Getting our Hands Dirty

Getting our Hands Dirty: What's so special about feminist translation (and translating feminists)? Round table discussion and Q&A.

University of Exeter Digital Humanities Lab

This event can be attended both in-person and virtually!** PLEASE NOTE ** For guests who have selected to attend virtually, a Zoom invitation will be sent out the evening prior to the event, or see details below.The late great maverick Moroccan feminist writer Malika Moustadraf died at just 37 years old in 2006. Persecuted throughout her short life for writing about sexual violence and the patriarchy in her fiction, the key details of her life story remain contested. So what are the challenges of translating a dead writer of such freighted work? And what issues must we take into account when attempting to represent someone like her in English in 2022?With Alice Guthrie, Helen Vassallo and Majida Ibrahim.Alice Guthrie is an independent queer feminist translator, editor, and curator, specialising in contemporary Arabic writing. Her work often focuses on subaltern voices and activist art. She is currently compiling the first ever anthology of LGBTQIA+ Arab(ic) literary writing, set to appear in parallel Arabic and English editions in 2023. She occasionally teaches undergrad and postgrad literary translation at the University of Exeter and the University of Birmingham, and most recently in Casablanca for Olive Writers.Helen Vassallo is the founder of Translating Women, a research project that bridges academic and industry contexts, assessing and challenging the barriers faced by women’s writing in translation. She translates Francophone women’s writing (with particular focus on North Africa and the Middle East), and has recently published translations of Darina Al Joundi’s The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing and Marseillaise My Way. Helen is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Exeter.Majida Ibrahim is an Arabic-English translator/interpreter with an experience in working in translation in many countries: UK, Syria, Qatar, Oman and Vietnam. Majida holds an MSc in Translation and Conference Interpreting from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh/Scotland, in which she looked at the concept of equivalence in Hanan Al-Shaykh’s novel ‘the Story of Zahra’. Majida’s main research interests are translation and interpreting, gender studies, linguistics, Arabic literature and language, Arabic musicology, English literature, and Islamic studies.** ZOOM INVITATION DETAILS FOR GUESTS ATTENDING VIRTUALLY **Watts, Amy is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.Topic: Getting our Hands Dirty: What&#x27;s so special about feminist translation (and translating feminists)?Time: May 12, 2022 02:00 PM LondonJoin Zoom Meetinghttps://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/97259978936?pwd=RlJGVW5wQVc3MjU4c0VNeU85VzcxUT09Meeting ID: 972 5997 8936Password: 745315Dial by your location +44 203 481 5240 United Kingdom +44 208 080 6591 United KingdomFor guidance and support on using Zoom, University of Exeter staff and students can visit the University’s &lt;a href=&quot;https://universityofexeteruk.sharepoint.com/sites/TheDigitalHub&quot;&gt;Digital Hub&lt;/a&gt;.If you do not have a University of Exeter login please visit &lt;a href=&quot;https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us&quot;&gt;Zoom Support&lt;/a&gt;.

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