Literature and Translation Conference Program (Literature and Translation)

Literature and Translation Conference Program

(as at 5 July 2011; subject to change)

NB: some paper titles have been abbreviated for reasons of space, full titles will be included in the abstract booklet.

Monday 11 July

8.30-9.30	Collection of conference folders, name tags (H foyer – check-in desk)
9.30-9.45	Welcome and introduction (K3.21): Pauline Nestor (Senior Associate Dean and Associate Dean Research, Faculty of Arts, Monash University), Helen Groth (President, AAL)
9.45-11.00	Keynote address: DAVID DAMROSCH, Translation and World Literature (K3.21) Chair: Brian Nelson
11.00-11.30	Morning tea (HB Function Space – basement)
	A (HB32)	B (H2.37)	C (HB39)	D (H2.38)	E (H2.20)	F (H2.22)
11.30-1.00	Bicultural writing (I) Chair: Rita Wilson Anna MOSTOVAIA Ayn Rand as a writer-translator in We the Living and The Fountainhead Brigid MAHER Anglo-Italian crime fiction: what can translators learn from pseudotranslation? Maria Cristina SECCIA Translating Caterina Edwards: the overlap of two cultures	Textual practices (I) Chair: Sue Kossew Dvir ABRAMOVICH Translating Hebrew literature: culture, history and text Marius SWART Telling Afrikaans stories in English: investigating the procedures of literary translators Angela KÖLLING Translation as window on the world	Gender matters (I) Chair: Shani Tobias Kacey LIU Jianwen Gender in translation: the migration of power in the translation of feminist fiction Alessandra CALVANI Lady Wortley Montagu: from England to Italy S. VIJAYALETCHUMY The effect of the translator’s gender on translation evaluation in Malaysia	The translation process Chair: Jim Hlavac Marc ORLANDO Translation and activism: the case of Mau Moko Abbas BRASHI usan Glaspell’s ‘Trifles’: Arabic translation and commentary Royall TYLER To make it sing: translating Japan’s great medieval epic	Author-translators (I) Chair: Gillian Ania Virginia KWOK The translator as writer Aleksondra HULTQUIST The role of desire in Eliza Haywood’s La belle Assemblée Wenjing LI When writers translate – a case study in China	Multimodal translation: words, sounds, images Chair: Helen Groth Cathy SELL Translations of museum texts representing classical Japanese literature Anna GIBBS Elemental: translation as phase transition Joel GILBERTHORPE Literature as translation

1.00-2.00	Lunch (HB Function Space)
	A (HB32)	B (H2.37)	C (HB39)	D (H2.38)	E (H2.20)	F (H2.22)
2.00-3.00	Bicultural writing (II) Chair: Rita Wilson Loredana POLEZZI Of migrants and working men: Pietro di Donato between US and Italy Reshmi LAHIRI-ROY ‘Reconciling identities’: the Bengali migrant woman in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake	Translation as metaphor Chair: Helen Groth Sarah COMYN ‘Ritually unreadable’: aestheticising the economic in Cosmopolis Lindsay TUGGLE ‘The words unsaid’: swallowing the untranslatable in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass	Gender matters (II) Chair: Lilit Thwaites Elen TURNER peech from silence? Feminist anthologies of Indian women’s fiction in translation Elaine Tzu-yi LEE Feminist translator as a boundary pusher: three Taiwan translations of The Color Purple	Experimental writing and translation Chair: Clara Tuite Mark STEVEN To right praise: Zukofsky’s Lenin Corey WAKELING ‘Only her mouth could move’: the embodied disembodiments of actor Billie Whitelaw’s collaborations with Samuel Beckett	Author-translators (II) Chair: Kate Rigby Elisabet Titik MURTISARI The making of early Pramoedya: from translating to writing Luigi GUSSAGO Cesare De Marchi and the author / translator dilemma	Censorship and ideology Chair: Jim Hlavac Belinda CALDERONE Cutting out the ‘nasty’: the translator as censor in Italian and French fairy tales Feng CUI Translation under Communist China – using the ‘First National Conference of Translation’ as an example
3.00-3.30	Afternoon tea (HB Function Space)

