Call for Papers

If you know Swedish and work on the translation of children’s literature, you might be interested in this call for papers.

Översättning för en ny generation

4-6 december 2014

Välkomna till Översättning för en ny generation, vid Högskolan Dalarna!

Workshoppen är ett samarbete mellan ämnena Franska, Litteraturvetenskap, Svenska, forskningsprofilen Kultur, Identitet och Gestaltning vid Högkolan Dalarna och Översättarprogrammet vid Uppsala universitet.

Svensk barn- och ungdomslitteratur har ett gott rykte internationellt och många titlar översätts varje år över hela världen. Även om antalet översättningar har varierat volymmässigt de senaste decennierna har svensk barn- och ungdomslitteratur varit en återkommande favorit i förlagsmiljö utomlands. 2013 var Sverige dessutom hedersgäst på Bolognas Barnlitteraturmässa. Svenska språkets relativt marginella ställning i världen leder dock till att det inte finns ett obegränsat antal översättare som kan ta sig an uppdraget att översätta en barnbok från svenska. Tillgången på översättare, liksom generationsskiften bland dessa, är alltså en viktig faktor som inte skall förbises i sammanhanget.

Syftet med symposiet är att särskilt fokusera urvalskriterier inom olika marknader samt att belysa de översättningsmarknader där det sker ett generationsskifte bland översättarna vad gäller barn- och ungdomslitteratur. Huvudfokus ligger på översättning från svenska till världens olika språk. Eftersom det finns en mycket nära kulturell och språklig skandinavisk samhörighet (samma översättare arbetar till exempel ofta från mer än ett skandinaviskt språk), kommer också symposiet att behandla översättningen av norska och danska barn- och ungdomsböcker. Symposiet kommer även att belysa översättningen av barn och ungdomsböcker utifrån vidare översättningsvetenskapliga frågeställningar. En första reflektion kan skissas från frågorna nedan. Denna förteckning är inte uttömmande och ytterligare förslag på frågor tas gärna emot för övervägande:

 vilka böcker översätts?

 hur relaterar översättningarna till den inhemska produktionen och översättningar från andra språk?

 finns det kulturella faktorer som försvårar översättningen?

 är det möjligt att särskilja olika strategier vid översättning till olika språk?

 hur påverkas översättningarna av den nya generationens läsare?

 finns det ett gap mellan det som accepteras av barn- och ungdomslitteratur i Sverige och i övriga världen?

Symposiet utgör ett unikt tillfälle för forskare, översättarstudenter, översättare, och andra intresserade av svensk barn- och ungdomslitteratur att diskutera dess spridning i en globaliserad värld. Språket vid workshopen kommer att vara svenska, men vi välkomnar också sessionsföredrag på norska och/eller danska.

Som plenarföreläsare kommer B.J.Epstein, lektor i litteratur och public engagement vid University of East Anglia i England, att medverka. Hon är författare till många publikationer, inklusive tre böcker, varav Translating Expressive Language in Children’s Literature, som bygger på hennes forskning om översättningen av barnböcker. Hon har också redigerat, korrekturläst eller översatt många böcker från svenska till engelska och var redaktör för Northern Lights: Translation in the Nordic Countries, som handlar om översättning av de nordiska språken.

Vi kommer även att ha förmånen att lyssna på Åsa Warnqvist, från Svenska Barnboksinstitutet, som bl.a. kommer att presentera den samtida svenska marknaden för barn- och ungdomsböcker, och Masako Hayakawa Thor från Högskolan Dalarna, som kommer att berätta om sitt arbete som redaktör/förläggare på ett barnboksförlag i Japan och som översättare av några svenska bilderböcker till japanska.

För den som vill delta i workshoppen med föredrag gäller följande:

Sista dag för inskickande av abstract: 2014.03.24

Svar till författarna efter granskning av kommittén: ca 2014.06.19

Format för abstract: En sammanställning av cirka 20 rader på svenska. I dokumentet ska också finnas uppgift om namn, institution, titel, författarens kontaktuppgifter (e-postadress) och föredragets titel. Tre nyckelord bör också nämnas.

Presentationen kommer att vara 20 minuter.

Förslagen ska skickas till: ofnyg@du.se

För mer information, se www.du.se/ofnyg

Translation and Food

I’ve long been fascinated by food and food writing/translation, as I’ve posted about here before.

So you can imagine how excited I was to read about this upcoming conference on food and translation. Some of you might be interested in attending and/or submitting a paper.

