Translation, Trauma and Silence
This workshop aims to provide scholars, working in different disciplines and in different languages, with an interdisciplinary forum in which to explore the intersections between translation (understood in its interlingual, multimodal and metaphoric senses), trauma and/or silence.
A Work-in-Progress Workshop 12 April 2013
Issues and challenges to be addressed might include the textualization of trauma and of silence, the mediation of traumatic experience, (mis)communication, distortions, corrections and loss, censorships, exposures and revelations, the ethics of speaking and of knowing, and different cultural coding of silence or trauma. Concerns regarding the limitations, the frustrations and the potential of words will be at the forefront of the workshop.
Contact Dr Sharon Deane-Cox,
Programme for workshop
- 9.30 – 10am: Coffee
- 10am -10.10: Introduction
- 10.10-11.10: Jean Boase-Beier (University of East Anglia):‘Translating Celan’s Silences’
- 11.10-11.30: Coffee
- 11.30-12.30: Dr Iraklis Pantopoulos (University of Edinburgh): ‘Translating the Unsaid in Poetry’ workshop
- 12.30-13.30: Lunch
- 13.30-14.30: Keynote & Discussion – Prof. Máiréad Ni Craith (Heriot-Watt University): ‘The Silence of the Polyglot: an Inarticulate Darkness’
- 14.30-15.10 Dr Emily Lyle (University of Edinburgh): ‘Trauma and the Silencing of the Threatening Voice at the Transition between Levels of Cultural Awareness’
- 15.10-15.30 Afternoon coffee break
- 15.30-16.10 Dr Claire Boyle (University of Edinburgh): 'Shooting in the Middle East: Bearing Witness to War Trauma with Catherine Deneuve'
- 16.10-16.20 Close
Location
This event will be held at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Humanities, at 2 Hope Park Square.