	A (HB32)	B (H2.37)	C (HB39)	D (H2.38)	E (H2.20)	F (H2.22)
3.30-5.00	Translating style and voice Chair: Shani Tobias Leah GERBER Erich Kästner’s Emil und die Detektive in English translation Suzie GIBSON Translation, mediation and difficulty in James’s The Turn of the Screw Andrew READ Translation, adaptation and literary identity: Pullman’s The Golden Compass	Textual practices (II) Chair: Clara Tuite Janani KALYANI V. Translating culture in Tamil Dalit literature Jane SOUTHWOOD & Adam RUSSELL Jane Austen and Marguerite Yourcenar in translation Roozbeh GUITOO Linguistic and cultural untranslatability in Sadegh Hedayat’s ‘Dash-Akol’	Gender matters (III) Chair: Chris Worth Barbara PAUK Paul et Virginie’s migration to England Joy WALLACE Flagging down the flâneuse in Hazel Smith’s poems of the city	Reflections and refractions Chair: Chris Danta Maria T. SANCHEZ The mirror and the image: translating the translator Anthony UHLMANN The figure of refraction in theories of fiction and translation Robert PHIDDIAN A project in cultural translation	Author-translators (III) Chair: Kate Rigby Leanne GRECH Helplessly tragic: a Wildean approach to the AgamemNon Tom TOREMANS Genial coincidence: Coleridge and the translation of German transcendentalism	Translation and conflict Chair: Marc Orlando Harry AVELING The paratext to the Indonesian translation of the Vietnamese Novel without a Name Narelle FLETCHER From fact to fiction: translating the 1994 genocide in Rwanda Ali Mumin AHAD and John GATT-RUTTER The she-camel of Somali oral political poetry
5.00-6.30	Annual General Meetings of AALITRA (5.00 HB32) and of AAL (5.45 HB39)
6.30	Conference dinner (by MamaDuke, at the conference venue)

Tuesday 12 July

9.00-9.30	Late registration (H foyer – registration desk)
	A (HB32)	B (H2.37)	C (HB39)	D (H2.38)	E (H2.20)	F (H2.22)
9.30-11.00	Cross-fertilisation and transmission (I) Chair: Anthony Uhlmann Emily FINLAY ‘Dialectical suppression’ in translation Chris DANTA Animal bachelors and animal brides: fabulous metamorphosis in Kafka and Garnett Slobodanka VLADIV-GLOVER Bakhtin’s model of parody as a means of transmission (and translation) of cultural forms	Poetry (I) Chair: Harry Aveling Peter GROVES Translating rhythm Lidia RURA Atypical language in literary translation: the English and Dutch translations of the Russian poet Alexander Galich	Australia as translated and translating (I) Chair: Leah Gerber Rita WILSON Terra Australis Incognita even now? Shaping images of Australia through literary translation Nataša KARANFILOVIĆ A clockwise smile of the Australian Nobel Prize winner Chris CONTI Translating the aesthetic vision of Voss	Quasi-intralingual translation Chair: Sonya Pollard Hagai DAGAN The inner translation of the Bible literature from Hebrew to Hebrew Rainier LANSELLE Literature as translation within the same language – the case of classical China	Classic texts through time Chair: Denise Formica Verity Corinna BOX More than metaphrase Nirupama PRAKASH Translation as a medium for preservation of culture and social values: Ramayana and Mahabarata	Literary influence through translation Chair: Lilit Thwaites Wanlong GAO The translator as creator of a new national literature: the influence of Lin Shu’s translations on Chinese fiction Daniel C. STRACK tylistic and cultural repercussions of Tōson’s reception of Turgenev in translation Hossein EIDIZADEH William Faulkner and modern Iranian writers
11.00-11.30	Morning tea (HB Function Space)

