2012 Conference Program - The University of Texas at Dallas

10:00 – 11:15 a.m. Roundtable: Knotty Little Things: One Sentence Translation Roundtable(West Parlor)The collective craft and creativity of a group focusing intently on a translation challengecan often work wonders. This roundtable will focus on a series of sentences that eachpresents a particularly knotty translation challenge. We will workshop the sentences as agroup. Your one sentence should be around 35 words in length. In advance of the conference,please email the moderator (aronaji@yahoo.com) a one-page document that includes:the original, the translation, and the brief statement of the translation challenge(s). Sincethere will be no panel of presenters per se, we will attempt to workshop as many sentencesas we can.Aron Aji | Steve Bradburysaturday (cont.)10:00 – 11:15 a.m. Translating the Arab Spring: Its Urgency & Difficulties(Auditorium)Translating the fiction and poetry emerging from the Arab Spring is urgent as the revolutionsare ongoing and their outcomes remain unsettled. This panel brings together translatorswho have worked—or are working—on Arab-Spring-related creative writing by Arabwriters who deal with the issues that led to last year’s cascade of revolts. Translators mayfind it especially valuable to share the translation process and the difficulties and challengeswe face in conveying these complex historical moments through literary translation.Rita Nezami | Edward Morin10:00 – 11:15 a.m. Translating Israel(Lynn Lovejoy Parlor)Every translator of literature deals with issues of language and culture as they pertain tothe process of refitting a text for its new language. But translators working in the Israelicontext and primarily in and out of Hebrew face several additional obstacles, which includepolitics, society, and the strong attitudes, feelings and opinions readers bring to worksproduced by and for Israel. Members of this panel will discuss their methods of addressingand negotiating political, cultural, and linguistic concerns that are specific to the Israelicontext.Evan Fallenberg:Jessica Cohen:Adriana Jacobs:Inga Michaeli“‘My Name’s On the Book, Too’: The Roles of the Translator inDealing with Controversial Material”“Translation Decisions and Readers’ Cultural, Political,and Linguistic Affinities with Israel”“Challenge of Pitching Projects that Don’t Conform to Ideas of ‘Israeliness’”“Translating the Untranslatable: A Case Study Featuring AmitavGhosh’s Sea of Poppies”23