OCCT TT 2022 - Week 2 Updates
Good afternoon!
On the evening of Wednesday of Third Week (11th May) we have two exciting events: This term's Fiction and Other Minds Seminar welcomes cognitive psychologist Professor Joseph Glicksohn of Bar Ilan University, and literary scholar Professor Chanita Goodblatt of Ben Gurion University in the Negev, who will be presenting their collaborative research on “Gestalt Psychology and Cognitive Literary Studies.” Our other event centres on the work of Italian Poets in the UK. This is the launch and choral presentation of the bilingual anthology Alibi, as well as a poetry reading. Co-editors and poets Marta Arnaldi and Luca Paci will present the project together with poet Gezim Hajdari and Professor Peter Hainsworth, the author of the anthology’s Afterword. A number of poets and translators featured in the anthology will read and discuss their texts. We will reflect on the identitarian, political and ethical role of poetry at a time of global displacement. Both promise to feature fascinating discussions, so please come along! All are welcome.
Our Discussion Group session last Monday featured Mohini Gupta, who discussed her Hindi translations of Vikram Seth’s English poetry, led an engaging masterclass in translational decision-making, and had our session's attendee's writing translations of their own. A big thank you to Mohini and everyone who came along!
And in other news, this week the Longlist for the 2022 Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize was announced! Congratulations to all of the translators selected. Be sure to look out, later in May, for the annoucement of the Shortlist!
Calls for Papers and Events
[1] Event: A Form of ‘Life Performance’: Dramaturgies of Solidarity and Resistance Exploring Refugee Experiences.
A Reimagining Performance Network Event
Tuesday 10 May, 2.30-4.30 pm
Tsuzuki Theatre, St Anne’s College, Woodstock Road, OX2 6HS
This research seminar will explore how real personal narratives are deployed in two different performances that tell the stories of forced migration and resettlement: each are devised with refugee-actors and draw on their lived experiences. Focussing on Queens of Syria (Refuge Production and Developing Artists 2016) and All the Beds I Have Slept In (Phosphoros Theatre, 2021), researchers Dr Amanda Stuart Fisher and Kate Duffy-Syedi will consider how modes of self-narration used in both productions dramaturgically navigate the binary of self and other to enact a dynamic and affecting negotiation of the personal and the political in a form of ‘life performance’.
Speakers: Dr Amanda Stuart Fisher (Reader in Contemporary Theatre and Performance, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama) and Kate Duffy-Syedi (Co-Director Phosphoros Theatre and PhD Candidate Royal Central School of Speech and Drama)
Respondents: Professor Elleke Boehmer (Faculty of English and Centre for Life Writing, University of Oxford) and Yousif M. Quasiyeh (Faculty of English and author of Writing the Camp, Broken Sleep Books, 2021)
The event is free and open to all, run on relaxed principles, and refreshments will be provided midway through the event.
Further information and free registration: https://torch.ox.ac.uk/event/a-form-of-life-performance-dramaturgies-of-solidarity-and-resistance-in-exploring-refugee-expe
Please email Dr Hannah Simpson at hannah.simpson@st-annes.ox.ac.uk or reimaginingperformance@torch.ox.ac.uk with any queries about the event.
[2] Event: European Jewish Writers in Translation - Bilingual reading with Q & A
Thursday 12 May, 3.30 to 5 p.m., in-person at the University of Exeter or online
University of Exeter Translation Festival 2022, in partnership with the University of Warwick's Connecting Cultures Global Research Priority and the Warwick Writing Programme
Register here for in-person or virtual attendance:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/european-jewish-writers-in-translation-tickets-318373272027
In the summer of 2021, five European Jewish writers and five literary translators participated in a virtual residency hosted by Jewish Book Week with the support of the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe. Over several weeks, writers and translators met online to discuss the translation into English of an extract from a work in progress. The languages represented were Dutch, French, German, Spanish and Polish. This event brings these writers and translators together once more to discuss the process of collaborating on the translations and the state of contemporary European Jewish writing. The event is supported by the University of Exeter and the Connecting Cultures research cluster at the University of Warwick.
The writers are: Daniella Pinkstein, Tomer Dreyfus, Dory Sontheimer, Patrycja Dołowy, Femmetje de Wind (not in attendance).
The translators are: Anna Blasiak, Alice Tetley-Paul, Chantal Wright, Rachel Toogood, Vineet Lal.
Biographies of the writers and translators can be found here:
https://jewishbookweek.com/prizes-and-awards/writers-in-translation/
[3] CfPs: “Rethinking Cinema and Film History Through Global and Digital Approaches (early 20th century-1970s)”
This conference is framed within the research activities of the European StG project “Social Networks of the Past. Mapping Hispanic and Lusophone Literary Modernity (1898-1959)” and the Global Literary Studies Research Lab, with the valuable contribution of Prof. Malte Hagener from the Philipps-Universität Marburg.
The conference aims at contributing to analyse and push further the following issues: 1) global perspectives in film studies and, more specifically, in relation to how global and digital approaches can help rethink film history and grapple with hegemonic discourses; 2) and case studies that may reflect on these issues through the analysis of less-studied geographical scales and less well-known cinematic projects and spaces of sociability, such as film clubs and film criticism.
Dates: 5-7 October 2022
Place: IN3-UOC, Seu Poblenou, Barcelona, Spain.
Should you have any doubt or would like to submit an abstract proposal, please do not hesitate to contact us to the following address:
globalcinemahistoryconference@gmail.com
Our already confirmed speakers are Valeria Camporesi (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Michael Cowan (Iowa University), Rielle Navitski (University of Georgia), Julia Noordegraaf (University of Amsterdam), Masha Salazkina (Concordia University), Georgina Torello (Universidad de la República, Uruguay), Daniela Treveri Gennari (Oxford Brookes University). And the deadline for submitting an abstract proposal will be June 10st, 2022.
