) and a talk by Professor Ingrid de Smet on methodology in translating Neo-Latin texts. Additionally, there will be three panels with paper presentations by postgraduates and early career researchers. We hope the event will provide a good opportunity for MA students and postgraduate, post-doctoral and early career researchers to find out more about Neo-Latin projects, discuss ideas, and meet other scholars in the discipline.

For more information and to see the full program: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22903

Today, 6th Oct: Conversation with Jhumpa Lahiri: New Languages/Old Worlds: the Self in Translation

The Center for Science and Society at Columbia University is organizing an online event with the author and self-translator Jhumpa Lahiri on Tuesday, 6th October 2020 at 8 pm local time (2am CET). Registration is required but free: https://scienceandsociety.columbia.edu/events/jhumpa-lahiri-new-languagesold-worlds-self-translation

Pulitzer-Prize-winning author and translator Jumpha Lahiri writes in English and Italian. At first, she was reluctant to translate her own work, after translating a short-story for the New Yorker from Italian to English, she decided to give it a try with her next novel. Whereabouts will be published in English self-translation next year by Bloomsbury. 

Links:

• Her self-translated short story "The Boundary": https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/29/the-boundary
• Short interview where she talks about this experience: https://www.newyorker.com/books/this-week-in-fiction/fiction-this-week-jhumpa-lahiri-2018-01-29
• Interview with Asymptote about giving self-translation a try: https://www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2018/04/16/asymptote-book-club-in-conversation-with-jhumpa-lahiri/
• Her self-translated novel "Whereabouts": https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/whereabouts-9781526629951/

Event description by the organizers

New Languages/Old Worlds: the Self in Translation

Join novelist Jhumpa Lahiri, in a conversation about her experience as a self-described “linguistic exile”. As someone who grew up in the interface of two disparate languages, Jhumpa Lahiri has elected to read and write exclusively in a new one: Italian. Though her mother tongue was Bengali, she moved from London at the age of two to Rhode Island, and went on to conduct the entirety of her extensive education in English. Despite her academic background and the fact that almost all of her acclaimed literary achievements to date have been in English, she now only reads and writes in Italian and has said: “English denotes a heavy burdensome aspect of my past. I’m tired of it.” Ms. Lahiri will speak about her linguistic odyssey and her conscious and at times arduous adoption of an entirely new language.

GIORNATA EUROPEA DELLE LINGUE – 26.09.2020 Bilinguismo, Plurilinguismo, Ideologia tra didattica e creazione letteraria

Self-translation is a topic at an online conference on literary multilingualism organized by the University of Pisa taking place today. In the second part of the morning session (~11:30-13:00) there are 2 talks on self-translations:

• Alessandra D’Atena: Il bilinguismo poetico di Rose Ausländer: le autotraduzioni; 
• Barbara Meazzi: Plurilinguismi poetici: Amelia Rosselli e Ilse Garnier.

In the afternoon (14.30-19.00) there are contributions by several multilingual authors including the self-translators Matei Vişniec, Vera Lúcia de Oliveira and Sergi Pàmies. 

The full program can be found here: https://www.fileli.unipi.it/lin/eventi/giornata-europea-delle-lingue-2020/

Joining the conference is free, just click on this link: https://fileli.unipi.it/lin/200926-gel2020 (Microsoft teams, you can join with your browser without installing  the app)

Update Bibliography on self-translation

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CfP D'Annunzio as world literature: translation and reception

We invite proposals for a panel at the Modern Language Colloquium in Glasgow (UK), which will be held on 17-19 June 2021, on the theme 

D’Annunzio as World Literature: Translation and Reception in the Wake of Decadence 

As recent studies have demonstrated, translation was crucial for the development of the Decadent movement, which originated in France but soon found disciples across and beyond Europe. Among these was Gabriele d’Annunzio, a poet, modernist experimenter and political agitator whose larger-than-life persona dominated the national cultural scene for many years. D’Annunzio’s work spanned genres and media, participating in a rich context of poetry, literature, theatre, and film. He was one of the few fin-de-siècle Italian authors to receive global attention, and remains an “uncomfortable” presence in today’s Italian canon. This panel sets out to examine D’Annunzio’s work within a world literature framework, from his own engagement with translation to the international circulation and reception of his work. Contributions are welcome (but not limited to) the following topics: 

Translation within D’Annunzio’s texts, including:

 — Multilingualism in D’Annunzio’s texts 

• Translingual writing (e.g. D’Annunzio’s writing in French) 
• Self Translation 
• Rewriting and plagiarism 

