OCCT TT 2022 - Week 5 Updates
Good afternoon!
The remainder of the term is filled with exciting events, so be sure to keep an eye on our events page!
Next week, for instance, we will be joined in our Discussion Group by Aleksandra and Michael Parker, who will speak about their work as translators of Polish literature into English. They will share with us their reflections on the method of collaborative translation, as well as adaptation of Polish-language literature to the needs of Anglophone audiences. We will hear about what first drew them to translation, and, in particular, what prompted the difficult task of translating Czesław Miłosz’s monumental biography.
Seventh Week features Oxford Translation Day 2022! There is still plenty of time to register for our free events, all of which are open to the public.
Be sure also to check out our three eighth week events, all of which explore and celebrate African texts and contexts: Dorothée Boulanger in our final Discussion Group Session of the term; an exciting panel on Publishing African Literature Today at St Hilda's College, and an online event to commemorate the Dakar Translation Symposium.
Calls for Papers and Events:
[1] Conference: Micel Serres: Thinking Beyond Boundaries
Maison Française d’Oxford on 16-17 June 2022.
The event will be held onsite and online. To enrol please visit: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/michel-serres-thinking-beyond-boundaries-tickets-287827308227
Michel Serres: Thinking beyond boundaries
Michel Serres was a polymath and interdisciplinarian avant la lettre, a poet-philosopher and académicien. Language for him was not simply a means of communication for his ideas; they originated in it, and figures of speech were his figure of thought. Hermes, the angels and the translators that pervade his works are all messengers that build bridges not only between disciplines but also between cultural time periods. This conference brings into dialogue a variety of perspectives from French, British and international scholars who will showcase the relevance of Michel Serres’s thought across a wide range of academic disciplines. It will explore how Michel Serres’s own brand of interdisciplinarity has renewed fields of enquiry as diverse as French studies and English Literature, Philosophy and the History of Science, Geography and Ecocriticism, Translation and Migration Studies.
Organising Committee:
Prof. Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (Université Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Dr. Henriette Korthals Altes (MFO)
Dr. Mogens Laerke (CNRS/MFO)
Dr. Marie Thébaud-Sorger (CNRS)
This event has been made possible thanks to the generous support of the Fondation Michel Serres.
For more information, please visit https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/michel-serres-thinking-beyond-boundaries-tickets-287827308227
[2] Call for Applications: Summer School: L’immaginario testuale. Poetiche dell’iconotesto
Summer school
L’immaginario testuale. Poetiche dell’iconotesto
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici / Università Roma Tre, Via Ostiense 234 / 15-16 settembre 2022
Partecipano: Daniela Brogi, Giuseppe Carrara, Ugo Fracassa, Giulio Iacoli, Luigi Marfè, Eloisa Morra, Chiara Portesine, Beatrice Seligardi, Beatrice Tomei, Andrea Torre, Patrizia Tosini, Nicoletta Vallorani, Monica Venturini
Nella recente tradizione della scuola estiva “In Teoria. Percorsi transdisciplinari”, che dal 2018 offre un’occasione formativa e di confronto multiprospettico su questioni di attualità nel dibattito intorno alla letteratura, l’edizione del 2022 pone a tema la relazione tra testo e immagine, nell’ambito degli studi visuali e della storia dell’arte e dell’editoria. In occasione della due giorni romana, studiosi ed esperti del settore entreranno in dialogo con gli iscritti, impegnati nei seminari, in una tavola rotonda e nell’incontro, a loro cura, con lo scrittore Angelo Ferracuti.
La summer school è principalmente rivolta a dottorandi, dottori di ricerca o assegnisti di formazione umanistica, impegnati, in Italia e all’estero, in ricerche di taglio interdisciplinare. L’iscrizione è aperta anche a studenti e laureati dei corsi di laurea magistrale. Nel corso delle due giornate, ai seminari dei singoli docenti seguirà una tavola rotonda e un incontro con l’autore, Angelo Ferracuti. Giovedì 15 settembre è prevista una cena sociale per gli iscritti al corso.
Per partecipare è necessario avanzare la propria candidatura entro il 31 agosto 2022. I candidati selezionati, fino al numero massimo di 15, verranno invitati a versare la quota di iscrizione entro il 7 settembre. Quota di iscrizione: 300 euro. La quota non copre le spese di viaggio. Per il soggiorno a Roma verranno segnalate strutture convenzionate. Tutte le attività si svolgeranno in presenza.
Per avanzare la propria candidatura è necessario inviare una e-mail all’indirizzo della segreteria del corso summerschool.dsu@uniroma3.it avendo cura di indicare: il proprio nome e cognome, l’Università di appartenenza, l’argomento della ricerca in corso con relativa breve descrizione, il nome del tutor (nel caso di tesi di dottorato) o del relatore (nel caso di tesi magistrale) e/o l’intitolazione del corso di laurea magistrale cui si è iscritti. A tale documentazione andrà allegata una breve lettera motivazionale. È previsto il pagamento on line della quota di iscrizione mediante la piattaforma pagoPA. A ciascun partecipante il Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici rilascerà, ai fini curriculari, un attestato di frequenza valido per il riconoscimento di 6 cfu.
Per informazioni:
InTeoria.IV.2022@gmail.com + ricerca.studiumanistici@uniroma3.it direttore del corso: prof. Ugo Fracassa
[3] CfPs: Reading Arendt Today
Virtual Symposium
Reading Arendt Today: Migration and Prejudice
20 January 2023, hosted by Maynooth University
Keynote speaker: Prof. Lyndsey Stonebridge (University of Birmingham, UK)
It has almost become a truism that the work of Hannah Arendt is a powerful theoretical guide to contemporary culture and politics. “How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment?”, wrote Jeffrey Isaac in 2016 in The Washington Post, when discussing Arendt’s seminal 1951 work The Origins of Totalitarianism. “The short answer is that we, too, live in dark times.” However, such contemporary evocations of Arendt may overlook the historical specificities of Arendt’s writing and thinking. This interdisciplinary symposium thus seeks to examine what it means to read Arendt today, particularly in relation to (forced) migration and prejudice.
Forced migration and displacement continue to affect millions across the world, including those forced to flee the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. Arendt’s own experience as a stateless refugee, following the rise of Nazism, was inextricable from the experience of antisemitism – and migration and refugeedom remain connected to forms of prejudice today. This may include contexts of violence against a specific ethnic group that necessitate refugeedom; or forms of prejudice against refugees or other migrants within their ‘new’ country, for example, denial of education opportunities or the right to work.
This virtual (online) symposium will explore how Arendt’s writing may help navigate the intersection of migration and prejudice in both historical and contemporary contexts. To what extent, or in what ways, does Arendt’s writing speak to contemporary instances of forced migration? How does Arendt’s work help us to understand the links between (forced) migration and prejudice? What might be gained from reading Arendt within her own historical context – or bringing her work to bear on other contexts? What does it mean to read Arendt on migration today?
Topics of discussion may include, but are not limited to:
- Ways in which Arendt’s thought might illuminate (responses to) contemporary migrantphobia
- The applicability of Arendt’s work to contemporary and/or non-European contexts of forced migration
- ‘Statelessness’ in relation to other forms of refugeedom and migration
- Arendt’s own experiences of migration, antisemitism and migrantphobia
- Migration, human rights and legislative prejudice
- Antisemitism, and its relation to other forms of prejudice
- Arendt, Zionism and Palestine
- Arendt’s own prejudices, including Eurocentrism
We invite proposals for 20-minute papers on these or related topics. We welcome a wide range of responses, including papers taking a comparative approach, bringing Arendt’s work into dialogue with other contexts, literature or other artworks.
Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words, along with a short bio (up to 100 words), to edmund.chapman@mu.ie by 18 July.
This conference is part of the event series 'Migrantphobia and Antisemitism: Prejudice, Culture and Belonging', funded by the Irish Research Council as part of the project 'The Language of Refuge: Transnational Writers, Antisemitism and "Home"'.
