Transfiction 3
The "Fictions of Translation" conference will be held at Concordia University, May 27-29, 2015. This conference is a follow-up to the first Transfiction conference on “Fictional Translators” and its sequel, Beyond Transfiction, on “Translators and (Their) Authors”.
May 27
Keynote speaker: Klaus Kaindl
University of Vienna
May 27, 2015, 9-10 a.m.
Room: H-767
Chair: Judith Woodsworth, Concordia University
The figure of the translator in literature I, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Room H-767
Chair: Véronique Béghain, Univ. Bordeaux Montaigne
Carol Maier
Kent State University
Reading Mario Satz’s transfictional tribute to Helen Lane: Notes toward a method
Isabelle Poulin
Univ. Bordeaux Montaigne
The figure of the infidel. Fiction and translation in Don Quixote and À la Recherche du temps perdu
Arvi Sepp
University of Antwerp /Free University of Brussels
Moving texts: The representation of the translator in Yoko Tawada’s and Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s stories
Translation and/as creation, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Room H-763
Chair: Xuanmin Luo, Tsinghua University
Teresa Caneda-Cabrera
University of Vigo
A portrait of the translator as an alienated artist: Memories of Joyce’s Portrait in Desnoes’ Memories of Underdevelopment
Raluca Tanasescu
University of Ottawa
Beyond “informational” translation: Jerome Rothenberg and translational poetics
Alexandra Lopes
Catholic University of Portugal
Who’s afraid of Charles John Huffam Dickens? “Universal” literature, Mário Domingues and the anxiety of the unfinished novel
The figure of the translator in literature II, 1:30-3:00 p.m. Room H-767
Chair: Natalia Teplova, Concordia University
Brian James Baer
Kent State University
Gender and translation ethics: Women translators in Russian women’s writing
Gretchen Busl
Texas Woman's University
Challenging the monolingual paradigm: Translation as a theme in exophonic literature
Şehnaz Tahir Gürçağlar
Boğaziçi University
Ahu Selin Erkul Yağcı
Ege University
The figure of the translator in the Turkish novel: A troubled “intellectual”
The figure of the translator in film, 1:30-3:00 p.m. Room H-763
Chair: Christine York, Concordia University
Dominique Pelletier, Alex Gauthier, Mona Sacui Catrinescu
Concordia University
Lost in Karastan: The translation and non-translation of disorientation in a fictional land