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Collaborative Translation and Self-Translation

University of Birmingham

Venue: Room 112, Muirhead Tower, Edgbaston Campus, University of Birmingham
Period: Saturday 23 January 2016, 9am - 6pm

Program

ALL WELCOME!
[The two afternoon panels have a substantial Slavonic/Russian content]
 
The workshop is funded by CEELBAS and has been organised by Dr Natasha Rulyova under the auspices of the Birmingham Centre for Translation
 

09:00 Breakfast (coffee/tea and mini muffins)
09:10 Welcome
09:15-11:15 Panel One: Theorising Collaborative Translation and Self-Translation       

  • Anthony Cordingley, ‘A Genetic Approach to Self-Translation and Collaborative Translation’
  • Julie Hansen, ‘Different Types of Self-Translation, with a Focus on Translingual Writing’
  • Eva Gentes, ‘Translating with a Self-Translator: The Many Faces of Collaborative Translation’
  • Dr Olga Castro, ‘Self-translation, Power and Activism: the (In-)visible Author-Translator’s Role’

11:30-13:00 Panel Two: Collaboration in (Self-)Translation: From German Philosophy to Basque Literature

  • Hilary Brown, ‘Translation, Collaboration and Gender in Early Modern Germany’
  • Elizabete Manterola Agirrezabalaga, ‘Collaborative Self-translation in a Diglosic Literature and The Power Implications’
  • Duncan Large, ‘Self-Translations by Western Philosophers’

13:00-14:00 Working Lunch: Discussion about further development of relevant research and collaborative (!) work on potential large grants
14:00-16:00 Panel Three: Identifying Collaboration (or Lack of It?) in Self-Translation

  • Lyudmila Razumova, ‘Polyvalence of Self-Translation in Vladimir Nabokov’s Writing’
  • Alexandra Berlina, ‘Memory and More in Brodsky’s Self-Translations’
  • Eugenia Kilbert, ‘(Un)collaborative Self-Translation’
  • Natalia Rulyova, ‘Brodsky’s Collaborative Self-Translation’

16:00-16:15 Coffee Break 
16:15-18:00 Panel Four: Learning from Practitioners: Writers, Translators and Self-Translators

  • Natasha Lvovich, ‘Medication against Nostalgia’ and the Window into Translingual Creative Process’
  • Robert Chandler, ‘Researching and Reshaping the Source Text’
  • Victor Sonkin, ‘All Roads Lead To… Where? The joys and pitfalls of self-translating a historical guidebook’
  • Alexandra Borisenko ‘Translator’s Investigation: Compiling Anthologies of Crime Fiction at the Translation Workshop’

Information & contacts

Dr Hilary Brown
German Studies / Translation and Intercultural Studies
Director, Birmingham Centre for Translation
Department of Modern Languages
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham B15 2TT
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 5930
Email: h.j.brown.1@bham.ac.uk

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