— D’Annunzio’s theorizing on translation 

• Gender and translation (including gender as a productive category of translation) 
• Immediate reception, including: Fin-de-siècle translations of D’Annunzio 
• D’Annunzio’s translators, their habitus, translating strategies and relationship to the Decadent movement 
• D’Annunzio’s relationship to translators, editors and other literary agents 

— Censorship and political contexts of reception

• D’Annunzio’s impact on modern/modernist writers across Europe and the world Multimedia contexts and responses 
• The afterlife of D’Annunzio’s text, including: D’Annunzio’s place in Italian and foreign canons (i.e. school and university syllabi) 
• Recent and contemporary translations or adaptations of D’Annunzio 
• D’Annunzio’s impact on contemporary texts (i.e. citations; D’Annunzio as a character) 

* Abstracts (250 words) and short bios should be submitted to Elisa Segnini (elisa.segnini@glasgow.ac.uk) and Michael Subialka (msubialka@ucdavis.edu) by August 15th, 2020. We welcome any questions about possible proposals and topics. 

More information about the MLA colloquium can be found at: https://symposium.mla.org/

Source: https://www.avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/d-annunzio-as-world-literature-translation-and-reception/

Call for Papers Humour and Self-Translation

Editors: Margherita Dore and Giacinto Palmieri 

The volume aims to explore the self-translation of humour. Generally speaking, self-translation is described as a type of translation in which the translators happen to be the same people as the authors of the source text. It represents an atypical case which, as such, was somewhat neglected by Translation Studies scholars. More recently, however, self-translation has attracted a good deal of attention, as demonstrated by Gentes’s (2020) 212-page bibliography on this topic. Notwithstanding this, the self-translation of humour appears to be a remarkable blind spot. A text search for the word “humour” in the aforementioned bibliography returns only one match (Noonan 2013), searching for “humor” returns one more (Palmieri 2017a), while “comedy” returns three (Palmieri 2017a; Palmieri 2017b; Sebellin 2009; Palmieri 2018) and “comic” returns only one (Cohn 1961). 

Another aspect that makes the research gap on humour self-translation so remarkable is that the translation of humour in general has also been the object of much attention, not least because it offers a wide range of challenges, spanning from dealing with wordplay to the importance of culture-specific references (Chiaro 1992, 2005; Zabalbeascoa 1996; Attardo 2002; Dore 2019). Moreover, the success or failure in humour translation is often constrained by the translation mode used (cf. for instance Zabalbascoa 1994; Dore 2019; Dore, forthcoming). Interestingly, many authors who have written on self-translation (e.g. Fitch 1988; Eco 2013) have stressed that self-translators enjoy a level of freedom greater than that allowed to allographic translators. Similarly, the challenging nature of humour translation makes the case of self-translation the more interesting and intriguing, as it often requires exercising great freedom in adapting the humours content to the target audience (as discussed, with reference to stand-up comedy, in Palmieri 2018). Therefore, observing specific cases of humour self-translation is likely to unveil specific characteristics of this process in different context (cf. e.g. Palmieri 2018) and of humour translation in general. 

It is envisaged that the exploration of this fascinating phenomenon will further contribute to enhance the ongoing debate on the (un)translatability of humour (Delabastita 1996; 1997; Chiaro 2000; Dore 2019). Since the self-translation of humour can potentially cover several fields of enquire and application, as well as genres, an edited book can become a particularly promising tool. With these premises in mind, we would like to launch a Call for Papers to encourage scholars to give a contribution to mapping this problem space, by identifying instances of humour self-translation in their specific areas of competence, both in terms of language(s) and medium/ text type.

The papers will be peer-reviewed. Authors will be asked to send their contributions to both Margherita Dore (margherita.dore@uniroma1.it) and Giacinto Palmieri (g.palmieri@londonmet.ac.uk).

Timeline
30th June 2020 – Abstracts (300 words) 

Notification of acceptance: 31/07/2020 

End of January 2021 – Manuscripts of chapters (up to 8,000 words) 

End of March 2021 – Feedback from editors/external readers 

End of May 2021 – Final manuscripts 

Length of contributions: 8.000 words
Please use British spelling.

For a list of references see: https://www.sisubakercentre.org/2020/05/19/cfp-humour-and-self-translation/

Update bibliography on self-translation

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[Cancelled] Conference "Autotraduction : perspectives intertextuelles, transactions esthétiques, circulations transculturelles", 6 & 7 April 2020, Lyon, France

Update: Due to the current crisis, the conference has been cancelled for now.

