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