Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme Visiting Fellowship with Translator-in-Residence Polly Barton
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About this event
What can we learn from objects? What happens to texts, objects and artworks when they are transplanted, transported or transformed across cultures? How can using objects to think about translation help us to develop more critical and creative approaches to the study of Japanese and other languages?
Polly Barton is an award-winning writer and translator of Japanese literature and non-fiction. She is currently translator-in-residence at the Queen's College Translation Exchange, and a TORCH Visiting Fellow. Polly's year-long residency - entitled "The Visible Translator" - aims to make processes of translation visible, accessible and engaging for new audiences around Oxford, and to encourage dynamic and interdisciplinary thinking around translation across the University.
This "Translating Objects" workshop is a unique opportunity to explore how engaging further with translation - particularly in relation to visual and material culture - can expand and enrich your research. Working in the Ashmolean's East Asian Study Room, participants will use objects and artworks from the museum's extensive Japanese collections to think about how objects, ideas and cultures are translated across space, time and context. What can we learn from these translations? What do we stand to gain by thinking more closely and laterally about these processes of translation?
The workshop will be led by Polly, along with Dr Clare Pollard, the Ashmolean's Curator of Japanese Art, and Dr Jim Harris, Teaching Curator at the Ashmolean. Participants will also have the opportunity to contribute to our wider public engagement project on ‘Translating Objects’, in partnership with the Ashmolean.
This workshop is open to all postgraduate students in the AMES faculty (not just those studying Japanese) - particularly anyone with an interest in translation and/or visual and material culture. If you are interested in signing up for this workshop, please contact catriona.parry@lincoln.ox.ac.uk by 5pm on Tuesday 10th January 2023 (Tuesday of 0th week). Please note that spaces are limited and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.
Part of Polly Barton’s translation residency in Oxford, supported by TORCH as part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, and the Queen’s College Translation Exchange. https://torch.ox.ac.uk/polly-barton
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