Name: Film Screening and Q&A: Surviving Translation
Start: 2025-03-06T14:00:00Z
End: 2025-03-06T16:00:00Z
Location: 82 Tanner St

Film Screening and Q&A: Surviving Translation

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A film screening of Surviving Translation, co-created and co-produced by Professor Charlotte Bosseaux (University of Edinburgh)

82 Tanner St

On Thursday 6th March, we will show a film screening of Surviving Translation, co-created and co-produced by Professor Charlotte Bosseaux (University of Edinburgh). A Q&amp;A will follow the screening. Please note it is a Hybrid Event.Film: Surviving Translation (Charlotte Bosseaux and Ling Lee, 2023).Synopsis: Rejeen Musa was working as a subtitler on ‘Surviving Translation’ when the words she was translating began to unlock painful memories from her own past. As a female Kurdish migrant and a translator, Rejeen became the lens through which the film explores the trauma and life-altering consequences of mistranslation. In addition to Rejeen, the film captures testimonies from women who fled their homelands in the hope of building a new life in the UK. They speak candidly of the dangers and gender-based violence they suffered in their past and the arduous journeys they undertook to escape. They explain that – even after arriving in the UK – they need to communicate via an interpreter to secure medical care and apply for asylum; a process which causes them to relive past traumas and recurring unequal power dynamics. With their futures held in the balance – they must speak via a complete stranger who may or may not have their best interest at heart. To further illuminate this largely unexamined subject, the film also presents testimonies from interpreters, subtitlers and translators who describe the – sometimes harrowing – challenges that they themselves face. Raw testimony, poetic imagery, and academic research coalesce in this unique meditation on translation, isolation, and the meaning of ‘home’.Speaker's Bio:Professor Charlotte Bosseaux holds a chair in Audiovisual Translation Studies at the University of Edinburgh. She was the primary investigator for the Ethical Translation project, which was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and considered the ways in which the voices of GBV and trauma survivors are translated. Her practice-based research created a multilingual documentary Surviving Translation (© University of Edinburgh, 2023) underpinned by new research into the ethics of translation. Charlotte co-created and co-produced Surviving Translation. She also oversaw the subtitling and voice-over process, subtitled the documentary into French and wrote the <a href="https://ethicaltranslation.llc.ed.ac.uk/guidelines/" title="https://ethicaltranslation.llc.ed.ac.uk/guidelines/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">good practice guidelines</a> in collaboration with AV consultants and subtitlers of the documentary. The monograph coming out of the Ethical Translation project, A Voice of Their Own, will be published by Palgrave Pivot in 2025.Charlotte’s research interests span different fields. She has worked on literary translation and point of view, and is the author of How does it Feel: Point of View in Translation (Rodopi, 2007). Current research interests include voice, performance and characterisation in audiovisual material. She has authored a monograph on this topic; Dubbing, Film and Performance: Uncanny Encounters (Peter Lang 2015). Other publications include work on Marilyn Monroe (2012 and 2012a), Julianne Moore (2019), and on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2008 and 2014). She currently writes on documentaries dealing with Gender-Based Violence investigating how the voices of women are translated in this context (2019). Other publications include work on multilingualism in TV series (2023), music in translation (2011, forthcoming 2025) and crime fiction in translation (2018).Please note this is a Hybrid Event. If you wish to attend in person please book General Admission On Site ticket. If you wish to attend online please book General Admission Online ticket.

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