A (HB32)

B (H2.37)

C (HB39)

D (H2.38)

E (H2.20)

11.30-1.00

Cross-fertilisation and transmission (II)

Chair: Anthony Uhlmann

Nasrin MAHOUTCHI-HOSAINI
Advantages and disadvantages of translation

Felix SIDDELL
Buzzati’s French connection: translation as a catalyst in a literary career

Miguel NENEVÉ
Pauline Melville’s The Ventriloquist’s Tale and the English translation of Mario de Andrade’s Macunaima

Poetry (II)

Chair: Harry Aveling

Gillian ANIA
Between assonance and rhyme: on translating sound in Giovanna Capucci’s Twin Towers: poesie

Michael BUHAGIAR
Mallarmé and his translators: the contribution of Christopher Brennan

Dan DISNEY
Impossible transmutations? Heidegger, Dryden, and the ‘Orphic gesture’ in Don Paterson’s Orpheus

Australia as translated and translating (II)

Chair: Leah Gerber

Shani TOBIAS

Shaping perceptions of Australia in Japan through literary translation

Denise FORMICA
Australian literature and the world republic of letters

TIm DOLIN
ettler-colonial translation zones: Victorian fiction and its Australian readers

Culture, globalisation and language politics

Chair: Brigid Maher

Radhiah Zaman CHOWDHURY
Harry Potter and the ‘global literature’? British culture and imperialism in translation

Nandi BHATIA
‘All just scratches and dots’: Indian writing in English and (mis)translations of Urdu

Lal CHAMAN
Translation and ‘world literature’

Creation and creativity (I)

Chair: Chris Danta

Joel SCOTT
Writing difference

Luke JOHNSON
Reconstructing the figure of the author in translated texts

H.J. van LEEUWEN
Translation as creative revealing

1.00-2.00

Lunch (HB Function Space)

	A (HB32)	B (H2.37)	C (HB39)	D (H2.38)	E (H2.20)
2.00-3.30	Cross-fertilisation and transmission (III) Chair: Brigid Maher Lesa SCHOLL Translation in dialogue: Charlotte Brontë’s Belgian essays Shubhra TRIPATHI The Ramayana: migrating across cultures Roger NICHOLSON Translatio studii in Henryson’s Aesopic fables	What gets translated (and what doesn’t) Chair: Gillian Ania Natalie GALEEVA Translated literature in textual grid of a culture Kader KONUK Translating humanism: the Turkish translation project 1939-1947 Sally-Ann SPENCER Prizing translation: book awards and literary translation	Australia as translated and translating (III) Chair: Denise Formica Laura OLCELLI Geographical and linguistic disorientation in Western Australia: the response of George Fletcher Moore Matthew LORENZON Translation and aesthetics in the origins of Australian criminal anthropology Konstandina DOUNIS Transferrings across the shadows... widening the parameters of the national literary canon	Self-translation Chair: Marc Orlando Andrea BANDHAUER ‘Tawada Yoko does not exist’: Yoko Tawada’s translations Ian CAMPBELL Translation of poetry from English to Indonesian: the case study of ‘Leaving Beirut’ / ‘Meninggalkan Beirut’ Jack ROSS The twenty-year masterclass: Paul Celan’s correspondence with Gisèle Celan-Lestrange	Creation and creativity (II) Chair: Sonya Pollard Emiko OKAYAMA Between translation and adaptation: Bakin and Suikoden Giuseppe Manuel BRESCIA Translation as re-creation
3.30-4.00	Afternoon tea (HB Function Space)
4.00-5.00	Plenary discussion session: Translation and world literature: shaping the future David Damrosch, Brian Nelson, Rita Wilson Chair: Helen Groth (K3.21)
5.00	Drinks…

Conference program (as at 5 Jul 2011) (157 KB)