The conference ‘Translation and the Periodical’ will be hosted from 13-15 September 2023 at Ghent University in Belgium. The event is a collaborative effort between Ghent University and partners at Uppsala University, NUI Galway, University of Tartu and the University of the Basque Country.
Programme & registration (CLIV-members pay a reduced fee – 50 euro)
On 12-16 December 2023 the international symposium Decolonising Knowledge in the Humanities: Studying Minor Forms in African Cultures of Knowledge, Literature and the Arts will take place at the University of Ghana.
Organisation: Dr. Kwabena Opoku Agyemang, University of Ghana, Legon; Prof. Dr. Eva Ulrike Pirker, Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Prof. Dr. Stefanie Michels, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf
More information: MINOR FORMS AFRIC Announcement
From June 28 to July 2, 2023, Literature Ireland is hosting a series of Summer Workshops in Literary Translation. The workshops will be held via Zoom and are open to literary translators and postgraduate students in literary translation. The English-Dutch workshops will be taught by Caroline Meijer and Jeske van der Velden.
From the 5th to the 8th of September 2023 the VII edition of the European School of Literary Translation will take place, organized by PETRA-E network, British Centre for Literary Translation, Centre of Expertise for Literary Translation (Flanders/Netherlands) and Fondazione Unicampus San Pellegrino (Italy). This Summer School is aimed at anyone who is interested in teaching literary translation, and this year’s theme is Teaching Translation as an Ethical Practice.
For more information about the speakers and the procedure of application, visit the website: FUSP – Traduzione Editoria or check the flyer.
On April 27 (3pm-5pm), literary translator Hilde Keteleer will give a workshop on the Dutch translation of Marta und Arthur (Katja Schönherr) at the VUB, in room PL.11.1.60 (Pleinlaan 11, 1050 Brussels).
On May 4 (1pm -3pm), Dutch translator Trijne Vermunt will give a lecture on the translation of Spanish prose at the VUB (Room E.3.07).
On April 20 (1pm-3pm), Jan de Jager, Argentine-Dutch translator of Ezra Pound and other poets, will give a lecture at the VUB (Room E.3.07) on the translation of poetry.
On Thursday 23 March at 3pm, Emily Apter (New York University) will deliver the CETRA/CERES Fall Lecture 2023 on “Translating Injustice: The Problem of Speech Unfreedom in Claudia Rankine’s Just Us.” The event is organized in collaboration with the Research Group English Literature@KU Leuven.
For those of you working in the fields of World Literature and/or Translation Studies, Emily Apter needs no introduction. She is the author of The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature (Princeton UP, 2006) and Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability (Verso, 2013), and was co-editor of theDictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon (Princeton UP, 2015). Her new book project is entitledTranslating in-Equality: Equivalence, Justness, Rightness, Equaliberty.
The lecture will take place at the Brussels Campus (Stormstraat 2, 1000 Brussels) in room 6306.
Entrance is free, but please register via this link.
