We are proud to announce Rethinking (Self)Translation in (Trans)national Contexts, a one-day conference which aims to create an interdisciplinary space of discussion and analysis of the concept of (self-)translation and its political, sociological and ideological power.

Conference programme

9.00 - 9.30 Registration

9.30 - 10.15 Keynote 1: Dr Pauline Henry-Tierney (University of Newcastle): Negotiating Multiplicities of the Self: Translating Autofictional Women’s Writing

10.15 - 11.15 Language and Socio-Political Activism

Deborah Giustini (University of Manchester): A Translingual Emergency: The Role of Japanese Interpreters in Mediating and Politicising the Post-Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

Gaar Adams (University of Glasgow): Queerly Fluent/Fluently Queer: On (Re)Creating Shared Identities in Second and Third Languages Among Migrant LGBT Populations in the Arabian Peninsula

11.15-11.30 Coffee break

11.30 - 13.00 Translation and Shaping Identities

Elena Basile (University of Toronto/York University): (Self)Translation and the Disappeared Body: Trans-authoriality and Bilingual Dissonance in Work of Nathanaël

Shuangjin Xiao (University of Liverpool): Reconstructing Cultural Image, Reinterpreting Chivalrous Spirit: An Investigation into the Translation of Louis Cha’s Martial Arts Fiction

Muhammad Vasil (University of Hyderabad): Islam in Translation: Modern Translations of Quran and Debates on Language among Muslims in Kerala

13.00 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 14.45 Keynote 2: Dr Graciela Iglesias Rogers (University of Winchester): Translation and (Self)Translation in the Hispanic-Anglosphere: an interdisciplinary approach

14.45 - 16.15 Forms of Mediation in Performative Arts

Richard Huddleson (Queen Mary University of London): Blood, Sweat and Tears: Translating and Transporting ‘La Pell Escrita’ from Barcelona to Belfast

David Gerow (University of Glasgow): Mediated Meaning: How NT Live Productions Cinematise Theatre

Ingrid Bols (University of Glasgow): Flying Swans, Frozen Lakes and Dark Forests: The Landscape-Based Discourse on Nordic Music from Britain to France

16.15 - 16.30 Tea/coffee break

16.30 - 17.15 Keynote 3: Dr Barbara Spadaro (University of Liverpool): Translating an Exhibition: Beyond Borders, Transnational Italy in Tunisia

17.15 - 17.45 Concluding Remarks

We are looking forward to seeing you at Ellen Wilkinson Building!

Elena Anna Spagnuolo (University of Manchester),

Huimin Zhong (University of Manchester),

Magdalena Kampert (University of Glasgow)