Call for Papers

You might be interested in this call for papers or in simply attending the conference: Crime in Translation Park Building, University of Portsmouth Saturday 9 November 2013 Plenary speakers: Dr Karen Seago (City University, London) Dr Yvonne Fowler (Aston University) A selection of papers will be published in Jostrans, issue 22, July 2014 The translation of crime fiction is all around us, from the current wave of Scandinavian and European crime novels, film and television to recent screen adaptations of classic crime fiction such as Sherlock Holmes. But it’s not only in fiction that translation meets crime. The police and the courts rely heavily on public service interpreters and translators. Translation itself is criminalised in various ways, e.g. in relation to copyright infringement, legal proceedings against translators of ‘problematic’ texts and various forms of piracy. The 2013 Portsmouth Translation Conference aims to bring the different facets of translation and crime together in an interdisciplinary one-day conference, allowing exchange of ideas between translators, criminologists, interpreters, literary scholars and translation researchers. We invite proposals for 20-minute papers and 60-minute practical workshops on any area connecting crime and translation or interpreting. We welcome approaches from practitioners as well as researchers. Topics may include (but are not limited to): The challenges of translating crime fiction Subtitling and dubbing thrillers Crime, translation and the law ‘True crime’ in translation The role of translation and interpreting in criminal justice Translation by and for criminals Translation as a crime Translation and forensic linguistics The representation of translation and interpreting in crime fiction and film Enquiries and/or 300-word abstracts should be sent to translation@port.ac.uk by 15 June 2013

Call for Papers

Reading the Target: Translation as Translation University of East Anglia School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing School of Language and Communication Studies 23rd and 24th March 2013 The fifth Postgraduate Translation Symposium at the University of East Anglia aims to examine translation as a form of literature in its own right: since Lawrence Venuti’s influential work on the translator’s visibility (1995), much progress has been made in the academic study of translation in this regard, but many critics and publishers remain reluctant to acknowledge the translator’s involvement in the creation of a new text or the status of these texts as anything more than a duplicate in another language. The symposium aims to explore the following questions: what are the effects of cultural contexts, literary systems and philosophical and ideological cues on the appreciation of translated literature? What are the power structures and hierarchies that translated literature must negotiate in order to achieve acceptance? What are the benefits to a culture that acknowledges the presence of translations within its literary canon? We invite submissions for presentations by postgraduate research students and academics across a wide range of disciplines. Fields of particular interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Performance and adaptations - Cross-genre translation - The diversity of overt forms of translation - Concepts of authorship in translation - The translation of poetry - The role of translation in religious texts - Pseudo-translation - Ethical and political considerations in translation - The visibility of translation in modern forms of text and media (Subtitling, Films, Games) Please send proposals of no more than 250 words (with bibliographical references and a short biographical note) for 20-minute papers to translationsymposium@uea.ac.uk by Friday 7 December 2012. Please address all correspondence to: Lina Fisher translationsymposium@uea.ac.uk University of East Anglia School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing Norwich NR4 7TJ The Organising Committee: Nozomi Abe, Moira Eagling, Lina Fisher, James Hadley

Nordic Translation Conference

In 2008, I organized the first ever Nordic Translation Conference. I’m working together with Dr. Gudrun Rawoens on organizing the second one now. Here is the first call for papers.

Nordic Translation Conference 2013

Call for Papers

The second Nordic Translation Conference will take place on 4, 5, and 6 April 2013 at the University of East Anglia, in Norwich, England.

This quinquennial event is solely dedicated to the particular challenges and pleasures of translating between and among the Nordic countries, which are often closely related culturally, if not always linguistically. It is open to academics, students, translators, publishers, and others who work with the Nordic languages. The first such conference took place in London at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies in 2008 and it resulted in the book Northern Lights: Translation in the Nordic Countries (Peter Lang, 2009).

The keynote speakers in 2013 will include Andrew Chesterman, Riitta Oittinen, and Anna Mauranen. As in 2008, there will be workshops, talks, panels, and dual-language readings. Both academics and practising translators are encouraged to attend and present at the conference.

The conference will look at literary and non-literary translation of all kinds, including interpreting and subtitling, both between various Nordic languages and also between English and the Nordic languages. Nordic here includes Danish, Faroese, Finnish, Greenlandic, Icelandic, Norwegian, any of the Sámi dialects, and Swedish. Topics can include, but are not limited to, specific linguistic issues involved in translation/interpretation between two or more languages, analysis of particular texts/genres, professional issues, translating texts by or about minority groups, the translator/interpreter’s role, and the effect of cultural similarities/differences among Nordic countries.