The conference  "Autotraduction : perspectives intertextuelles, transactions esthétiques, circulations transculturelles" is taking place on 6th & 7th April 2020 in Lyon, France.
Place of the conference: Campus des Quais, Salle Caillemer, 15, quai Claude Bernard, 69007 LYON

6th April
9h10-9h40 Discours d’ouverture par les organisateurs du colloque
Séance matinale, première partie: De l’usage de l’autotraduction en sciences humaines
Séance présidée par Rainier Grutman
9h40-10h10 Anthony Cordingley (Université de Sidney / Paris 8), L’autotraduction : étude
d’une métaphore sans domicile fixe
10h10-10h40 Amanda Murphy (Université Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle), L’autotraduction : audelà de la comparaison
Séance matinale, seconde partie : L’autotraduction en poésie
11h00–11h30 Anna Saroldi (Université d’Oxford), Self-translating towards the past or the
future? Temporal and linguistic crossings in Jacqueline Risset and Peter Robinson
11h30-12h30 Performance Traduire, s’autotraduire, avec la participation du poète Mohammed
El Amraoui, du traducteur et poète Miloud Gharrafi (Université de Lyon/Université Jean
Moulin-Lyon 3) et d’étudiants du Département d’arabe de la Faculté des Langues de
l’Université de Lyon (Université Jean Moulin-Lyon 3) ; animée par Pascale Roux (Université
Grenoble Alpes) et Touriya Fili-Tullon (Université Lumière Lyon 2)
Séance de l’après-midi : L’autotraduction à l’aune des transferts intersémiotiques
Séance présidée par Michaël Oustinoff
14h10-14h40 Hélène Martinelli (Université de Lyon/ ENS, Lyon), Autotraduction, autoillustration, auto-édition
14h40-15h10 Elizabete Manterola Agirrezabalaga (Université du Pays Basque UPV / EHU,
Espagne), Beyond literary self-translation: authorial translations in cinema
15h10-15h40 Georgeta Cristian (Université Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle), Avatars du « Désir »,
selon Matéi Visniec. De l’écriture auctoriale à la représentation scénique
15h40-16h10 Martina Bolici (Université Grenoble Alpes), F.T. Marinetti, « poète italo-français »
entre réécriture et autotraduction. Une histoire génétique de Poupées électriques à
Fantocci elettrici
16h30-18h30 Table ronde Écrire, s’autotraduire, traduire une œuvre autotraduite, avec la
participation de Luba Jurgenson (écrivaine, traductrice et chercheure à Sorbonne Université
- participation par correspondance), Vladimir Pozner (journaliste et écrivain, Russie),
Maxim D. Shrayer (écrivain, traducteur et chercheur à Boston College, Etats-Unis) et Anne Marie Tatsis-Botton (traductrice, France) ; animée par Anna Lushenkova Foscolo (Université
de Lyon / Université Jean-Moulin Lyon 3)

7th April
Séance matinale : Autotraduction et circulation des savoirs : perspective transculturelle
Séance présidée par Anthony Cordingley
10h00-10h30 Maria Teresa Costa (Max-Planck-Institut, Berlin), Self-translating Art History.
Some case-studies
10h30-11h00 Ioulia Podoroga (Université de Strasbourg), Penser en deux langues : Vassily
Kandinsky et le problème de l’autotraduction
11h00-11h30 Giovanna Targia (Universität Zürich / Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - MaxPlanck-Institut), Iconology Self-Translated: Erwin Panofsky, Edgar Wind, and the Survival
of a Research Method
11h30-12h00 Sara De Balsi (Université de Cergy-Pontoise), Un essai, deux publics : enjeux
de l’autotraduction dans Papà, mamma e gender (2015) et Maman, papa, le genre et moi
(2017) de Michela Marzano

Séance de l’après-midi : Autotraduction : perspectives historiques & pratiques
contemporaines
Séance présidée par Olga Artyushkina
14h00-14h30 Rainier Grutman (Ottawa, Canada), Se traduire à l’ère de la translatio imperii : Le témoignage de quelques préfaces d’autotraducteurs du 16e siècle
14h30-15h00 Gayaneh Armaganian-Le Vu (Université de Lyon / ENS de Lyon), Les
autotraductions françaises en prose de E. Baratynski
15h00-15h30 Britta Benert (Université de Strasbourg), Lou Andreas-Salomé, auto-traductrice ?
15h30-16h00 Simona Anselmi (Université Catholique de Sacré-Coeur, Milan, Italie), Selftranslators in Italy: an investigation into their translatorial habitudes and behavioural
varieties
16h30-17h30 Conclusions du colloque



Link: https://marge.univ-lyon3.fr/medias/fichier/program-autotraduction-avril-2020_1583755202688-pdf