Past Conferences
Translating Holocaust Literature- Trinity College Dublin - Long Room Hub June 15-16, 2013
Organiser: Peter Arnds
Law, Literature and Translation - Trinity College Dublin - Long Room Hub June 8-10, 2012
Organisers: Peter Arnds and Sandrine Brisset
Keynote speakers:
Professor Mark Harman - Elizabethtown College, Pennslyvania (reknowned Kafka translator)
High Court Judge - Brian McMahon
Lawyer and prolific literary critic - Joseph Hassett
Plus a discussion/questions and answers session with John O'Brien -Editor-in-Chief, Dalkey Archive Press
Translation Right or Wrong 2009
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, 6-7 MARCH 2009
Organisers: The Trinity College Dublin Translation Studies Group
Keynote speakers:
JOSEPHINE BALMER: "Whose Classics?: Transgressing and
Recreating Ancient Greek & Latin Texts."
LAWRENCE VENUTI: "Translation, Intertextuality,
Interpretation."
[More about our invited speakers: Josephine Balmer, and her classical translations (including her latest book, The Word for Sorrow); Lawrence Venuti's faculty page at Temple University, and some of his books.]
More than fifty translation scholars and researchers responded to our call for papers on the conference themes. Here is the latest LIST OF SESSIONS AND SPEAKERS (updated February 4th, 2009):
Theory
Luise von Flotow, María del Pilar Ordóñez-LópezJudging Translation
Annjo Klungervik Greenall, Paule Salerno-O'Shea, Elisabeth Gibbels, Francesca Savoia, Catherine O' Brien, Alberto FuertesTeaching Translation
Giuseppe Vatalaro, Lucía Pintado, David ParrisTranslation and Literature
Doireann Lalor, Floriana Marinzuli, Simona Rossi, Carmen Mangiron, Natalia Olshanskaya, Lorraine Byrne Bodley, Michelle Woods, Magdalena Obrzut, Pawel Zosik, Mark Raftery-Skehan, Sabine Strumper-Krobb, Paul RankinTranslation of Sacred Texts
Rim Hassen, Danuta Przepiorkowska, Nicholas WilliamsTranslation and Taboo
Bart Defrancq, Ilaria PariniTranslating for Children
BJ Epstein, Emer Delaney, Giorgia Carta, Caterina Sinibaldi, Virginia Jewiss, Mette RudvinTechnology and Translation
Beverly Adab, Francisca García Luque, Minako O'HaganIreland, Translation, Literature
Debora Biancheri, Peter Flynn, Susanne Ghassempur, Ángeles Conde Parrilla, Giulia Totò, Anne MarkeyPolitics, Language Politics, Censorship
Ronald Puppo, Renata Kamenická, Sabine Dedenbach-Salazar, Simone Schroth, Victoria Ríos Castaño, Carol O'Sullivan, Kathleen Shields, Jacqueline Anne Hurtley Grundy, Richard Glyn Roberts, Jane DunnettDETAILS: Papers will be about 20 minutes long, presented in parallel sessions of 75 minutes (allowing 15 minutes for questions at the end). The conference fee is €40, including tea, coffee and a wine reception. A full downloadable programme and booking form will be posted on this page by mid-February.
BOOK LAUNCHES AND DISPLAYS: The proceedings of the previous Trinity College Dublin conference on Translation and Censorship will be launched, toegther with David Scott's new translation of Mallarmé Sonnets. There will be a large book display by leading translation publisher St. Jerome Publishing. Contact: cato@tcd.ie
The organizers gratefully acknowledge the support of ILE, the Ireland Literature Exchange.