Wednesday, January 11, 2017

CFP: International Winter School for Literary Translation, Jadvapur University, Kolkatta.

January 30 and 31, 2017

A Literary Translation Winter School will be held at Jadavpur University on 30 and 31 January, 2017.

The Winter School is being organised by the Centre for Translation of Indian Literatures (CENTIL), Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, as part of Project Anuvad (UGC-UPE 2: Cultural Resources and Social Sciences), in collaboration with the British Centre for Literary Translation, University of East Anglia, and Writers’ Centre Norwich.

We invite applications for the Winter School. Students, academics, translators—anyone with demonstrable interest in translation may apply.

The Winter School will feature discussions on translation as well as translation workshops involving Bangla, Odia and English. The workshop sessions will aim to encourage consensus translation of literary texts in groups each led by a Group Leader. Texts will be selected keeping in mind the overall theme of the ‘Writing Places’ project.

Each group will work together to produce one shared translation of an extract (poetry, fiction or non-fiction), with the writer joining us where feasible to give an introductory reading and to answer questions. Some of the translations produced during the course of the workshop may be published by the BCLT/WCN/CENTIL.

Experts and writers who are expected to participate in the Winter School include Arunava Sinha, Duncan Large, Jatindra Kumar Nayak, Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay, Sarah Bower, and Tiffany Atkinson.

Interested candidates may apply by filling in the form attached and mailing it to translationwinterschoolju@gmail.com, along with relevant attachments. The application must reach us by January 17, 2017. The forms may also be submitted in hard copy at the CENTIL office on the second floor of the UG Arts Building, Jadavpur University. Outstation participants would have to make their own arrangements for and fund their own travel and stay. (The forms are available online at:

http://www.jaduniv.edu.in/upload_files/scroll_info/1483942549.pdf)

Successful applicants can expect to be informed of acceptance by e-mail by January 19, 2017. There is no registration fee for the Winter School. Application forms are available from the office of the Centre for Translation of Indian Literatures (CENTIL) on the second floor of the UG Arts Building, Jadavpur University. For further queries, you may contact us on 033-24572156.

Sayantan Dasgupta, CENTIL Jadavpur University

Kate Griffin Associate Programme Director,Writers’ Centre Norwich.

Duncan Large, BCLT, University of East Anglia.

Call for Papers: Translation Studies and Children’s Literature –

Current Topics and Future Perspectives

Since the publication of pioneering works by Göte Klingberg, Riitta Oittinen and Zohar Shavit in the 1970s and 1980s, the translation of children’s literature has attracted the attention of many scholars in various fields. On 19 and 20 October 2017, KU Leuven and the University of Antwerp (Belgium) will organise an interdisciplinary conference on Translation Studies and Children’s Literature that aims to investigate the intersection between translation studies and children’s literature studies, offer a state of the art of current trends in the study of children’s literature in translation, and consider future perspectives for this field. How can the concepts, methods and topics used to study children’s literature contribute to the field of Translation Studies? What research questions are opened up by studying children’s books from a Translation Studies perspective? And what potential avenues have only recently been opened up, or remain as yet uncovered? The conference will take place on the occasion of the academic retirement of Prof. dr. Jan Van Coillie (University of Leuven), a pioneer in this area of study.

We welcome proposals on topics relating to promising lines of research integrating Translation Studies and Children’s Literature Studies, including:

globalisation/localisation/glocalisation (including English as a lingua franca)
ideological shifts in the translation process
ethical aspects of translating children’s literature
the reception of translated children’s books
the role of institutions and mediators (translators, publishers, agents, critics etc.)
intermedial translation (including digital picturebooks)
the benefits of applying literary approaches such as digital humanities or cognitive sciences to the study of children’s literature in translation
new impulses from established approaches such as stylistics, memory studies, genetic criticism or reception studies

The conference will be held in Brussels (19 October 2017) and Antwerp (20 October 2017) and will be preceded by a master class on translating Children’s Literature (for Dutch-speaking students) on 18 October 2017 in Brussels. The working language of the conference will be English although simultaneous interpreting can be provided upon request (please indicate in your proposal).

Keynote speakers are:

Gillian Lathey (University of Roehampton London, UK)

Cecilia Alvstad (University of Oslo, Norway)

Emer O’Sullivan (University of Lüneburg, Germany)
Jan Van Coillie (University of Leuven, Belgium)

Please send your proposals (300 words) by March 15th 2017 to Jack McMartin. We will give notice by April 30th 2017.

The organizing committee

Elke Brems (University of Leuven)

Jan Van Coillie (University of Leuven)

Vanessa Joosen (University of Antwerp)

University of Leuven (Campus Brussels)

Hilde Catteau

Theresia Feldmann

Ellen Lambrechts

Jack McMartin

Erwin Snauwaert

Myrthel Van Etterbeeck

Ann Vlasselaers

University of Antwerp

Katrien Liévois

Frauke Pauwels

For More Information:

https://receptionstudies.be/2017/01/09/translation-studies-and-childrens-literature-current-topics-and-future-perspectives/