Publishing Institutions and Translation in the Twentieth Century

A European Perspective

Programme 17 January 2009 Location: Museum of English Rural Life, 10-16.30 Welcome and coffee 10.00-10.30 Modernity and Translation in Fascist Italy Discussant: Guido Bonsaver (Oxford) 10.30-12.00 Shirley Vinall Reading Preparing the way for Modernism: what early twentieth-century Italian magazines can tell us Francesca Billiani Manchester Crossing Modernity: Publishers and Translators in 1920s and 1930s Italy Chris Rundle Bologna and Manchester The Translation Invasion: Publishing Translations in Fascist Italy Translation, Publishing Industry, Censorship in Germany Discussant: Ute Wölfel (Reading) 12.30-13.30 Kate Sturge Aston Negotiating popular taste in Nazi Germany: The fortunes of a translated best-seller Gaby Thomson-Wohlgemuth Surrey Publishing Fiction in Translation for the Youth in the GDR Lunch break Afternoon Session Marketing Translation in Post-War Europe Discussant: Daniela La Penna (Reading) 14.30-16.30 Peter Robinson Reading "Ton oeuvre": financial constraints and their significance for the publication of Translated from the Night: Selected Poems by Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo in the Heinemann African Writers Series Tom Boll Bristol The Penguin Translations of Spanish Poetry Nicola Gardini Oxford Translating Ted Hughes General discussion