In addition, the conference will include several workshops on relevant topics, such as working with specific languages or kinds of texts, using computer tools, finding reference materials, and so on. Those interested in running workshops are also invited to submit proposals.

Please send proposals (250-400 words) for workshops by 1 June 2012 and for conference papers by 15 August 2012 to B.J. Epstein and Gudrun Rawoens by e-mail at conference@nordictranslation.net or by regular mail to B.J. Epstein at the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, England, NR4 7TJ. Along with the proposal, please include a brief biographical note.

Conference details are available at http://www.nordictranslation.net. For ease of communication, English should be the primary conference language.

Call for Papers

Call for Contributions:
'It just doesn't sound right.' - Translation and Intuition
Translation is a problem with two horns: to be caught on the point of free and apparently
subconscious decision; or to be pinned by the mechanical application of theory. But perhaps
this is not a helpful dichotomy. Rather, we would like to ask where in the muddle translation
actually happens, and how balance is struck between conflicting thought processes.
'It just doesn't sound right' is both the catchphrase and bane of the practising translator. A lot
stands behind these apparently throwaway words, and we would like to invite considerations of
how they might be unpacked.
Areas of interest include, but are not restricted to:
- spirit and affect - how can poetics account for the sublime, or literature's affective
power, the hairs that stand on the back of the neck?
- intentionality - the relationship between translator and author.
- preservation of non-standard features, especially in texts written to be read as if spoken.
- critical reception of translations, and the intuitive approval of translations that read smoothly.
- what is strange about translated language, and why?
- the stuff and substance of language - can we understand or only intuit the iconicity of sound?
Submission details
Please submit your papers to norwichpapers@uea.ac.uk
Deadline: Friday April 29th, 2011

Format: Word documents or Rich Text Format (.rtf). Please follow the Harvard style of
referencing. Articles should be between 4000 and 5000 words long, written in English.

Call for Submissions

It is great to see journals actively seeking translated works or texts about translation. Thank you to Erika Dreifus for sending me the following call for submissions:

Hi all,

We're very pleased to invite submissions of poetry, short fiction, essays, visual poetry, photography, artwork and video for a translation-themed issue. The deadline is December 6, and the issue will begin to appear online after the New Year. All submissions must be made via qarrtsiluni’s new submissions manager.

In addition to work translated into English, we encourage a universal interpretation, including though not limited to movement between and within cultural fields and from signifier (code, symbol, signal) to signified (message, meaning, transcription). Translation being inherent in all acts of writing/reading, both semantic and non-verbal, we are interested in short, non-academic essays relevant to such readings and mis-readings. Please also send adaptations, definitions, conversions, and homophonic translations. Text submissions should not exceed three poems or short prose pieces, or some combination thereof, for a maximum of three single-spaced pages in .doc or .rtf format.

For translations, include originals, permission status, and a bio for the original author as well as your own. Translations from any language are welcome. We look forward to reading or viewing your work.

—Nick Admussen, Nathalie Boisard-Beudin, Nick Carbó, Alex Cigale, and Ayesha Saldanha
See editors' bios and more at the complete CFS: http://wp.me/p6kvT-2Ae

Calls for Papers

I am on the editorial committee for In Other Words, which is published by the British Centre for Literary Translation. I will be guest editing the next issue and co-editing the following one, so I’d like to invite submissions of papers for those issues. Here are the calls:

Translating Queers/Queering Translations

We welcome article submissions on any aspect of 'Translating
Queers/Queering Translations', which can include but is not limited to:

- Whether lgbtq writers/subjects ought to be translated differently
than other texts and, if so, how

- How queer theory influences translation and translation theory

- Whether a queer form of translation should be developed

- What it means to queer translation or translators

Articles should be a maximum of 4000 words; style guidelines are provided in the back of each issue of In Other Words.
Further queries should be addressed to the guest editor at:
b.epstein@uea.ac.uk. Deadline for submissions is 1 October 2010.


Translation and Philosophy

We welcome article submissions on any aspect of 'Translation and Philosophy', which can include but is not limited to:

- Translating philosophical texts

- What philosophers say about translation and what philosophy can contribute to the act of translation

- Philosophies of translation

- Philosophical and ethical issues in translation

Articles should be a maximum of 4000 words; style guidelines are provided in the back of each issue of In Other Words. Further queries should be addressed to the guest editor at: b.epstein@uea.ac.uk. Deadline for submissions is 1 March 2011.