Comparative Literature Symposium - Translation/Tarjama

Event time: 
Friday, April 6, 2018 - 8:00am to 7:00pm
Location: 
THE COMPARATIVE LITERATURE LIBRARY, Bingham Hall See map
300 College Street, 8th Floor
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

Translation/Tarjama:

The Aesthetics and Politics of Translating Arabic Literature

8:45am: Welcoming Remarks (Robyn Creswell, Yale University)

9:00am - 11:00am History and Theory

Rebecca Johnston (Northwestern University) “Literary History in Mistranslation: Thinking Globally with the Nahda”

Hosam Aboul-Ela (University of Houston) “Strategic Foreignization: Translation and Key Words”

Sinan Anton (New York University) “Translating Sargon Boulus”

11:15am-12:30pm Readings in Translation

Sinan Anton

Marilyn Hacker

Kareem James Abu-Zeid

Iman Mersal/Robyn Creswell

12:30pm - 2:00pm Lunch

2:00pm - 4:00pm Contemporary Versions

Kamran Rastegar (Tufts University) ” Translational Infidelity: Paul Bowles’ notes on For Bread Alone

Samah Selim (Rutgers University) “Paratext and Political Translation”

Max Weiss (Princeton University) “Writing and Translating the Syria War”

Coffee break

4:30pm - 5:45pm Roundtable

Marcia Lynx Qualey

Marilyn Hacker

John Siciliano

Elias Khoury