The University of Oxford, Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation, the British Comparative Literature Association, the Oxford Theatre and Performance network, the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, and St Hilda’s College are supporting the conference on 'Translation into Theatre and the Social Sciences'.
Click here to register by the 1 June 2017
Day 2: Saturday 17th June 2017
9.00-9.30 Coffee
9.30-10.30 Liliane Campos (Université Paris Sorbonne-Nouvelle) – Birnam Wood on a Liquid Stage: Fracturing the common space in recent adaptations of Macbeth
10.30-11.30 Translating Shakespeare
Enza de Francisi (Glasgow) – Adapting Ot(h)ello in New Italy: Rusconi, Carcano, and the grandi attori
Reut Barzilai (Jerusalem) – Israeli Hamlet: Staging Intercultural Translation
11.30-12.00 Coffee break
12.00-13.30 Multilingualism in Theatre Translation
Anne Bérélowitch (director, writer, and translator) – Alfred Sant's In the Shadow of the Cathedral: Political and Aesthetic impact of instant MIX adaptation for performances in France and Morocco
Kasia Lech (Canterbury Christ Church University) – They came here and stole our jobs and then they took our language: Polish-Irish-English hybrid and its potential in theatre translation
Nicholas Arnold (Adam Mickiewicz University) – “Sound and Fury' – multi-lingual performance experiences
13.30-14.30 Lunch
14.30-15.30 Margherita Laera (Kent) – The ‘Translation, Adaptation, Otherness’ Project: Towards an Ethnography of Theatre Translation Practice
15.30-16.00 Coffee break
16.00-17.30 Theoretical Approaches II: The Cultural Dimension of Theatre Translation
Nicole Nolette (Acadia University) – From Actor-Network Theory to a Sociology of Theatre Translation Processes: A Minority Case Study from Toronto
Maria Mytilinaki Kennedy (CUNY) – Translating the European Crisis: Theatre Translation as Historiographical Method
Cristina Marinetti (Cardiff) – Intercultural Theatre as a ‘translation zone’: multilingualism, identity and the performing body in the work of Teatro delle Albe
17.30-18.30 Plenary
18.30 Drinks Reception
Organising Committee:
Cédric Ploix, Sarah Grunnah, Giovanna di Martino, Cécile Dudouyt
Click here to view Day 1: Friday 16th June 2017
Comparative Criticism and Translation
Contact name: Cedric Ploix
Contact email: cedric.ploix@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk
Audience: Open to all
