TRANSLATION RIGHT OR WRONG

Friday 6th - Saturday 7th March, 2009 - Trinity College Dublin

The Trinity College Dublin Translation Studies Group is holding a conference entitled TRANSLATION RIGHT OR WRONG, on Friday 6th - Saturday 7th March, 2009. We have two keynote speakers: Josephine Balmer: "Whose Classics?: Transgressing and Recreating Ancient Greek & Latin Texts." Lawrence Venuti: "Translation, Intertextuality, Interpretation." This Call for Papers is to invite colleagues to propose papers, or even groups of papers, that might fit into the title. Suggested themes for the sessions of the conference are listed below, but others are possible and creative responses are welcome. Teaching Translation Language learning; teaching literary translation Translation and Taboo Translation for children True and False (truth to type, to genre, to idiom) Judging Translation Omissions; Praising Translation Multiple Translations/Revisiting Translations Glosses, Paraphrases and Footnotes Corrections Translation and Language Politics Translation into lesser used languages Sacred Texts Bible, Koran, canonical texts Papers relevant to the suggested themes, or at least to the conference title, should be 25 minutes long. Abstracts should be sent to cato@tcd.ie by 31st October 2008. The conference fee will be ¤40, including tea, coffee and a wine reception. The proceedings of the 2005 conference on Translation and Censorship will probably have been launched by the end of 2008; copies will be available at the conference. Further details (including conference dinner, website) will follow later. Cormac O Cuilleanain Associate Professor Head of the Department of Italian Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland