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January 29, 2010
4th Biannual Graduate Student Translation Conference
REMINDER: Deadline January 31
4th Biannual Graduate Student Translation Conference
April 23-25, 2010
University of Michigan
Keynote speaker: Susan Bernofsky
We are seeking graduate student translators to participate in the
4th Biannual Graduate Student Translation Conference to be held
April 23-25, 2010, as part of the University of Michigan's Year of
Translation. We hope to gather emerging and established translators
for a weekend of workshops and roundtables, as well as a keynote
address and reading by Susan Bernofsky, recipient of multiple awards
from the PEN Translation Fund and the National Endowment for the Arts.
We encourage graduate student translators translating from any time
period and any language into English to apply for a place in a
translation workshop. Workshops may include but are not limited to:
post-colonial literature, feminist literature, humor, drama,
translating dead authors, Jewish languages, Classical literatures,
literature from South Asia, East Asia, from the Middle East, from
South America, from Africa, from Europe.
Workshops will be limited to six participants. Each member will have
one text workshop and will be expected to comment on the texts of
the other workshop members.
To apply for a workshop place, please send 5-10 poems or 5-10 pages
of prose, a scan of the original text, as well as a one-page
statement about your motivations for translating the text and
specific challenges it presented you as a translator. In your
application, please indicate at least one or two workshops (from the
list above, or suggest a new one) in which you would be interested
in participating with your work. Please also attach a CV.
Submissions should be emailed to michtranslation2010@umich.edu.
The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2010. Applicants will be
notified of the organizers? decision by February 22.
Please note: a limited amount of financial assistance for travel may
be available in certain circumstances; contact the organizers if you
would not be able to attend without some support. Every effort will
be made to provide accommodation for successful applicants from
> outside the Ann Arbor area; however, we can't guarantee accommodation.
Inquiries may be directed to the conference organizers, Emily Goedde
(egoedde@umich.edu) or Corine Tachtiris (tachtco@umich.edu)
Posted by kekeenan at January 29, 2010 11:40 AM
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