[Discussion] Conference: "Translating Eastern Europe" (30 September-2 October, Columbus, OH). Preliminary Program.

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From: "Serguei Alex. Oushakine" <sao15@columbia.edu>

Conference: "Translating Eastern Europe"
(30 September-2 October, Columbus, OH)
http://appling.kent.edu/translatingeasterneurope/Mainpage1.html#preliminaryprogram


Preliminary Program.

Translating Eastern Europe
September 30 - October 2, 2005.

The conference will explore the role played by translated literature in the
evolution of literary traditions and national identities in Eastern Europe and
Russia. It will also examine the influence of translated literature on the ways
in which the West has imagined the "other" Europe. Special attention will be
paid to the political and cultural contexts that have shaped the selection,
translation, and reception of translated literature. General cultural and
linguistic challenges involved in translating literature from Eastern European
languages into English will also be addressed.

The conference is co-sponsored by The Center for Slavic and Eastern European
Studies and The Office of International Affairs, Interdisciplinary Lectures,
Seminars, and Conferences of The Ohio State University, and the Institute for
Applied Linguistics of Kent State University. It will be held at the Blackwell
Center on the main campus of The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.


Friday, September 30
Blackwell Conference Center and Hotel, Pfahl Hall, Third Floor

3:30-5:30 PM             Workshop on Literary Translation led by Marian
Schwartz
(Room 340)

 6:00 (302)                Welcome: Halina Stephan (CSEES) & BrianJames Baer
(KSU)

 6:30-7:30 (302)        Keynote Lecture: Clare Cavanagh (Northwestern
University)

 7:30-9:30                 Reception

Saturday, October 1
Blackwell Conference Center and Hotel, Pfahl Hall, Third Floor (Room 302)

 8:00-9:45 AM         Panel I: Contexts of Translation

"Translation, Competition, and Russian National Literature in the
1810s,"
David L. Cooper (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign);

"Translating India: Sakuntala in Russian Culture,"
Susmita Sundaram (Kenyon College);

"Translating Alexander Blo(c)k into German,"
Adrian Wanner (Penn State University);

 "How Bad is Bad? How Great is Great?: Translating Derzhavin in the
Context of Khodasevich's Biography,"
Angela Brintlinger (Ohio State University);

10:00-11:45
Panel II: Translating the Transition

"Translating Russian Political Language: Changes and Challenges,"
Lynn Visson (Hippocrene Books);

"Missed in Translation: Gender Theory in Russian,"
Serguei Oushakine
(Columbia University);

"Translation as Invention: Translating Sexual Identity,"
Suzana Tratnik (Ljubljana, Slovenia);

"Translating Societal Memory: The 60th Anniversary of V-Day,"
Natalia Olshanskaya (Kenyon College);

 12:00-1:30             Lunch Break

1:30-3:15
Panel III: Translating Politics and the Politics of Translation

"Agency, Subjectivity, and The Black Seasons: Translating Holocaust
Literature from Slavic Languages,"
Marci Shore (Indiana University at Bloomington);

"Milica Micic Dimovska and the Challenges of Subtlety,"
Sibelan Forrester, (Swarthmore College);

"Translating the Gettysburg Address: How Does Ideology Affect
Translation,"
Oksana Jackim (International Institute of Boston);

"The Cold War Translation of Liliana Ursu's Poetry,"
Sean Cotter (University of Texas at Dallas);

3:30-5:00
Panel IV: Contexts of Translation II

"The Translator as Creator, Inhabitant, and Citizen of Interlanguage,"
Melissa Smith (Youngstown State University);

"Authors and Translators: French Translations of Kundera,"
Jan Rubes (Universite libre de Bruxelles);

"The State of Hungarian Book Reviews: A Pre-Translation Problem of Cultural
Transfer,"
Andrea Berger (Ohio University);

5:15-6:00
Keynote Lecture:

Peeter Torop (University of Tartu)
"Semiotics and/in Translation Theory" (in Russian);

Sunday, October 2

Blackwell Conference Center and Hotel, Pfahl Hall, Third Floor (Room 302)

8:00-9:45 AM
Panel V: Translating Culture

"Translating Across the Border: Cultural Essays of Igor Klekh,"
Slava Yastremski (Grinnell College);

"Translation: Lost and Found,"
Sergei Task (Russia);

"Translating Speech Acts: Examples from Russian Poetry,"
Carol Ueland (Drew University) and Robert Carnavale;

"How Do You Say 'No Smoking!' in English?" Jim Kates (Zephyr Press);

10:00-11:45
Panel VI: Translating-Poets

"Translating Neology: Brodsky's 'New Words' in Russian and in English,"
Yakov Klots (Yale University);

"Freud in Nabokov's Self-Translations: Parody as Conveyance,"
Joanna Trzeciak (University of Missouri);

"The Englished, Russianed, and Re-Englished Russia of Nabokov's Childhood:
Narrative Metamorphoses in Conclusive Evidence, Drugie berega, and Speak,
Memory,"
Margarit Tadevosyan (Boston College);

"Joseph Brodsky and Seamus Heaney as Translators of Mandelstam,"
Jamie Olson (University of Michigan)

12:00-1:30
Panel VII: Translating the Post-Modern

"Compression Writing: Construal and Construction," Vlad Stroukov (University
of London);

 "Translation, Minor Literatures, and Globalization," Vitaly Chernetsky
(Northeastern University);

"Contexts, Subtexts, and Pretexts: Translating Sorokin's Goluboe salo,"
Nadja Korcagina and Deborah Hoffman;

1:30-4:00
Catered Lunch and Reading of Translated Literature
Hotel Ballroom

(Sponsored by the Polish Studies Center of Indiana University at
Bloomington)

Luncheon Keynote: "Sung in Translation:  On Translating Russian Opera,"
Harlow Robinson (Northeastern University), with a
performance by JR Fralick (Baldwin Wallace College);


Followed by a reading of translated literature moderated by Bill
Johnston:

Marian Schwartz (Russian), Joanna Trzeciak (Polish), Andrea Berger
(Hungarian), Jim Kates (Russian), Michael Naydan (Ukrainian),
Alyssa Valles (Polish), Carol Ueland and Robert Carnavale (Russian), Mira
Rosenthal (Polish).


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