Conference Organizers:

Professors Alexandra Coller & Amin Erfani

(Languages and Literatures, Lehman College, City University of New York)

Location: Virtual via Zoom

Date: October 15-16, 2021

Keynote speaker:

Christopher Winks

(Queens College, City University of New York)

Sponsored by the School of Arts & Humanities at Lehman College,

& the PhD programs in French, Italian, and Spanish, & Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center of

the City University of New York.

Conference Program

(All indications of time in this program refer to US eastern standard time.)

Day #1: Friday October 15

Zoom Link:

https://tinyurl.com/3jmfp39b

Panel #1 (9:30a.m. -11a.m.): Early Modern Italian Translations Across the Genres

• “The Uncanny Isabella: Translating Isabella Andreini’s Letters within and beyond Literary and Social Conventions”

  Paola De Santo (University of Georgia) and Caterina Mongiat Farina (DePaul University)

   

• “The Pleasures and Perils of Translation, Mistranslation, and Non-translation for the Stage and Beyond”

  Eric Nicholson (New York University, Florence)

   

• “Unpacking the Doctor’s Bag: Translating Michele Savonarola’s Mother’s Manual for the Women of Ferrara”

  Martin Marafioti (Pace University)

   

  Panel #2 (11a.m.-12:30p.m.): Translation & Erasure

   

• “Politics of Translation: Mary Shelley’s Safie Between English and Arabic”

  Reyam Rammahi (University of Oxford)

   

• “Erasure as Translation: Tracing the Multilingual Void in SONNE FROM ORT”

  Felix Rössler (University of Тоronto)

   

• “Feigned Foreignness: Monolingual Fictions of Translation”

  Anna Schewelew (University of California, Santa Barbara)

   

  Lunch (12:30p.m.-1:45p.m.)

   

  Panel #3 (2p.m.-4p.m.): Translation as Performance: Politics, Creativity, Ethics, & Mediation

   

• “Translation as Performance and the Eventfulness of the Political” Raquel Pacheco Aguilar (University of Graz)

   

• “Identities Embodied: Artists as Performative Translators” Audrey Canalès (Université de Montréal)

   

• “Outspoken or Invisible? Situating the Translator Amid the Ethical Perils of Translation” Marie-France Guénette (Université Laval)

   

• “Mediating Agents in the Literary Circulation from Dutch into Afrikaans: the case of Daniel Hugo” Marike van der Watt (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) & Paola Gentile (University of Trieste/Stellenbosch University)

Keynote Speaker (4pm): “Translation: The Impossible Necessity?”