OCCT—Week 1 Updates

We hope you’re enjoying the sunshine! Next week, on Monday, we have our first Discussion Group Session of the term. Join us, and Tinashe Mushakavanhu, for lunch and a discussion of the question ‘What is Shona?’ Part philosophical musings, part critical reflections, this discussion will track and trace how a mega colonial language that did not exist before 1929 was created over 90 years ago to subdue various groups of people in the territory that is now Zimbabwe.

We also would like to remind you all about the Prismatic Jane Eyre translation competition from University of Oxford and the Stephen Spender Trust:

A celebration of all languages spoken in homes and taught in schools across the UK.
Students in KS3-5 / S1-6 asked to translate selected passages from Jane Eyre into a poem in any other language.
Up to 100 winners will be published in a print/online anthology.
General resources and language-specific resources for Arabic, French, Polish, Spanish available for teachers and for independent study.
The competition is not designed to be a test of grammar or vocabulary, but how students can reimagine the selected passage from Jane Eyre in a different language, and through a new form. See competition details for competition passages.
Deadline: Tuesday 1 March, 2022.
Register interest via online form (no obligation to run competition; prospective entrants may also register interest).
Contact: pjeschools@ell.ox.ac.uk

The Prismatic Jane Eyre Schools Project and the Stephen Spender Trust are running a translation competition, which celebrates all languages spoken in homes and taught in schools across the UK.

Entrants are asked to produce a poem in another language inspired by a selected passage from Jane Eyre. The competition accepts submissions in any language from learners in Key Stages 3-5/S1-6. Up to 100 entries to the competition will be published in a printed anthology, which will also be made available online.

The competition guidelines and selected passages are available on this webpage. The competition is not designed to be a test of grammar or vocabulary, but how students can reimagine the selected passage from Jane Eyre in a different language and through a new form. The deadline for entries to the competition is 1 March 2022.

The Prismatic Jane Eyre team have developed general and language-specific resources (Arabic, French, Polish, Spanish), for use by teachers and students. Interested teachers and prospective entrants can receive regular updates about the competition by registering their interest using this form. For queries, contact PJEschools@ell.ox.ac.uk

Calls for Papers and Events:

[1] Call for Applications: Bristol Translates 2022

Bristol Translates 2022: applications open

We are thrilled to announce that applications are now open for the Bristol Translates Literary Translation Summer School, which will take place online from Monday 4 to Friday 8 July, 2022.

The 2022 programme will include workshops from Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish – plus a multi-language workshop run by Daniel Hahn – to take place over three days. These sessions will be complemented by two full days of talks and panels on literary translation, including a keynote speech from Professor Susan Bassnett, panels with publishers, and themed sessions on translating for the theatre, translating children’s and young adult literature, the use of CAT tools in literary translation, translating video games, and poetry translation. There will be expert speakers discussing translator contracts in the UK and in the USA, a presentation by English PEN, and Comma Press’s annual translation competition.

Participants from around the world are welcome to apply. All workshops will be into English, and excellent command of English is required. The full fee for the course is £315; early-bird fee, for applications prior to Thursday 31 March, 2022, is £280. Current University of Bristol students are able to participate at a discounted rate, and several bursaries are available for low-income applicants. The deadline for bursary applications is Monday 28 February 2022.

For full eligibility criteria and FAQs, please visit http://www.bristol.ac.uk/sml/translation-studies/bristol-translates/

[2] Event: Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation Book Club 2022

Our book club meets once a month to discuss some of the best recently translated literature from around the world. New members are always welcome and may drop in and out as it suits. Our books this term come from South Korea, Slovenia and Guadaloupe, see below:

February: Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin, translated from French by Aneesa Abbas Higgins.

March: The Fig Tree by Goran Vojnović, translated from Slovene by Olivia Hellewell.

April: Waiting for the Waters to Rise by Maryse Condé, translated from French by Ricard Philcox.

For more information about the book club and to register, please click here.

Did you know that Silver and Gold Friends of Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation receive advance copies of all our book club choices? You can find out more about becoming a Friend or Patron here.

[3] Call for Entries: R. Gapper Postgraduate Essay Prize 2022

A prize is awarded annually by the Society for French Studies for the best essay submitted by a postgraduate student at a university based in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland. The award includes:

a cash prize of £750
expenses-paid travel to the next annual conference of the Society for French Studies
mention in the French Studies Bulletin and on the Society for French Studies website

To be eligible for submission the essay must be:

entirely the student’s own work and submitted in unrevised form
written in the previous academic year by a postgraduate student currently registered (or within six months of registration having terminated)
addressing a topic within the scope of the discipline of French studies
written in either English or French, with any quotations from French supplied in the original language
up to 6,000 words in length (including notes but excluding bibliography)
word-processed with numbered pages
submitted without the name of the student, or institution, appearing in the essay
submitted by the university, with the student’s agreement, as one of up to three annual submissions per university
accompanied by a separate coversheet
submitted on the understanding that no correspondence will be entered into by the Society regarding individual essays.

If a draft thesis chapter is entered, candidates are reminded to ensure that it can be read as a stand-alone essay. Institutions submitting to the prize should download the coversheet from this page, and submit each essay and coversheet as a separate file to Fionnuala Sinclair at Finn.Sinclair@ed.ac.uk. The deadline has now been extended to Monday 31st January, 2022.

https://www.sfs.ac.uk/prizes/r-gapper-postgraduate-essay-prize

[4] Event: ‘Who Cares?’ In Contemporary Women’s Writing and Film

‘WHO CARES?’ In Contemporary Women’s Writing & Film

Session 1 - Care, (Geo)politics, and the Social

https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/25686

Monday 7 March, 2022

4pm - 5pm GMT

Online seminar series

Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing Seminar Series

Organisers: Dr Jasmine D Cooper (Cambridge) & Dr Katie Pleming (Edinburgh)

‘Who cares?’ speaks to a paradox at the heart of ethical and political discourses of care in the contemporary. It is an interrogation of who performs care, an examination of the intersections of capital, care, and exploitation, a making visible of those upon whom the burden of care falls. Yet it also captures feelings of apathy - both individual and institutional - which seem to mark the contemporary. While the institutional refusal to care results in forms of systemic violence, the individual and collective turn away from care is more complex, bound up with questions of privilege, agency, and resistance. While a politics of care may align with progressive politics, narratives of care are easily appropriated or inverted: co-opted by reactionary, nationalist political groups. As such, care orbits a crucial negotiation between self and other, between self-centredness and other-centeredness. It is linked to vulnerability and forms of precarity. Ultimately, care speaks to relationality: how we relate to others, to ourselves, to the Earth, and to non-human lifeforms.

Seminar Programme

We approach the discussion of care and the issues it raises across three broad topics:

Session 1: Care, (Geo)politics, and the Social
Date: Monday 7 March, 2022
Time: 4pm GMT
Speakers: Sophie Lewis (Brooklyn Institute for Social Research; Visiting Scholar, GSWS Penn) and Ally Day (University of Toledo)

Session 2: Care and the Non-Human
Date: Monday 21 March, 2022
Time: 4pm GMT
Speakers: Jami Weinstein (Uppsala University) and Iggy Cortez (Vanderbilt University)
Session 3: Care and Neoliberalism
Date: Monday 28 March, 2022
Time: 4pm GMT
Speakers: Lisa Downing (University of Birmingham), Alice Blackhurst (St John’s College, Cambridge) and Emma Dowling (University of Vienna)

All are welcome to attend these free online seminars. You will need to register in advance to receive the online joining link. To attend the first session starting at 4pm GMT on Monday 7 March click here to register.